Sentence examples for faced hunger from inspiring English sources

Around 25% of people in Africa faced hunger and malnutrition from 2011 to 2013 due to conflicts, droughts and flooding.

It found that only about 2.9% of state households faced hunger in any year, half the figure culled from United States Department of Agriculture surveys.

The report said that about 17percentt of all children in the country, or roughly 12 million, faced hunger in 1999.

Last year, an estimated 10 percent of Greek elementary and middle school students suffered from what public health professionals call "food insecurity," meaning they faced hunger or the risk of it, said Dr. Athena Linos, a professor at the University of Athens Medical School who also heads a food assistance program at Prolepsis, a nongovernmental public health group that has studied the situation.

The World Food Program estimated earlier this month that as many as 14 million people faced hunger in southern and eastern Africa amid the driest season the region has experienced in more than 30 years. .

The excitement of being free and able to decide where to go to and what to do disappeared quickly as he faced hunger and violence.

But the reality is the reverse – people face hunger, disease and violence.

"The lower part of society, when facing hunger, will not wait," he said.

It is, after all, the people who are facing hunger who have the real answers to the problem.

David McAuley, Trussell Trust chief executive, says nobody should ever go hungry, but facing hunger at Christmas is especially hard.

"The Trussell Trust is always open to ideas that could help people facing hunger in the UK.