An incredible 24,000 people die from hunger each and every day.

More than 840,000,000 people suffer from hunger. That's about three times the population of the USA. No, this isn't some new famine that just occurred. This is chronic, persistent hunger, which kills 24,000 people every day, or over 8 million each year. Three of four who die are younger than five.

In fact, famine accounts for less than 10% of these deaths. The other 90% are in situations where people live their entire lives without enough food to eat all of the time. They often go hungry not only physically, but due to other factors in their communities are often undernourished mentally.

Starting to wonder why famines are featured news stories, while there's never anything about chronic hunger? Especially since famines represent such a small part of these deaths? It's because famines are not part of everyday life. When a plane crashes and kills 240 people, it's on the news for days. But because 100 times that many deaths occur from chronic hunger every single day, it's not anything special.

What's even worse is that there really is enough food produced globally to feed everyone on the planet. In many countries, distribution of the food is also working just fine. Sometimes, the problem lies at the simple fact that people don't earn enough money to buy food because they lack the education or skills necessary to get a good job.

The number of people that die of hunger each day has decreased 58% from 41,000 in 1977 to 24,000 in 1997. The solutions to hunger exist and are being implemented even as we speak. There is no reason for this senseless death to continue any longer. We need your help to put this to an end, once and for all.