Statistics: World Hunger and Missions
Here are the statistics I shared yesterday about world hunger and missions in the sermon "A Budget for the Edges." Most of the data was gathered from IMB.org and worldhunger.org.
$8 – pays for a trip from a missionary in Lesotho, Africa to visit a village in a truck named “Miss Lottie” that was purchased with Lottie Moon Christmas offering funds. Almost every visit results in someone coming to know Christ.
$150 pays for one week of fuel in Chile as our missionaries help clean up from an earthquake.
In Zambia 5,500 people die every day from AIDS. $120 pays for a medical missions family from IMB to live there for a day.
In Bangladesh
• $0.50 will buy a songbook of indigenous hymns.
• $1 will provide a meal for one person attending a leadership meeting. Since these are rural farmers, if they don’t work, many don’t have money to eat.
• $1 will buy a complete Bible for a new believer. • $10 will cover the costs of a team taking the JESUS film to remote villages. LMCO gifts from last year bought a portable projector and generator for showing the film.
• $30 will send one village pastor to a week-long training event with seminary-educated and field-experienced instructors.
$850 a week supports a missionary on the field in Russia.
Sewing Classes
Widows and poor women with no work or literacy skills are learning to sew in order to sell goods at a local market and in turn provide food for their families. They're also taught reading and writing through Bible stories and proverbs. Since they are unable to work while taking the classes, the women are provided a small food stipend. Each woman who completes the training receives a sewing machine. Follow-up ensures the women are able to sustain their financial needs. According to project directors, about 50 women have come to faith through this ministry.
Example costs:
• $ .82 per day provides the food stipend for one woman
• $4 provides cloth for one woman
• $35 provides one sewing machine
Malaria Treatment Plants
Malaria is the number one cause of death in a very rural area of Africa. Sixty percent of the population have more than a half-day walk to the nearest clinic for treatment. A plant, Artemisia annua, has proved nearly 100 percent effective in treating malaria. Southern Baptist missionaries are distributing these plants to farmers and families, who are also taught how to grow the plant so they won't be dependent on others for treatment.
Example cost: 25 cents per plant
Education and Food Project
Impoverished children involved in tutoring sessions are provided one nutritious meal a day, five days a week. This project serves more than 200 children. The children have gained weight and teachers have noted improved health, ability to pay attention, study habits and grades. Children also are taught responsibility, and parents have reported that the children are taking on more responsibilities at home. The Gospel has been shared with more than 1,000 people, and a weekly house worship service has started. A nearby community with similar human needs has seen the results and is starting a similar program.
Example cost: 41 cents provides one meal per child per day
Agriculture Project
About 60,000 rural villagers cluster in one area of Europe. Despite the group’s size, their ethnicity blocks them from receiving government assistance. Villagers are being taught how to use sheep to support their families. Many villagers are opening their doors to allow field personnel to also teach them Bible stories.
Example cost: $122 provides one sheep
Water Wells
Clean drinking water is essential to overall community health. Most people think of digging a well, but other systems such as water tanks or rainwater catchment systems provide the same result - clean water.
Field personnel consider climate, local stability and resources, the depth needed to drill and other important factors to determine the most appropriate system for a particular area. These factors also determine the cost of a water system and vary widely from country to country. World Hunger Funds are providing clean water to many communities throughout the world. Here are a few examples:
Central Asia
In Central Asia World Hunger Funds provided for the drilling, completion and hand pump installation of 10 water wells in several villages. Field personnel developed good relationships with village elders, who shared additional water needs in nearby locations. These water projects have resulted in the Lord leading five men to profess their faith in Jesus.
Example cost: approximately $3,400 per well
Middle East
Three hundred water tanks are being provided in a Middle Eastern country affected by civil war. Field personnel work with local residents to install the tanks and are also welcomed into homes so that they may share the Gospel. Approximately 10,000 people are benefiting from the project.
Example cost: Approximately $150 per tank
Africa
Thirty water storage tanks with a capacity of 10,590 gallons each are being provided in an African country. Approximately 25,000 people will benefit with improved health for many years.
Example cost: Approximately $1,590 per tank
There are 1 billion 32 million undernourished people in the world right now.
There are 1 billion 160 million overweight people in the world right now.
- 1.02 billion people in the world do not have enough to eat. This means one sixth of humanity is undernourished.
- Hunger and malnutrition are still the number one risks to health worldwide.
- Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes - that's one child every 5 seconds.
