UPDATE! 300 children die of hunger, every hour of every day. Can you please help Save The Children's work to stop this - and sign their petition?

[AnnMumsnet]

Save the Children have asked us if we can help them change the fact that 300 children die of hunger, every hour of every day - even though there's enough food in the world for everyone.

What do you think? There's a petition here which they'd love you to sign - but they also want your thoughts on what they should be telling the G8 (the annual gathering of first world governments), who are meeting next week and actually have the power to change things.

So, if you could change the world so that no child died for lack of food - what would you do? Please do post your suggestions or questions here, and don't forget to let us know if you've signed the petition.

If you want to help spread the word about this via Twitter, Facebook etc - please feel free to use the hashtag: #breakthechain with #G8 if you want.

Thanks
MNHQ

Have signed after spotting ripishere's thread in Chat.

Done and bumped.

Signed after seeing ripishere's thread in chat

done.

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Signed also after seeing ripsis thread :)

Signed.

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Well, my thread was deleted because I can't prod people to come over here with a link.
I'll have another go but be a bit more cryptic this time?

I think that's nuts - you can't even do a link ?

• to point people in the direction of a thread for taking action to save children's lives - 300 children dying from hunger every hour. I was thinking that's 5 children dying every minute around the world - and from this tragic cause alone.

How awful for each of those mothers too

No, and I'm getting a battering for my repost . I've asked for it to be deleted.

Well good for you I say - for all your efforts to raise awareness on this rips

Thank you !

If we get slapped wrists for anything we can take it for the sake of those children, hey !

Signed and shared.

Done

We've just tweeted the link again, too

Signed

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I've signed and shared - I hope it helps.

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I have signed. It's hard to comprehend that people are still dying of hunger in this day and age.

Humans have advanced in so many ways, and some of our scientific and technological achievements are startling, yet we still haven't found a resolution to this most basic problem. It's time we made it a priority.

Signed.

We have email class lists at my dc's school - so I sent the link to them - they're not mnetters (or not admitting it to me anyways:)) but quite a few have emailed to say they've signed. Please feel free to send the link to anyone you know - the more the merrier

Signed and shared :)