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Educate Yourself and Others The numbers are sobering: • More than 842 million people in the world are hungry. • Every day, 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes—one child every five seconds. • In the United States, 14.5 percent Joseph Molieri/Bread for the World of households struggle to put food on the table. More than one in four American children are at risk of hunger. More than one in five children live in households that struggle to put food on the table. Bread for the World’s strength is that it is a collective Christian voice urging our nation’s decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad. We are stronger when we act together in Christ’s name to help our neighbors, whether th