Hunger Awareness

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ONCLUSION
The World as we know it is in a dire situation. It has became wicked and war and starvation have broken out and destroyed homes, food sources, and even people. Even closer to home on a National level there are thousands of people starving. Organizations like Action Against Hunger and Feeding America are a key player in helping this world get back on track to its better ways and helping those that are done back up and walking.
ACTIONS AGAINST HUNGER
Action Against Hunger (AAH) is an international organization to end world hunger. They have over 4600 professional workers staffed in over 40 countries worldwide. There main focus was to save malnourished children throughout the world in this part of the organization they effect over 5 million people and then countless more throughout there other branches of relief. Last year alone they helped over 7 million people in ending hunger and the numerous other branches including clean water, new buildings for schools, and relief after natural disasters (Action).
AAH Has numerous ways to get involved. One way that interested me is anyone can donate old vehicles for them to us or to scrape away and they get a payback of as much as $900. Plus old car gets used to help others when it is of use anymore. There are many other ways to get involved including donating stock giving monthly or even donating just once. Anyone can do this via computer, phone, and even mail (Action).
AAH has a rating of 4 out of 4 by Charity Navigator. They get 86% of there money from donations and fundraisers And charity ranks the 4 out of 4 in how they spend there money. 86% of their money goes towards their effort while 12% goes to the people that work in the program and 2% of their proceeds goes to ...

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...unteer there and help distribute the food and help the families that are in need. They are a very responsible and smart organization. Organizations like this are needed case last year alone 15.9 million people were helped last year and that still wasn't everybody that is in desperate need of these resources(Feeding).
CONCLUSION
Thanks to these organizations the world is slowly coming back from its evil ways. These two organizations have helped in numerous ways including providing shelter, food, and even protection to those in need. Without organizations like these this world will slowly crumble back into its evil ways and innocent people will suffer.
Work Cited
. Action Against Hunger. Action Against Hunger , 2014. Web. 25 Feb 2014.
. Charity Navigator. Charity Navigator, 2014. Web. 26 Feb 2014
. "Feeding America." Feeding America. N.p., 2014. Web. 11 Mar 2014.

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