Childhood Poverty

There are 2.2 billion children in the world. About one billion of those children live in poverty. Twenty-eight percent of children in developing countries are considered underweight or "stunted". Less than one percent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 but it never happened. If we spend that much money on weapons and warfare why can't we cut down a little and give money to developing countries and even pay more attention to the United State's childhood poverty level. They've done research that suggests that average families need an income of about twice the poverty level to meet their  basic needs everyday. The national average of kids living under this level is forty-one percent. Half of the world lives on $2.50 or less a day.
World agriculture produces about seventeen percent more calories per person todaythan it did thirty years ago. That's enough to provide everyone in the world with  2,720 calories  per day.  The main problem is that alot of people in the world don't have sufficient land for crops, or income to buy enough food. One out of three people in developing countries have a vitamin and/ or mineral deficiency. The least we can do is send a lot of those people vitamins...?

http://www.nccp.org/profiles/demographics.html
http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20facts%202002.htm