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For each word you get right, 10 grains of rice are donated to hungry people
through the United Nations.
After yesterday, a totall of 1,712,371,750 grains was donated!
The rice is distributed by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP).
What else can I do to help end hunger?
Here are two key things you can do to help end hunger. Both are free and easy to do.
- Add your name to the One Campaign,
where several million people have already joined together “as One”
to end hunger and extreme poverty.
If enough people join, dreams for a better world can be made into reality very quickly. - The United Nations estimates that the cost to end world hunger completely,
along with diseases related to hunger and poverty, is about $195 billion a year.
Twenty-two countries have joined together to raise this money by each contributing 0.7% (less than 1%) of national income. Some of the countries have already met this goal.
Others are being a little slow, but this can be fixed.
You can see how the countries are doing here.
You can print a letter to support your country’s participation here.
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