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The impact of hunger and famine goes beyond physical suffering. Over time, every aspect of normal life is compromised and drastically reduced for entire families and communities. The emotional effects are apathy and irritability, affecting ability to work and socialise. Children are unable to focus and learn, hindering their physical, mental and social development. Whole populations are sometimes forced to migrate in search of food, encouraging political disorder and conflict. Eventually, generations are destroyed, trapped in a life full of misery and insurmountable barriers.

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2/3 of the world’s poor live in Asia. And women are often disproportionately affected by poverty. There are 2 forms of aid that are particularly important to them: Financial literacy and microfinance. Financial literacy involves teaching them how to save, budget, understanding credit and make use of banks and financial institutions. Microfinance lets poor women deposit small savings with reputable financial institutions and get small loans or low-cost insurance to help them expand small businesses.

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There are more than 770 million illiterate adults worldwide, 2/3 are women and girls. In addition, over 100 million children are not even getting primary education. Education is a lifelong asset that empowers people to ultimately improve the socio-economic conditions for their families, communities, countries and future generations. Only through opportunities provided by education can they break the cycle of poverty.

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Hunger affects 1 in nearly 7 people globally. For over 850 million people, hunger is a daily, inescapable reality. Nearly 6 million children die from conditions brought about by malnutrition each year. It accounts for 53% of deaths among pre-school age children in the developing world.
 
     





Today, about 180,000 people around the world will leave the countryside and move to a city. Humans are becoming urban creatures at an accelerating speed. The United Nations calculates that London's population took 130 years to grow from 1m to 8m. Bangkok, Thailand took 45 years. Dhaka, Bangladesh 37. And Seoul, South Korea just 25. In much of Asia, rice is the essence of survival. Poor people in both cities and rural areas spend 1/2 to 3/4 of their incomes on rice - and only rice. Millions of resource-poor farmers eke a living on small parcels of land in remote, mountainous or arid regions. Yet it is estimated they produce as much as 20% of the world's food - largely without the benefit of modern agriculture. Majority of the world's resource-poor farmers are women. They produce more than 1/2 of the food grown around the world. In some regions, as much as 80%. If a girl gets at least 6 years of education, her childbirth survival rate in adulthood will dramatically and consistently improve. The world's poor actually own trillions of dollars' worth of assets. But their houses, plots of land and businesses lacked formal title - and so can't be used to do all the things that people in wealthy countries do to turn a little money into a lot of money. Establishing property rights is a necessary first step.
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