OUR VISION
Is to secure a world without hunger and malnutrition - a world where people of all races can be assured of having good food they need to be healthy and well-nourished. Our vision is a world which provides for and protects the welfare and human dignity. A world in which all children can grow, learn and flourish, developing into healthy, active, caring members of society.
OUR GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
- To provide food to all humanity; irrespective of races, color or tribe.
- To restore and protect human dignity
- To provide vitamin A supplement for growing children.
- Save lives in refugee and other emergency situation.
- Restore hope to the prison inmate, physically challenged and HIV patient.
- To demonstrate the complete virtues of democracy
- To providing door to door food response to the rural dwellers.
- To organizing seminars and workshops on food security and global hunger awareness.
FOCUS
To immortalize the name of our partners.
OUR STRATEGY
To achieve our focus; we must provide nutritional food items bearing the name of our partner.
OUR BELIEVE
We believe that generations will come and go but the FIGHT HUNGER INITIATIVE (fhi) will live forever.We believe that one day; the FIGHT HUNGER INITIATIVE (fhi) shall feed the entire human race- We shall feed Nigeria, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean’s and even the Americans.
OUR PROGRAMS
- Hunger campaign
- Hunger free match
- Manner day
- World food day
OUR INSPIRATION
We are inspired by the tears of over 1.02 billion people who are undernourished through a shortage of protein in the food they eat. This undernourishment is called Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM-from meat and other sources). PEM is the most lethal form of malnutrition/hunger. It is basically a lack of calories of protein. Food is converted into energy by humans, and the energy contained in food is measured by calories. Protein is necessary for key body functions including provision of essential amino acids and development and maintenance of muscles.
A released on October 14, 2009 reveals that1.02 billion people are undernourished- about 15 percent of the estimated world population of 6.8 billion people; Thus, marking a sizable increase from its 2006 estimate of 854 million people. When we look on the faces of children who have been the most visible victims of under nutrition; we have no option than to fight hunger. Research has revealed that Children who are poorly nourished suffer up to 160 days of illness each year. Poor nutrition plays a role in at least half of the 10.9- 15 million child deaths each year- (approximately- 5-8 million deaths). Under nutrition magnifies the effect of every disease, including measles and malaria. The estimated proportions of deaths in which under nutrition is an underlying cause are roughly similar for diarrhea (61%), malaria (57%), pneumonia (52%), and measles (45%). This disease reduces the body's ability to convert food into usable nutrients.
About 32.5 percent of children in developing countries are affected by hunger making a total of one of every three being affected by hunger. Geographically, more than 70 percent of malnourished children live in Asia, 26 percent in Africa and 4 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean. In many cases, their plight began even before birth with a malnourished mother. Under-nutrition among pregnant women in developing countries leads to one out of six infants born with low birth weight. This is not only a risk factor for neonatal deaths, but also causes learning disabilities, mental retardation, poor health, blindness and premature death. Even when the World's agriculture produces 17 percent more calories per person each day than it did 30 years ago, despite a 70 percent population increase. The 17 percent production of more calories of food is enough to provide everyone in the world with at least 2,720 kilocalories (kcal) of food per person in a day. The principal problem is that many people in the world do not have sufficient land to grow, or income to purchase the good food they need in a day
•In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"
•Every year 15 million children die of hunger
•One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S goes to bed hungry every night and five out of every eight do same in Nigeria.
•Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.
•Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide - a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death.
•About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age.
•The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've started reading this report at least 200 people have just died of starvation and over 4 million will die this year.
•One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of five.
•The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Thus hunger in Global problem.
•And at Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger
•Nearly one in four of 1.3 billion people - a majority of humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people.
•3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
•In 1994 the Urban Institute in Washington DC estimated that one out of 6 elderly people in the U.S. have inadequate diet. In Nigeria; the story is fatal.
•In the U.S. hunger and race are related. In 1991 46% of African-American children were chronically hungry, and 40% of Latino children were chronically hungry compared to 16% of white children.
•In Nigeria hunger and poverty are close friends. But we are living in the land of plenty.
•It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.
•The infant mortality rate is closely linked to inadequate nutrition among
Pregnant women. African-American infants die at nearly twice the rate of white infants. In the African continent; infant mortality is thrice the infant mortality of other continent.
•To give food to all humanity- the estimated cost would only amount US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.
•The assets of the world's three richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet.
•For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years.
•Throughout the 1990's more than 100 million children died from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could be prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days!
•In 1997 alone, the lives of at least 300,000 young children were saved by vitamin A supplementation programs in developing countries.
•Today fight hunger initiative have started the journey in Nigeria and it begins from Akwa Ibom.
