The World Food Program says for the first time in history, the number of hungry people worldwide will exceed one billion this year.

The huge amount of people facing food insecurity has prompted the U.N. organization to appeal to individuals for the first time. WFP launched the Billion for a Billion online campaign Saturday to get one billion people living in the developed world to give $1 a week to the campaign at www.wfp.org/1billion.

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