#How NGOs contribute to Goal 1: Fighting poverty on the ground

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Today, somewhere in the range of 821 million people experience the ill effects of hunger. Furthermore, in spite of the fact that this is fundamentally less individuals than the numbers we saw 10 years back, hunger despite everything murders a bigger number of individuals than AIDS, tuberculosis and intestinal sickness consolidated. Every year, around 9 million people die of hunger, according to the International relief agency Mercy Corps. That's more than the death toll of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Hunger-related diseases could double this year due to the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic

On May 28th, we have watched World Hunger Day. It is a push to concentrate consideration on the way that regardless of worldwide advancement, nearly 21,000 individuals despite everything kick the bucket each day from yearning or ailing health.

People don't go hungry on the grounds that the world doesn't create enough nourishment for everybody. As per the world Hunger Education Service, in the course of recent decades, huge development in food creation, alongside improved access to food, decreased the level of constantly undernourished individuals in creating nations from 34 percent to 15 percent. The chief issue is that numerous individuals in the world despite everything don't have adequate assets to buy or develop enough nutritious food.

Poor progress has been made in reducing child stunting, the report says, with nearly 151 million children aged under 5 too short for their age due to malnutrition in 2017, compared to 165 million in 2012. Globally, Africa and Asia accounted for 39% and 55% of all stunted children, respectively. Prevalence of child wasting remains extremely high in Asia where almost 1 in 10 children under five has low weight for their height, compared to just one in 100 in Latin America and the Caribbean. Hunger has been on the rise over the past three years, returning to levels from a decade ago. This reversal in progress sends a clear warning that more must be done and urgently if the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger is to be achieved by 2030. The world is off track to meet its own goal of ending hunger by 2030.

Over the past decade, a global push to reduce hunger and extreme poverty has marked some significant successes, thanks in part to the efforts of numerous international and transnational institutions, foundations, researchers and the private donations and efforts of NGOs to end hunger. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) play a vital role in the fight to end chronic hunger. In 2014 alone, these organizations spent over $733 million in private donations from the public and businesses towards ending hunger and improving nutrition.

“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by one was hungry, and you gave him something to eat, One was naked and you clothed him. One was homeless, and you provide him shelter.” Small contributions can create big change.