It has been quite alarming to me to see the amount of good food being thrown in the bin each day here at school. (The Photo above shows the Croissant, Biscuits and Sandwich that were dumped yesterday - maybe you recognise them?) We have talked about it and I hope that students start to realise the cost and effort that goes into providing them with school lunches! I have worked in schools where students werren't even lucky enough to come to school with lunches, so it concerns me when students are throwing away food that many children aren't lucky enough to get at all!! Hopefully we can see some improvements here soon... some eye opening statistics below that have been highlighted to students...
The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- In the time you have taken to read this blog page today at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.
Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger
It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.
One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night.
Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.
Every year 15 million children die of hunger
statistics taken from http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm
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