According to the UN Hunger Report, hunger is the term used to define periods when populations experience severe food insecurity and they spend days without eating, due to lack of money, lack of access to food, or other issues. Hunger is strongly interconnected with poverty. People living in poverty, frequently face household food insecurity, use inappropriate care practices, and live-in unsafe environments that have low access to quality water, sanitation, and hygiene, and inadequate access or availability to health services and education - all of which contribute to hunger.

● The world produces enough food to feed all 7 billion people, but those who go hungry either do not have land to grow food or the money to purchase it.

● About 690 million people worldwide go to bed hungry each night.

● In 2010, an estimated 7.6 million children — more than 20,000 a day — died. Poor nutrition plays a role in at least half of these deaths.

● Nearly 98% of worldwide hunger exists in underdeveloped countries.

● Almost 1 in every 15 children in developing countries die before the age of 5, most of them from hunger-related causes

● Women in hunger are so deficient of basic nutrients (like iron) that 315,000 die during childbirth from hemorrhaging every year.

● In 2020, due to the pandemic, millions more got added up to the existing list of people who are already deprived of food.

The first three years of a child’s life is a period of rapid brain development. Inadequate supply of protein, and nutrients during this sensitive period can lead to lasting deficits in Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Development. School-age children who experience severe hunger are at increased risk to the following negative outcomes & affects their Concentration and Memory which will have an impact on their Ability to Learn.