Feeding 5K

Forks ready, people! They will be serving free meal next 1st June in College Green. A menu prepared by the Thali Cafe and cooked by Pieminister will promote the issue of global hunger and food waste next Saturday between 1-5pm in the city centre. 

To do my bit on the global hunger awareness, I post a list of facts and figures on world hunger compiled by the World Food Programme:

1. 870 million people in the world do not have enough to eat. This number has fallen by 130 million since 1990, but progress slowed after 2008. 
2. The vast majority of hungry people (98 percent) live in developing countries, where almost 15% of the population is undernourished. 
3. Asia and the Pacific have the largest share of the world's hungry people (some 563 million) but the trend is downward.
4. If women farmers had the same access to resources as men, the number of hungry in the world could be reduced by up to 150 million
5. Undernutrition contributes to 2.6 million deaths of children under five each year - one third of the global total.
6. One out of six children -- roughly 100 million -- in developing countries is underweight. 
7. One in four of the world's children are stunted. In developing countries the proportion can rise to one in three. 
8. 80 percent of the world's stunted children live in just 20 countries. 
9. 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone
10. WFP calculates that US$3.2 billion is needed per year to reach all 66 million hungry school-age children. 

They will be serving free lunch to 5000 members of the public, all made from fresh food that would otherwise have gone to waste. 'Feeding the 5000' (that's how the event is called) comes this year with live music, children's activities, cooking demonstrations and more. Volunteers are needed to help chop vegetables, serve the massive vegetarian curry and other activities. If interested, sign-up here. 

More information: http://www.faresharesouthwest.org.uk/feeding5k/