Believe it or not, Asian nations are suffering more from hunger than in Africa.  Asian countries are more apt to keep their national failures secret and not seek aid under such circumstances, so other countries are not aware of their plight.  World hunger statistics are staggering, as revealed below by the World Food Program:

578 million in Asia and the Pacific
239 million in Sub-Saharan Africa
53 million in Latin America and the Caribbean
37 million in the Near East and North Africa

Did you know that more than 2.5 million children die every year from hunger or hunger-related causes?  That's another child lost every seven seconds.  According to the World Food Program, hunger kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. 

Raids are becoming more frequent in some areas of Africa where hunger is a daily fact of life.  In one 2011 raid in Kenya, 38 people died.  A month later, another raid left 10 people dead.  Hunger is closing schools in Africa.  Rather than study, children of desperate families must work to survive.  They carry water for gardens and hunt for rats or insects to eat.

Entire families are torn apart by hunger.  Desperate fathers leave home to search for work an never return.  Mothers die after going without food, so their children can eat, and 6,800 children are lost to hunger and hunger-related causes every day. 

Every day, an estimated 3,500 girls under the age of 15 are traded, sold, or given away into marriage.  Some are only 11, 12, or younger.  They are often forced into marriage because their families cannot afford to feed them.  Most will spend their lives in poverty, giving birth to one child after another. 

Desperate hunger is turning once prosperous villages into ghost towns.  Entire populations have walked away from their homes in hopes of finding food elsewhere.  Tragically, hundreds of thousands of them wind up in crowded, squalid camps where each day is a battle for survival. 

Jesus said, "I was hungry and you gave Me meat; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.  Then the righteous answered Him, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry and fed You, or thirsty and give You drink?  When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You?  When did we see You sick or in prison and came to You?  The King will answer and say to them, Verily, I say to you, inasmuch as you have done it unto the least of these My brethren, you have done it unto Me" Matthew 25:35-40. 

World Vision is a Christian-based organization working throughout the world to provide wells and clean water for the thirsty and feed the hungry.  Maybe you are unable to go and provide this assistance to those who are suffering, but World Vision is there.  Please consider making a donation which will last throughout eternity to www.WorldVision.org.  Jesus also said, "Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where moth and rust does not corrupt and where thieves do not break in and steal" Matthew 6:20.