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Famine in Africa

Charities such as  Self Help bring simple and effective innovations to farming, managing natural resources and helping people access basic services like clean water, healthcare and education. Approximately 80% of Africans live in rural areas. Their options to improvelivelihoods are largely restricted.Real and lasting change can only be achieved by enabling and empowering local people, so that they have the tools, the training, and the necessary supports to break the cycle of famine and need.  More than 41 percent of people in sub-Saharan Africans live on less than $1 per day. 32 percent are greatly undernourished.

Famine in India

It is commonly supposed that famines in India are due to the failure of the crops and that the crops are cut of by the sudden droughts which sweep over the entire country. But when in Southern India alone six millions have perished by starvation in one year famine it is clear that the cause for famine in India is more than just crop failure. There were 14 famines in India between the 11th and 17th century. Famines were localized and it was only after 1860, during the British rule, which famine came to signify general shortage of food in the country. In the latter half of the 19th century, there were approximately 25 major famines across India which killed between 30 and 40 million people.

Famine is everywhere.

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