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GAMBIA Pop: 15m Life Exp: 53yrs 14 conferences 1475 members |
KENYA Pop: 31m Life Exp: 47yrs 50 conferences 528 members |
ETHIOPIA Pop: 66m Life Exp: 45yrs 7 conferences 48 members |
SIERRA LEONE Pop: 5.5m Life Exp: 45yrs 34 conferences 495 members |
GHANA Pop: 20m Life Exp: 56yrs 75 conferences 1000 members NORTH |
NIGERIA Pop: 127m Life Exp: 51yrs 492 conferences 3315 members |
ZAMBIA Pop: 10m Life Exp: 37yrs 828 conferences 12,450 members |
CAMEROON Pop: 16m Life Exp: 54yrs 14 conferences 26 members |
MALAWI Pop: 10m Life Exp: 36yrs 17 conferences 255 members |
TANZANIA Pop: 37m Life Exp: 51yrs 92 conferences 1965 members |
ZIMBABWE Pop: 12m Life Exp: 36yrs 200 conferences 500 members |
BOTSWANA Pop: 2m Life Exp: 36yrs 6 conferences 52 members |
UGANDA Pop: 4m Life Exp: 43yrs |
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PovertyOne sixth or more of our human family lives in poverty. It is inconceivable that there should be some 800 million people going hungry in a world that has the resources to provide for that most basic of all human needs.
Chikwawa, in southern Malawi has suffered from drought over the last two years causing extreme food shortages and hunger for the people. In one village called Pende which had 82 families, there was little food left and families were surviving on less than one meal a day.
Veronica is from Pende and has 7 children. The hunger in her area was affecting her family but now she has access to a communal garden that grows vegetables. She also received seeds and tools to help her with the work. In the past she was too reliant on one crop. She now realises that learning how to vary the crops she grows is important, as her family will not be devastated again if the rains fail. A little goes a long way
| You can make a differenceThe world we share is no different today. In the 47 "least developed" countries of the world, mainly in Africa, 10% of the world's population subsists on less than a half of a percent of the world's income. Some 40,000 people die from hunger-related causes every day.
 Click to enlarge Twinning is about help, that is spiritual, moral and material. Every SVP council and conference can get involved. In the past year the Society in Ireland has raised money for famine in Zambia, malawi and Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe your money set up an urban feeding programme, in Zambia - an emergency food programme for those threatened by famine, and in Malawi - your support helped farmers repair and replant their land after drought. HIV/AIDSEthiopia is home to many treasurers and majestic landscapes. It is the oldest independent country in Africa and one of the oldest in the world, with well over 2,000 years of recorded history. It is one of only two countries in Africa that has never been colonized. Ethiopia, with just one percent of the world's population, contributes nine percent of worldwide cases of HIV/AIDS. Almost 1.2 million people have died from the disease already and 750,000 children have been orphaned.
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