Rotarian, Adele Harrington indroduces daughter, Mackenzi Habig

For Westfield Academy and Central School Junior Mackenzi Habig, she believes in one program that is beneficial worldwide - conquering hunger. She presented "The Fight Against Global Hunger" in which 60 students from WACS, Brocton, Sherman and Chautauqua Lake schools participated in a 30-hour hunger gathering recently.

Mackenzi's PowerPoint presentation covered five major facts about global hunger: a child dies from hunger-related causes every 13 seconds; most of the 20,000-plus child deaths every day are 100 percent preventable; around the world, 925 million people are hungry; the poor spend most of their money on food; and these kids' lives can be saved.

Included in the statistics were six "hunger hotspots around the world" where hunger exists. In order, starting with number one, they are Afghanistan, Burundi, Haiti, Kenya, United States and Zimbabwe. It came as a surprise to have the U.S. included. Anyone wishing further information may call WACS.

Introduced by her mother, Rotarian Adele Harrington, Mackenzi described ways to counteract worldwide hunger.