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Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week 2009

Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week 2009. villanova. The average American spends $100 a day…. Half the world lives on less than $2 a day…. Half the food produced in the United States goes to waste… . 800 million people go to bed hungry every night….

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Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week 2009

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  1. Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week 2009 villanova

  2. The average American spends $100 a day… Half the world lives on less than $2 a day…

  3. Half the food produced in the United States goes to waste… 800 million people go to bed hungry every night…

  4. 14% of Americans dropped out of high school in 2007… 72 million children of primary school age were unable to attend school…

  5. If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you have more access to health care than the one million who will not survive this week from completely manageable complications. • If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of the world.

  6. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are in the top 8% wealthiest people in the world. • If you can read this message, you are more educated than the 2 billion people in the world who cannot read at all.

  7. 6 people would own 59% of the wealth of the entire community43 live without basic sanitation18 live without an improved water source14 cannot read 13 suffer from malnutrition 1 is near death, 1 is near birth 7 are educated at a secondary level12 have a computer, 3 have an internet Village of 100 People If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following.

  8. CNN Report (October 15, 2009) • 1 billion undernourished people • More hungry people than ever recorded before • Recent financial crisis Global Hunger • World Foods Program: $3 billion required to combat world hunger (September 16, 2009) 1 in 6 people in the world is hungry.

  9. Nearly all of these undernourished people live in developing countries. • 1 billion undernourished separated by region: • Developed nations: 15 million • Asia & Pacific: 642 million • Sub-Saharan Africa: 265 million • Latin America, Caribbean, Near East & North Africa: 95 million

  10. Global Hunger Index • Worldwide progress in reducing hunger has been slow • GHI remains at alarming levels in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

  11. Global Hunger Index • 29 countries have “extremely alarming” or “alarming” GHI scores • Highest levels in Burundi, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sierra Leone • In most of the countries with high GHI scores, war and violence have given rise to poverty and malnutrition • Nearly all of these countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa

  12. Global Hunger Index • Current food and financial crisis will have implications for food security • Poor and hungry are most vulnerable • What needs to be done? • Nutrition interventions: school feeding programs, programs for early childhood & maternal nutrition • Reducing gender inequality

  13. Global Hunger: Burundi (Central Africa) GHI: 38.3 Extremely Alarming • 88% live on less than $2/day • Only 19% of population has food security • 46% chronically malnourished

  14. Global Hunger: Democratic Republic of Congo (West Africa) • Food prices have increased 52% since 2008 • Ongoing conflict over rich natural resources • Looting of crops by military occupation GHI: 42.7 Extremely Alarming

  15. Global Hunger: Haiti (Caribbean) GHI: 24.3 Alarming • 78% live on less than $2/day • 1/3 of newborns are underweight • Extreme poverty, social instability • High rates of HIV & Tuberculosis

  16. Global Hunger: India GHI: 23.7 Alarming • 35% are food insecure • Nearly 50% of the world’s hungry live in India • 9 out of 10 pregnant women are malnourished • Due to • uneven food distribution • natural disasters • low education rate

  17. Global Hunger: Yemen (Middle East) GHI: 29.8 Alarming • Over 1 in 3 Yemens suffer from chronic hunger • Half of children are chronically malnourished • Economy highly dependent on oil export

  18. Global Homelessness • Over 100 million people worldwide are homeless • 20 to 40 million in major urban areas • Developing world • India, Brazil, parts of South Africa, Philippines • Violence: forced evictions, ethnic conflict

  19. Global Homelessness: Malawi (Southern Africa) • Rapid urban growth rate • Cities ill-equipped • 90% of urban population lives in slums

  20. Global Homelessness: India • Home to 63% of South Asia’s slum-dwellers • Public perception of the homeless is extremely negative

  21. Global Homelessness: China Did you know that hundreds of thousands of homes were destroyed to accommodate for the 2008 Beijing Olympics? • Recent economic progress has not helped alleviate poverty for everyone • 150,000 homeless children live in China’s cities • May 2008 earthquake left 5 million homeless

  22. Poverty in the United States • Poverty in the United States is measured by the "poverty threshold" • set by the U.S. government • Roughly 13 to 17% live below the federal poverty line at any given point in time • 40% fall below the poverty line at some point within a 10 year time span • 58.5% of Americans will spend at least one year below the poverty line at some point between ages 25 and 75

