Poverty and Hunger In Mexico

By Ethan Bleau, Madison Carrell, Lauren King, and Mia

Lozano

Hunger In Mexico
- Around half of the population lives in poverty: about 10% of people
live in extreme poverty
- The number of people in poverty has mainly been increasing since
2006, when 42.9% of people were below the national poverty line.
- More that 20 million children live in poverty with more than 5 million
living in extreme poverty, according to fusion, the United Nations
Childrens Fund.
- Starvation took over 90,000 lives in Mexico since 2001.

Organizations that are helping

The Hunger Project
They get the local community to help themselves by teaching them
how to farm and by providing them with support.
Alcance
Collaborates with the Mexican government to establish many
microfinance networks

Our Campaign
To embrace the idea of throwing food Mexicos way, we thought it
would be clever to throw tomatoes at the Spanish Department Staff. It
is also fairly ironic that there is such thing as a tomato festival in Spain

What will we do with the money raised

With the money raised from this event, we will donate 100% of the
money to Alcance due to the fact that we believe that the microfinance
networks built and maintained by Alcance will benefit those in hunger
more.

Bibliography
"Our Approach - The Hunger Project." The Hunger Project Our Approach Comments. The Hunger Project, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2016. The
authors, members of The Hunger Project, show us that there is a very real and a very drastic problem in the world about world hunger. And
these humanitarians use resources donated by the giving of thousands of individuals to help these starving countries support themselves.
They empower the people to rise and fend for themselves and then maintain to help them until they are self sufficient.

Freedom from Hunger: Poverty and hunger in Mexico. The Borgen

Project RSS2. N.p., 09 nov. 2015. Web, 23 April 2016 this website
explains a very good cause and what they do with all the money they
raise. They use all the money to help get people food and shelter.

"Poverty Home." Poverty Home. N.p., n.d.

Web. 25 Apr. 2016.
According to the most recent estimates, in 2012, 12.7 percent of the
worlds population lived at or below $1.90 a day. Thats down from 37
percent in 1990 and 44 percent in 1981.
This means that, in 2012, 896 million people lived on less than $1.90 a
day, compared with 1.95 billion in 1990, and 1.99 billion in 1981.
Progress has been slower at higher poverty lines. Over 2.1 billion people
in the developing world lived on less than US $ 3.10 a day in 2012,
compared with 2.9 billion in 1990- so even though the share of the
population living under that threshold nearly halved, from 66 percent in
1990 to 35 percent in 2012, far too many people are living with far too
little.