Monday, November 8, 2010
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0UR CONTACT
Nigerian Contact:-
50 Umoh Uko Street- off IBB
Uyo- Akwa Ibom State.
Tel: +2348038384718, +2348024364833,
Email: fighthungerinitiative@yahoo.com
Send a pledge by calling any of our numbers or emailing us through our email or visiting our office. Remember; you can save one or two people from dying the next second…
SEND A PLEDGE NOW!!!
Save a dying soul from hunger and malnutrition...
0UR CONTACT
Nigerian Contact:-
50 Umoh Uko Street- off IBB
Uyo- Akwa Ibom State.
Tel: +2348038384718, +2348024364833,
Email: fighthungerinitiative@yahoo.com
FAQs
HUNGER
THE HUNGRY
NUTRITION
HUNGER
1 - Is there a food shortage in the world?
There is enough food in the world today for everyone to have the nourishment necessary for a healthy and productive life.
2 - What is hunger?
The sensation of hunger, a lack of food in your stomach, is universal. But there are different manifestations of hunger which are each measured in different ways:
Under-nourishment is used to describe the status of people whose food intake does not include enough calories (energy) to meet minimum physiological needs for an active life. At present, there are 925 million undernourished people worldwide, most of them in developing countries. Malnutrition means 'badly nourished', but is more than a measure of what we eat or fail to eat. Malnutrition is characterised by inadequate intake of protein, energy and micronutrients and by frequent infections and diseases. Starved of the right nutrition, people will die from common infections like measles or diarrhoea.Malnutrition is measured not by how much food is eaten but by physical measurements of the body - weight or height - and age.
Wasting is an indicator of acute malnutrition that reflects a recent and severe process that has led to substantial weight loss. This is usually the result of starvation and/or disease.
THE HUNGRY
Who are the hungry?
Despite the impression you often get from the media, emergencies account for less than eight percent of hunger's victims. Few people realise that there are close to one billion hungry people in the world who don't make the headlines -- more than the combined populations of the United States, Canada and the European Union. They are of all ages, from babies whose mothers cannot produce enough milk to the elderly with no relatives to care for them. They are the unemployed inhabitants of urban slums, the landless farmers tilling other people's fields, the orphans of AIDS and the sick, who need special or increased food intake to survive.
Above all, children, women and rural communities are on the frontlines of hunger.
4 - Where are the hungry?
The percentage of hungry people is highest in east, central and southern Africa. Around three-quarters of undernourished people live in low-income rural areas of developing countries, principally in higher-risk farming areas. However, the share of the hungry in urban areas is rising.
Of the total number of the 925 million chronically hungry people, over half are in Asia and the Pacific and about a quarter are in Sub-Saharan Africa.
5 - Are the numbers going down?
Whereas good progress was made in reducing chronic hunger in the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, hunger has been slowly but steadily on the rise for the past decade, FAO said. The number of hungry people increased between 1995-97 and 2004-06 in all regions except Latin America and the Caribbean. But even in this region, gains in hunger reduction have been reversed as a result of high food prices and the global economic downturn that started in 2008.
Today, one in seven people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life, making hunger and malnutrition the number one risk to health worldwide -- greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
NUTRITION
6 - What are the effects of malnutrition?
Malnutrition covers a range of problems, such as being dangerously thin, being too short for one's age, being deficient in vitamins and minerals (such as lacking iron which makes you anaemic), or even being too fat (obese). It is measured using the following indicators:Wasting is an indicator of acute malnutrition that reflects a recent and severe process that has led to substantial weight loss. This is usually the result of starvation and/or disease. Stunting is an indicator of chronic malnutrition that reflects the long-term nutritional situation of a population. It is calculated by comparing the height-for-age of a child with a reference population of well nourished and healthy children. Underweight is measured by comparing the weight-for-age of a child with a reference population of well-nourished and healthy children. An estimated 146 million children in developing countries are underweight.
7- Are micronutrients important?
Micronutrient - vitamin and mineral - deficiencies are very important, afflicting nearly two billion people worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, deficiencies of iron, vitamin A, and zinc rank among the top ten leading causes of death through disease in developing countries.Iron deficiency is the most prevalent form of malnutrition, affecting billions of people worldwide. Iron deficiency damages a country's productivity and impedes cognitive development.
Source: Vitamin & Mineral Deficiency, a global damage assessment report; Unicef
Vitamin A deficiency is a leading cause of child blindness across developing countries. It affects 140 million pre-school children in 118 countries. Deficiency in vitamin A can increase the risk of dying from diarrhoea, measles and malaria.
