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6 CENTS OF RICE

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August 2012
02:17:00
Hot Wood Art Center
Brooklyn, New York

+ 20 lbs of rice
+ 22 collected rocks 
+ red pigment from India
+ incense 
+ 22 silver spoons
+ twine
+ white sheet 

STATEMENT
6 Cents of Rice calls awareness to the severe poverty throughout India. One tablespoon of rice equates the allotted daily intake for many children within small families in rural India.

A 2007 report by the state-run National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector (NCEUS) found that 77% of Indians, or 836 million people, lived on less than 20 rupees per day (.35 USD), with most working in "informal labor sector with no job or social security, living in abject poverty." The World Health Organization, states that "about 49 percent of the world's underweight children, 34 percent of the world's stunted children and 46 percent of the world's wasted children, live in India." On the other side of the hemisphere, more than 35% of U.S. men and women were obese in 2009–2010 according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Please consider donating directly to UNICEF India at www.unicef.org/india

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