Related Web Sites
America’s Second Harvest www.secondharvest.org
"The nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization. Through a network of over 200 food banks and food-rescue programs, America’s Second Harvest provides emergency food assistance to more than 23 million hungry Americans each year, eight million of whom are children."
Bread for the World www.bread.org
A network of Christian voices for ending hunger worldwide. The Web site contains facts about domestic and international hunger. Many Bread for the World tables are posted on the Lexis Nexis Statistical database.
The Hunger Site www.thehungersite.com
A Web site that donates free food around the world each time someone clicks on the "give free food" button.
Save the Children www.sponsor-child.com
Contains quotes and statistics as well as registration for sponsoring a child in another country.
Think Quest http://www.thinkquest.org/library/
Student-sponsored projects and sites. Contains "An End to World Hunger: Hope for the Future" site with a list of hunger facts.
United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN) http://www.un.org/popin/
Reports on world population issues from the United Nations.
World Food Programme (WFP) www.wfp.org
A United Nations organization whose goal is to eradicate global hunger and poverty. The agency provides the logistical support and the food for people in need throughout the world and works to put hunger at the center of the international agenda.
World Hunger Year (WHY) www.worldhungeryear.org
"WHY attacks the root causes of hunger and poverty by promoting effective and innovative community-based solutions that create self-reliance, economic justice and food security." Sponsors the National Hunger Clearinghouse, a centralized and searchable database of food, nutrition, anti-hunger and agricultural organizations.