Source: Fifth Report on the World Nutrition Situation, 2005 iodine deficiency affects 780 million people worldwide. Some 20 million children are born mentally impaired because their mothers did not consume enough iodine during pregnancy.
Source: Vitamin & Mineral Deficiency, a global damage assessment report; Unicef
Zinc deficiency contributes to growth failure and weakened immunity in young children; it results in some 800,000 child deaths per year.
THE HUNGRY
NUTRITION
HUNGER
1 - Is there a food shortage in the world?
There is enough food in the world today for everyone to have the nourishment necessary for a healthy and productive life.
2 - What is hunger?
The sensation of hunger, a lack of food in your stomach, is universal. But there are different manifestations of hunger which are each measured in different ways:
Under-nourishment is used to describe the status of people whose food intake does not include enough calories (energy) to meet minimum physiological needs for an active life. At present, there are 925 million undernourished people worldwide, most of them in developing countries. Malnutrition means 'badly nourished', but is more than a measure of what we eat or fail to eat. Malnutrition is characterised by inadequate intake of protein, energy and micronutrients and by frequent infections and diseases. Starved of the right nutrition, people will die from common infections like measles or diarrhoea.Malnutrition is measured not by how much food is eaten but by physical measurements of the body - weight or height - and age.
Wasting is an indicator of acute malnutrition that reflects a recent and severe process that has led to substantial weight loss. This is usually the result of starvation and/or disease.
THE HUNGRY
Who are the hungry?
Despite the impression you often get from the media, emergencies account for less than eight percent of hunger's victims. Few people realise that there are close to one billion hungry people in the world who don't make the headlines -- more than the combined populations of the United States, Canada and the European Union. They are of all ages, from babies whose mothers cannot produce enough milk to the elderly with no relatives to care for them. They are the unemployed inhabitants of urban slums, the landless farmers tilling other people's fields, the orphans of AIDS and the sick, who need special or increased food intake to survive.
Above all, children, women and rural communities are on the frontlines of hunger.
4 - Where are the hungry?
The percentage of hungry people is highest in east, central and southern Africa. Around three-quarters of undernourished people live in low-income rural areas of developing countries, principally in higher-risk farming areas. However, the share of the hungry in urban areas is rising.
Of the total number of the 925 million chronically hungry people, over half are in Asia and the Pacific and about a quarter are in Sub-Saharan Africa.
5 - Are the numbers going down?
Whereas good progress was made in reducing chronic hunger in the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, hunger has been slowly but steadily on the rise for the past decade, FAO said. The number of hungry people increased between 1995-97 and 2004-06 in all regions except Latin America and the Caribbean. But even in this region, gains in hunger reduction have been reversed as a result of high food prices and the global economic downturn that started in 2008.
Today, one in seven people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life, making hunger and malnutrition the number one risk to health worldwide -- greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
NUTRITION
6 - What are the effects of malnutrition?
Malnutrition covers a range of problems, such as being dangerously thin, being too short for one's age, being deficient in vitamins and minerals (such as lacking iron which makes you anaemic), or even being too fat (obese). It is measured using the following indicators:Wasting is an indicator of acute malnutrition that reflects a recent and severe process that has led to substantial weight loss. This is usually the result of starvation and/or disease. Stunting is an indicator of chronic malnutrition that reflects the long-term nutritional situation of a population. It is calculated by comparing the height-for-age of a child with a reference population of well nourished and healthy children. Underweight is measured by comparing the weight-for-age of a child with a reference population of well-nourished and healthy children. An estimated 146 million children in developing countries are underweight.
7- Are micronutrients important?
Micronutrient - vitamin and mineral - deficiencies are very important, afflicting nearly two billion people worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, deficiencies of iron, vitamin A, and zinc rank among the top ten leading causes of death through disease in developing countries.Iron deficiency is the most prevalent form of malnutrition, affecting billions of people worldwide. Iron deficiency damages a country's productivity and impedes cognitive development.
Source: Vitamin & Mineral Deficiency, a global damage assessment report; Unicef
Vitamin A deficiency is a leading cause of child blindness across developing countries. It affects 140 million pre-school children in 118 countries. Deficiency in vitamin A can increase the risk of dying from diarrhoea, measles and malaria.
Source: Fifth Report on the World Nutrition Situation, 2005 iodine deficiency affects 780 million people worldwide. Some 20 million children are born mentally impaired because their mothers did not consume enough iodine during pregnancy.
Source: Vitamin & Mineral Deficiency, a global damage assessment report; Unicef
Zinc deficiency contributes to growth failure and weakened immunity in young children; it results in some 800,000 child deaths per year.
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