COMPASSION AFFECTED COUNTRIES
Every region where Compassion works is affected by the crisis and food shortages and rising inflation are crippling families. Compassion assisted centres are paying more to provide meals for children, and other centre activities are suffering because of the increased food costs.
Download the following fact sheets to see how the global food crisis is affecting the following regions:
Just $14 can help feed a child in Haiti for an entire month.
In Haiti, riots and violence followed protests over high food prices. In Bangladesh, one kilo of rice which three months ago cost just 31 cents has now nearly doubled to 56 cents.