Hungry in Nevada County
Please Sir, May I Have Some More?
Just The Facts
A Tale of Two Hungers
Supersize Me! Or Where does all the food go?
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4000
How many children in Nevada County are food insecure?
100
A canned food drive.
What is a charity solution to hunger?
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25,000
How many children die every day of hunger or disease resulting from hunger?
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Famine and starvation.
What is the most widely recognized kind of hunger and is responsible for 10% of the estimated 20 million hunger deaths every year?
100
Fed to livestock, not people.
Where does over half the grain grown in the world and half the fish caught go?
200
Dial 211
What is one way you can access health and human service resources for Nevada County?
200
Organizing a fundraiser through the Heifer Project International to purchase a heifer or goat that will provide milk for a family.
What is a social justice solution to hunger?
200
36.2 million Americans
How many people are food insecure and at risk of hunger in the United States?
200
Chronic Hunger – The long-term consumption of too few nutrients.
What is rarely reported on by the media but responsible for 90% of the estimated 20 million hunger deaths every year?
200
Causes include poverty due to unemployment, inadequate wages, unfair distribution of resources, lack of medical care, political disenfranchisement, discrimination, and environmental degradation.
What are some of the major causes of hunger?
300
A coalition that offers emergency food vouchers in a crisis situation.
What is the Emergency Assistance Coalition (EAC)?
300
Working together with other families across the country to participate in a Summer Feeding Program that actually feeds millions of hungry children during the summer when they are not receiving school meals.
What is a charity solution?
300
13 million children
How many children in the U.S. go to bed hungry every night?
300
War
What is the major cause of famine?
300
Governments of developing countries allocate a very small percentage of their total expenditures to growing local food staples instead they grow cash crops like coffee, sugar, tea, cotton, and tobacco which are exported to industrialized countries.
Where does all the food we grow actually go?
400
An emergency overnight shelter that offers hot meals, medical care, showers, laundry, clothing, and job counseling.
What is Hospitality House?
400
Organize a Water Challenge fundraiser through the Water Project and help raise money to build wells to provide clean drinking water for people in South Africa.
What is a social justice solution?
400
India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Ethiopia.
Which seven countries do 65 percent of the world’s hungry live?
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Poor economies
What is the major cause of chronic hunger?
400
A small minority of people control the majority of the world’s farmland.
Why are people hungry if we grow enough food worldwide to feed everyone on the planet?
500
Interfaith Food Ministry, Food Bank of Nevada County, Elks Lodge Project HOPE, United Methodist Church of Nevada City.
What are the four food pantries in Nevada County?
500
Join a Food Not Lawns organization and help turn vacant lots, roof tops, and lawns into gardens where people are taught and encouraged to grow their own food.
What is a social justice solution?
500
A child dies because of hunger and related causes.
What happens every six seconds?
500
Food insecurity.
What is another term for “chronic hunger?”
500
Be frugal, conserve precious resources, eat local whole foods that don’t waste resources through processing, eat less meat, be a conscientious shopper, plant a community garden, continue to learn, help educate others, and speak out.
How can I make a real, practical, everyday commitment to ending hunger?
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