1. Every four seconds, someone, somewhere, dies of hunger.
2. 24,000 people today will die of hunger; 18,000 of them will be children.
3. 500 million people worldwide are chronically malnourished.
4. One of two children live in poverty (1 billion children).
5. 11 million children die each year from preventable causes like malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia.
6. Every year 6 million children die from malnutrition before their 5th birthday.
7. One billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a newspaper or sign their name.
8. 1.2 billion people cannot pour themselves a glass of safe drinking water.
9. 1 in 6 people around the world live in extreme poverty (less than $1.00 a day).
10. Half the world -- nearly three billion people -- lives on less than $2.00 a day.

Pierre Cutler
The Sacramento Executive