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Article: 29,000 Children Lost Every Day More Than Half Million American Teens to Participate World Vision's 30-Hour Famine, February 23-24.
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- January 18, 2007
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SEATTLE, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a deadly humanitarian crisis in Darfur and natural disasters all over the world may dominate the news headlines but behind the scenes and far from the spotlight, hunger and preventable diseases claim the lives of 29,000 the world's children a day.
Right now, 852 million people around the world don't have enough to eat. Chronic poverty, affecting half the world's population is a root cause of hunger. Nearly 3 billion people live on less than $2 a day. Annually, more than 10 million children under the age of five die from disease and malnutrition as a result of hunger.
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