Eleven million children died last year before they reached their fifth birthday. That's as if every child under five living in the United Kingdom, France and Germany died in a single year. It's hard to imagine.

Why did these children die? Could their deaths have been prevented? For the vast majority of these little girls and boys, the answer is, tragically, YES.

Over 98% of the children under five who died last year lived in developing countries. In other words, these little boys and girls died because they were poor.

For the vast majority of these children, their lives could have been saved by simple things that most of us take for granted - regular nutritious meals, access to clean water, inoculation from disease, and a safe place to live.

Children's Hunger Relief Fund seeks to provide the "simple things" that keep children alive:

We serve an average of 3 million nutrious meals a year.

We sponsor immunization programs to inoculate children from diseases that could otherwise kill them.

We rescue as many orphaned and abandoned children from the streets as we can take in.

We develop village clean water projects for rural villages and schools.