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The picture you are seeing is one of the most horrific images you could ever view. Its a child starving and suffering, and yes this child might even die. Hard to believe that it is 2009 and this type of suffering is still happening. This is a call to do something. Stand up for the right things in life. Hold off on that new pair of shoes and donate and make an imprint and impact to stop these children that were born into the world not by choice, but now pay the price.

Some mothers choose what their children will eat. Others choose which children will eat and which will die. As World Hunger Relief Week is marked, more people are asking Why are so many people starving and what, if anything, can be done to eradicate hunger?

causes for the rise in global hunger have been documented. They include:

• Surging oil costs have made it more expensive to harvest, fertilize, store and deliver food.

• The rise in droughts and hurricanes worldwide has wiped out crops and made farming more difficult.

• The world is running out of the raw materials water, oil, good farmland needed to keep the food system intact.

Fixing our food system would be similar to weaning ourselves of our addiction to oil. People are going to have to find ways to grow food with less fertilizer and water, and use less energy to store and transport food.

The global economic crisis has caused a spike in world hunger that has left more than a billion undernourished, United Nations agencies said in a new report. It is unacceptable in the 21st century that almost one in six of the world’s population is now going hungry. An estimated 642 million people are suffering from chronic hunger in Asia and the Pacific. An additional 265 million live in sub-Saharan Africa while 95 million come from Latin America, the Caribbean, the Near East and North Africa. The final 15 million live in developed nations.

The number of hungry spiked as the global economic crisis took hold and governments pumped resources into stabilizing financial markets. The move meant smaller investments in agriculture and food distribution.

Feeding 1 billion people might seem like a challenge, but small donations can make a big difference. If a billion Internet users donate a dollar or a euro a week, we can literally transform the lives of a billion hungry people across the world.

TO HELP!!!! http://www.wfp.org/