Due credit for their generosity is given to them at the bottom of the page, and we can only hope you will visit their sites often. The vast majority of hungry people live in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. People suffer from chronic, persistent hunger not because there is a shortage of food. The world produces more than enough food for everyone. It has the financial and technical resources to end hunger permanently.
People go hungry because they lack opportunity.
More than 800 million people in the world go hungry. I.e., one in ten households in the U.S. are living with hunger or are at risk of hunger. Nearly 22 million people, including more than 9.1 million children, live in these homes. Besides death, chronic malnutrition also causes impaired vision, listlessness, stunted growth, and greatly increased susceptibility to disease. Severely malnourished people are unable to function at even a basic level.