Hunger and Poverty

HUNGER

Economic Reasons

Inequalities between countries and people

Wars

Epidemics

Natural Disasters

Extreme Poverty

Population

Education

Birth Control

Important Facts:• Over 9 million people die worldwide each year because of hunger and malnutrition; 5 million are children.

•Food wastage is also high: - In the United Kingdom, “a shocking 30-40% of all food is never eaten”;

- In the last decade the amount of food of British people threw into the bin went up by 15%;

- Overall, £20 billion(approximately $38 billion U.S. Dollars) worth of food is thrown away, every year.

- In the U.S. 40-50% of all food ready for harvest never gets eaten.

What did we do for this???

• Charity fairs were held once in a month.• With the money that we collected in the

charity fairs was spent on a school which needed help.

• Support to a nursing home.• A campaign was organized to collect enough

money to buy books and clothes.

• Support to families which are destitute.• A charity fair organization with UNICEF.

• Pet bottles were turned into fibre and then turned into coats and distrubuted to the

chidren who are indigent.• An international project about hunger.

• Working with exchange students to develop economical sitation of a village.

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Committee Members

• İpek Eraydın • Gizem Kayar• Asya Şahinkaya• Sedef Öztürk• Melissa Kaslowski• Aylin Yasa• Buse Bilgişin• Nihal Bengisu Mete• Gamze Gök