“The war on hunger is nothing new; Operation Compassion has been waging this fight for more than 15 years by shipping life-sustaining food products,” according to David Lorency, president.
Hunger continues to plague an estimated one billion people – one in five persons around the world. Thirteen to eighteen million people, mostly children, die from hunger-related causes each year. That’s 35,000 people a day, over 1,000 every hour. In the United States, approximately twenty million children go hungry annually.
Hunger is a condition of poverty. Living in poverty puts a tremendous strain on a household budget, adversely affecting the ability to purchase a nutritionally adequate diet. In fact, government surveys show that as income goes down, the nutritional adequacy of the diet goes down as well.
Operation Compassion cannot fight hunger alone. It’s a global problem needing a global solution. To help relieve some of the hunger problems of children so desperately in need, please donate via one of the following options:
Online Donations: www.operationcompassion.org (givedirect button); call your donations to: 423.728.3932 or mail your donations to: Operation Compassion, 114 Stuart Road, NE Suite 370, Cleveland, TN 37312.