- In 2008, nearly 3 million children died before they reached their fifth birthday due directly or indirectly to hunger and malnutrition.
- It is estimated that 684,000 child deaths worldwide could be prevented by increasing access to vitamin A and zinc.
Domestically
- An estimated 35% of poor families in the U.S. are forced to choose between buying food and paying their rent or mortgage.
- Nearly half of all families headed by a single mother are food insecure.
- In our nation's cities, 1 in every 4 people in a soup kitchen line is a child.
$4 – buys a Bible in native languages for the people of North Africa
$8 – pays for a trip from a missionary in Lesotho, Africa to visit a village in a truck named “Miss Lottie” that was purchased with Lottie Moon Christmas offering funds. Almost every visit results in someone coming to know Christ.
$150 pays for one week of fuel in Chile as our missionaries help clean up from an earthquake.
In Zambia 5,500 people die every day from AIDS. $120 pays for a medical missions family from IMB to live there for a day.
In Bangladesh
• $0.50 will buy a songbook of indigenous hymns.
• $1 will provide a meal for one person attending a leadership meeting. Since these are rural farmers, if they don’t work, many don’t have money to eat.
• $1 will buy a complete Bible for a new believer. • $10 will cover the costs of a team taking the JESUS film to remote villages. LMCO gifts from last year bought a portable projector and generator for showing the film.
• $30 will send one village pastor to a week-long training event with seminary-educated and field-experienced instructors.
$850 a week supports a missionary on the field in Russia.
Sewing Classes
Widows and poor women with no work or literacy skills are learning to sew in order to sell goods at a local market and in turn provide food for their families. They're also taught reading and writing through Bible stories and proverbs. Since they are unable to work while taking the classes, the women are provided a small food stipend. Each woman who completes the training receives a sewing machine. Follow-up ensures the women are able to sustain their financial needs. According to project directors, about 50 women have come to faith through this ministry.
Example costs:
• $ .82 per day provides the food stipend for one woman
• $4 provides cloth for one woman
• $35 provides one sewing machine
Malaria Treatment Plants
Malaria is the number one cause of death in a very rural area of Africa. Sixty percent of the population have more than a half-day walk to the nearest clinic for treatment. A plant, Artemisia annua, has proved nearly 100 percent effective in treating malaria. Southern Baptist missionaries are distributing these plants to farmers and families, who are also taught how to grow the plant so they won't be dependent on others for treatment.
Example cost: 25 cents per plant
Education and Food Project
Impoverished children involved in tutoring sessions are provided one nutritious meal a day, five days a week. This project serves more than 200 children. The children have gained weight and teachers have noted improved health, ability to pay attention, study habits and grades. Children also are taught responsibility, and parents have reported that the children are taking on more responsibilities at home. The Gospel has been shared with more than 1,000 people, and a weekly house worship service has started. A nearby community with similar human needs has seen the results and is starting a similar program.
Example cost: 41 cents provides one meal per child per day
Agriculture Project
About 60,000 rural villagers cluster in one area of Europe. Despite the group’s size, their ethnicity blocks them from receiving government assistance. Villagers are being taught how to use sheep to support their families. Many villagers are opening their doors to allow field personnel to also teach them Bible stories.
Example cost: $122 provides one sheep
Water Wells
Clean drinking water is essential to overall community health. Most people think of digging a well, but other systems such as water tanks or rainwater catchment systems provide the same result - clean water.
Field personnel consider climate, local stability and resources, the depth needed to drill and other important factors to determine the most appropriate system for a particular area. These factors also determine the cost of a water system and vary widely from country to country. World Hunger Funds are providing clean water to many communities throughout the world. Here are a few examples:
Central Asia
In Central Asia World Hunger Funds provided for the drilling, completion and hand pump installation of 10 water wells in several villages. Field personnel developed good relationships with village elders, who shared additional water needs in nearby locations. These water projects have resulted in the Lord leading five men to profess their faith in Jesus.
Example cost: approximately $3,400 per well
Middle East
Three hundred water tanks are being provided in a Middle Eastern country affected by civil war. Field personnel work with local residents to install the tanks and are also welcomed into homes so that they may share the Gospel. Approximately 10,000 people are benefiting from the project.
Example cost: Approximately $150 per tank
Africa
Thirty water storage tanks with a capacity of 10,590 gallons each are being provided in an African country. Approximately 25,000 people will benefit with improved health for many years.
Example cost: Approximately $1,590 per tank
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