#endhunger

Unless you’ve experienced food poverty, it can be hard to understand the humility, exploitation, and trauma that often come with food insecurity.

I grew up underweight and hungry, exploited simply because I wanted a meal. No one should have to endure that kind of pain.

Poverty carries deep stigma, and being unable to afford food can feel humiliating to admit. But this crisis is not a personal failure, it’s a systemic one.

📞 USDA National Hunger Hotline: 1-866-3-HUNGRY

Arizona Food Banks & Assistance Programs:

🔗 azfoodbanks.org/get-food

🔗 azfoodhelp.org/find-food-now

🔗 communityfoodbank.org/how-we-help/emergency-food

🔗 des.az.gov/emergency-food

Food Planning & Budgeting Tips:

🍽️ nutrition.gov – Food Planning

💡 NCOA: Creating a Grocery Budget

💰 Everyday Cheapskate: Stretch Your Food Budget

🌾 Clemson Extension: Stretch Your Food Dollars

🥗 Half Your Plate: Tips to Stretch Your Food Budget

Arizona Community Gardens & Volunteering:

🌻 Tiger Mountain Foundation – Phoenix Gardens

🌽 Spaces of Opportunity – Phoenix

🍅 Community Gardens of Tucson

🌱 We Are UFE: Certified Community of Gardens

Volunteer or Donate:

🤝 Arizona Food Bank Network – Donate

❤️ Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona – Volunteer

National:

Children sleep with hunger ravaging their tiny bodies, and mothers helpless in tears... Gaza is suffocating with hunger as it is suffocating with bombing. Help us save what lives remain.

ALL GIFTS MATCHED TODAY!

Right now, more people are dying of hunger than COVID.

So our community is doing something about it!

We want to help 200 struggling farmers gain access to irrigation. With your help, they cam grow enough food to feed 50 people. While food aid might help today, your support will help feed people for a lifetime.

Give $10 today and you can help a farmer in Kenya grow enough to feed one person. Better yet, the first $10,000 will be matched! Help us unlock this challenge grant.

Today, somewhere in the range of 821 million people experience the ill effects of hunger. Furthermore, in spite of the fact that this is fundamentally less individuals than the numbers we saw 10 years back, hunger despite everything murders a bigger number of individuals than AIDS, tuberculosis and intestinal sickness consolidated. Every year, around 9 million people die of hunger, according to the International relief agency Mercy Corps. That's more than the death toll of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Hunger-related diseases could double this year due to the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic

On May 28th, we have watched World Hunger Day. It is a push to concentrate consideration on the way that regardless of worldwide advancement, nearly 21,000 individuals despite everything kick the bucket each day from yearning or ailing health.

People don't go hungry on the grounds that the world doesn't create enough nourishment for everybody. As per the world Hunger Education Service, in the course of recent decades, huge development in food creation, alongside improved access to food, decreased the level of constantly undernourished individuals in creating nations from 34 percent to 15 percent. The chief issue is that numerous individuals in the world despite everything don't have adequate assets to buy or develop enough nutritious food.

Poor progress has been made in reducing child stunting, the report says, with nearly 151 million children aged under 5 too short for their age due to malnutrition in 2017, compared to 165 million in 2012. Globally, Africa and Asia accounted for 39% and 55% of all stunted children, respectively. Prevalence of child wasting remains extremely high in Asia where almost 1 in 10 children under five has low weight for their height, compared to just one in 100 in Latin America and the Caribbean. Hunger has been on the rise over the past three years, returning to levels from a decade ago. This reversal in progress sends a clear warning that more must be done and urgently if the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger is to be achieved by 2030. The world is off track to meet its own goal of ending hunger by 2030.

Over the past decade, a global push to reduce hunger and extreme poverty has marked some significant successes, thanks in part to the efforts of numerous international and transnational institutions, foundations, researchers and the private donations and efforts of NGOs to end hunger. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) play a vital role in the fight to end chronic hunger. In 2014 alone, these organizations spent over $733 million in private donations from the public and businesses towards ending hunger and improving nutrition.

Since this blog is brand new I don’t know who will see it but I’m gonna speak anyway . . . Ahem.

So I often hear about how billionaire’s can save the world. I find that fascinating and amazing but I realize that It’s gonna take more than one person to save the world. Money alone won’t solve the problem if there aren’t enough hands to make it move. I see so many countries growing and changing as a whole (*glares at America*) to make the world better but I want to know what it would take to save the world. I don’t just mean it environmentally, I mean it in the humane sense. If we had the billions of dollars to do it, what would we do with it, where would we start . . .

I HAVE A PLAN!!!! (or at least the beginning . . . I think)

1.) Tackle homelessness - so a lot of problems could be solved if people had a place to sleep that wasn’t outside in the dirt, or on the pavement in an alley, or the bench in the park. So if I had a billion dollars, I would take the abandoned towers and hotels and whatever else was big enough and turn it into a place for them to stay. It’s cost efficient because its cheaper to buy what’s already there instead of building homes from scratch. I do like the tiny home idea though. This would be there place of residence indefinitely or until they feel they can stand on their own. Now, how do we get them to stand on their own? Give them work. What work? Hydroponics!! and that begins the next phase -- tackling hunger.

2.) Hunger - give a man a fish, and feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and feed him for a lifetime. So within this same building that the homeless are living in, you have hydroponic stations on each floor with different food growing on each level. This creates jobs for them to do and a feeling of being needed. It’s not incredibly hard work (as far as I know). It feeds the no longer homeless and it feeds the community. Put one or two of these buildings in any city with I guess a population that ranges from 150,000 to 500,000. Maybe every 50 to 100 miles would work better. Now this is starting off in 1st world countries. Countries who have a higher likelihood of making this happen.

The thing that I am debating now is how do we make this happen. Do we wait on a billionaire who will be nice enough to share their fortune? Do we eat the rich? WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO COST SO MUCH?!?!?!? HOW, HOW, HOW DO WE EVEN START THIS?!?!?