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Food Prices Continue to Rise in Poorest Countries

01 Mar 2024
Hunger Crisis
Press Releases

A price shocks report released today by World Vision reveals that for the most vulnerable, food prices are still higher than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic. Analysis of food prices from September 2023 shows that a food basket that would cost 1.5 hours of work in Australia, Ireland, or Singapore would take the average worker 36 days to earn the money to purchase in Burundi and 25 days in the Central African Republic. 

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The impossible choice between family or food: Maryam’s story

22 Feb 2024
Hunger Crisis

At just 15 years old, she was forced to make the difficult decision of leaving her childhood home in search of food. The hardest part? Her mother was too sick to make the journey, so she was forced to flee with her 10 younger siblings alone. All in hopes of finding enough food and water to survive. 

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The Battle of Rohingya Refugees for Food - Story of One-Year-Old Saiful & His Mother Khadija

25 Jan 2024
Hunger Crisis

Every day, Khadija’s heart aches as she sees her one-year-old son, Saiful, losing weight. All that she can feed him is some soggy rice and bland vegetables. Each time he struggles to eat, she carefully saves the leftover because wasting even a grain of rice is not an option for them. 

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The Search For Food - The Story of Sunday & Blue

25 Jan 2024
Hunger Crisis

Every day, nine-year-old Blue carries his four-year-old brother Sunday to school so that he can get his one meal of the day. 

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Towards a Climate Resilient Future at Youth For Change Conference 2023

10 Jan 2024
Youth and Schools

On 28 October 2023, youths and young adults from nine countries (Cambodia, Canada, Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam) gathered at the Lifelong Learning Institute, Singapore for the eighth edition of our annual Youth For Change Conference (YFCC).

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