The number of people going hungry and suffering from food insecurity had been gradually rising between 2014 and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 crisis has pushed those rising rates even higher and has also exacerbated all forms of malnutrition, particularly in children. The war in Ukraine is further disrupting global food supply chains and creating the biggest global food crisis since the Second World War.

• In 2020, between 720 million and 811 million persons worldwide were suffering from hunger, roughly 161 million more than in 2019.
  
  
• Also in 2020, a staggering 2.4 billion people, or above 30 per cent of the world’s population, were moderately or severely food-insecure, lacking regular access to adequate food.

• 49 million children under 5 suffer from malnutrition. 149 million are stunted while 40 million are overweight.
  
  
• 45% of all child deaths worldwide are from causes related to undernutrition. That’s 3.1 million children each year.
  
  
• 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world.

For only $45 you can help feed a family of 5 for the month of Ramadan.  Your donation will help families in Bangladesh, Gambia, India, Jammu & Kashmir, Kenya, Mali, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestine, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, and Sri Lanka.