  23. Poverty in the United States • 2007 poverty threshold for a three member family is$17,070 • Poverty and Race The US Census declared that in 2007 the poverty percentages by race were: 8.2% of all white people 24.7% of all black people 21.5% of all Hispanic people • Poverty and Age The US Census declared that in 2007 the poverty percentages by age were: 18% of all people under age 18 10.9% of all people 19-64 9.7% of all people ages 65 and older

  24. Homelessness in U.S. 1.6 to 1.7 million people under the age of 18 will experience homelessness each year… That’s more than the population of Philadelphia…

  25. Homeless Veterans • 131,000 veterans are homeless on any given night • Conservatively, 1 out of every 3 homeless men has put on a uniform and served this country

  26. Why is there homelessness? Causes of homelessness • Poverty from a lack of good jobs and minimal government assistance • Lack of affordable housing and inadequate housing assistance • Lack of affordable health care • Domestic violence • Effects of war including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder • Mental Illness • Substance Abuse

  27. Pennsylvania • Today, 1.3 million Pennsylvanians, including 440,000 children, live in poverty • 1.2 million people experience hunger each year in Pennsylvania, and an estimated 90,000 are homeless

  28. Children in Philadelphia • Philadelphia has one of the highest child poverty rates in the US • 1 child out of 3 live at or below the federal poverty line

  29. In Our Backyard • It is estimated that there are approximately 4,000 people who are homeless on any given day in Philadelphia

  30. Recession • In 2008, over 3 million jobs were lost and the average person suffered a loss of 10% of their income • Those who live below the poverty line are still under conditions worse than those currently suffering from the recession

  31. Ways to help

  32. Organizations • Where all the donations going? • Three main charity organizations: • Oxfam • Catholic Relief Services • Bread for the World

  33. Oxfam • Provides tools to enable people to become self-supporting, together with individuals and local groups • Saves lives • Helps people overcome poverty • Fights for social justice • Opens markets of international trade where crafts and produce from poorer regions of the world can be sold at a fair price to benefit the producer • Confederation of 14 organizations working with over 3,000 partners in more than 70 countries worldwide • http://www.oxfamamerica.org/

  34. Catholic Relief Services • Provides relief in emergency situations and helps people in the developing world break the cycle of poverty through community-based, sustainable development • Assistance is based solely on need, not race, creed or nationality • Founded in 1943 by the U.S. bishops • Provides assistance to 80 million people in more than 100 countries and territories around the world • http://crs.org/

  35. Bread for the World • Collective voice on college campuses and in churches urging our nation’s decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad • This advocacy-based organization works to create change in the systems that allow hunger and poverty to persist through education and lobbying of public officials • http://www.bread.org/

  36. On-campus Groups • Amnesty International: part of the world wide human rights organization that monitors human rights and seeks the release of prisoners of conscience and an end to the death penalty • Blood: Water Mission: a non-profit organization striving to build wells in depressed regions of Africa, in order to provide clean water for villagers living in poverty • Bread for the World: a nationwide Christian movement that seeks justice and change for the world's hungry by lobbying our nation's decision makers through letter-writing, education and awareness, and meeting with public officials • Fair Food :the members of Fair Food are committed to trying to understand how food affects all aspects of our lives and the world

  37. Weekly Opportunities • St. Francis Inn Soup Kitchen:Mondays 3:00 – 7:00p Serve Philadelphians by waiting, busing tables, dishing out food, cleaning dishes, helping hand out desserts, working the door giving hand-outs and sometimes organizing the extra food • Northern Home for Children: Mondays 5:45 – 8:00p Tutor and interact with at risk children • Northern Light Community Center:Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays 3:15 - 6:00p Help out with the after school program • St. Agatha’s Soup Kitchen:Wednesdays 4:45- 7:30p Prepare and serve food and clean up • St. Barnabas Women’s Shelter:Thursdays 6:00 – 8:00p Work at a shelter for women and children as a role model for the children • Habit for Humanity:Saturdays Work to build and rehabilitate simple, decent houses alongside the homeowner (partner) families SIGN UP IN CAMPUS MINISTRY

  38. Little Things Visit these sites: www.thehungersite.com Click daily to donate cups of food www.freepoverty.com Practice your geography to donate water www.freerice.com Improve your vocabulary to donate rice www.searchkindly.org Use this search engine to donate money www.goodsearch.com Use this search engine to donate money

  39. Contact • William Cuomo • William.cuomo@villanova.edu

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