AHS student working against hunger Albemarle High School (FILE) (Source: WVIR) By NBC29 Newsroom | April 29, 2021 at 5:50 PM EDT - Updated April 29 at 5:50 PM
ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - An Albemarle High School student is encouraging her classmates to help the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.
Now, several other schools are also involved.
“We had a guest speaker come in from the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank and they told us that 1-in-5 people in the Albemarle-Charlottesville area struggle with hunger. I feel like anyone who hears that number would immediately help,” AHS student Katharina Ravichandran said.
Schools have been provided with extra collection barrels from the food bank because they are exceeding the goals they set.
Countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen
Desert locust swarms can eat the same amount of plant-based food as millions of people in a single day. This is devastating for countries already facing food shortages, where every gram of produced food counts.
Read more
In 2020, the desert locust crisis hit the Greater Horn of Africa and Yemen, Southwest Asia and West Africa and the Sahel. FAO led a multilateral effort that enabled governments to treat 1.3 million hectares (ha) of cropland, protecting the livelihoods and food security of more than 20 million people in countries in the Greater Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen, Kenya, Sudan). However, over 39 million people still face acute food insecurity due to persistently favourable breeding conditions for the desert locust, with Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen still at high risk.
Hmmm.
So, the measure of hunger we should be concerned about is death by starvation?
Somewhere in Mississippi children and seniors citizen are hungry. The statistics are overwhelming. Over 160,000 children, about one in four, struggle with hunger, the highest percentage in America. More than half of Mississippi seniors experience regular food shortfalls and almost half of those who are eligible for food stamps (SNAP) do not enroll.
A poor child gets sick and stays home from school so misses his or her free breakfast andr lunch. Oh, but there is food at home. Maybe not. The mother has to go to work and leaves the child with her mother. The poor grandmother, who is having to skip meals herself, isnât expecting to keep the child so no food is available. Oh, but thatâs only for a day or two. No one will starve.
3.4 million more people will be hungry, particularly those in urban centres
WFP estimates that within the next six months, up to 3.4 million more people will be hungry, particularly those in urban centres
Naypyitaw: Within the next six months, 3.4 million people will go hungry, over and above the 2.8 million people considered to be food insecure in Myanmar before the military takeover, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).
With the triple impact of pre-existing poverty, COVID-19, and the current political crisis, hunger and desperation are rising sharply across Myanmar.
WFP estimates that within the next six months, up to 3.4 million more people will be hungry, particularly those in urban centres.