World Hunger

What can you do to help fight World Hunger

hockeyyy20 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:47:49 +0000

There are many things that you can do to help fight world hunger. One thing you can do is eat less meat. According to the website, www.thenation.com’s list of ten things you can do, for every pound of meat, it requires 16 pounds of grain to feed the animals. The amount of food used to feed the livestock is enough to feed the world’s hungry with some extra.

Another action that you can take against this is to conserve energy. Last year, the cost of fuel has rose over the last year. To get the food and supplies to the people who need it, they need some money send the supplies. With natural disasters, and other emergencies, they need to share the need between the different people who need it. With this extra money, it wil enable specified emergency supplies to be sent to the hungry nations.

Organizations that help fight the cause

hockeyyy20 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:23:55 +0000

One of the most well-known organizations that helps fight this cause is UNICEF. UNICEF stands for United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund. This organizations created by the United Nations to help governments, especially in developing countries by improving the health and education of the children. They supply people with clean water and nourishment to help fight malnutrition.

Another organization that helps fight the cause is World Vision. This is a group that allows you to sponsor a child for about a dollar a day which provides the child with food water and education. Last year alone, they used 87% of their profits to help the people who need it.

Statistics About World Hunger

hockeyyy20 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:28:28 +0000

Stats:

Of the 6.7 billion people who live on earth, almost half of the people live on less than a dollar a day

1.2 billion people live on less than one dollar a day

Most of the worlds poor live in just two countries, China and India

Even though there is enough food to feed all the worlds people, still over 800 million suffer from chronic malnourishment.

Video About World Hunger

hockeyyy20 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:22:09 +0000

Warning: Some of the pictures may be a little disturbing

Other causes of world hunger

hockeyyy20 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:15:38 +0000

One other cause that contributes to hunger is nature and the draughts that occur. A draught is a span of time when there is little or no rainfall. In this time, farmers are unable to produce a great amount of crops that it usually does. In some places where these crops are the only source of food, they don’t get any. An example of this is in Ethiopia during the 80′s and 90′s. During that time tens of thousands of ethiopians died and many others suffered form malnutrition and from disease.

World Population Affecting Global Hunger

hockeyyy20 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:06:30 +0000

In the last 50 years, the world’s population has doubled and it is projected to increase again in the next 50 years. With so many people, the number of resources produced in some areas are not enough to supply everyone there and not enough resources are being sent to aide them. Also, most of the supplies are going to the people who can afford this. As the population grows, and the gap between the upper, middle , and lower class widens, less and less help will be sent to the lower class.

What is World Hunger???

hockeyyy20 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:04:40 +0000

What exactly is world hunger? It is the people in the world who cannot get the foods and resources they need on a daily basis. Hunger is a very serious issue in the world today and it causes many deaths every year. Throughout the world, 963 million people are hungry. Everyday, almost 16 thousand children are killed from hunger related problems. This is 1 child every 5 seconds. These numbers are incredible and something needs to be done about it.