Food wastage in Singapore.

1. Food
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2. Food wastage
Singaporeans wasted 788600 TONNES of food last year
That is 140kg of food wasted by a singaporean per year
Food wastage have risen by a whopping 50 percent in a decade

3. How much people can we feed with the wastage?
Lets do some math to see how many people we can feed if the amount of food wasted is rice.
One tonne of rice is 1000 kg of rice, 100 grams of cooked rice gives 135 calories and a average energy
intake for males is 2640 calories.
So
(10 x 135 x 1000 x 788600) divided by 2640 is
403,261,363.63636363636363636363…
Thus the food wastage in 1 year in singapore can feed an estimated 403 million people for 1 day which
means that we could feed the whole singaporean population 72.8 times!

4. Hunger 500
Founded by Joseph Henry, a Masters of Public Health (MPH) Candidate at the
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), started a run to raise awareness on
hunger and poverty issues. Henry was inspired to take on the challenge of the
Hunger 500 run after attending the World Hunger Summit in Alabama.Joseph also
had a love and passion for running from young and he decided to use it and run
for the people suffering from hunger. The main goal of Hunger 500 is to increase
people’s awareness about hunger and to raise a minimum sum of $100,000 to be
donated to the United Nations Food World Programme to help make a difference
in their lives.Joseph and his team began a 17 day run on 9 February 2011 to start
running from the White house Washington, DC to the University of Guelph in
Ontario, Canada.

5. Impact of Hunger 500
Hunger 500 impacted the world by raising awareness on the issue of hunger and
the necessity for people to come together to tackle the issue on world hunger It
also helped out the people suffering from hunger in many countries like Africa, etc.
It also inspired even more people to donate through online donations and made
the people all over the world know that hunger is indeed a real problem.

6. Conclusion
We learnt that we could not take the things that we have for granted,example:
Food, We also learnt that for any project to be a success, example Hunger 500,
large amount of time is needed to be invested in the project.