Sunday, December 4, 2011

5. Hunger and undernourishment in developing countries.

This are the horrid images of truth of what many people in developing countries suffer from.
     
     I would donate $1 million dollars to the people suffering of hunger in developing countries. According to the latest Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) statistics, there are 925 million hungry people in the world and 98 percent of them are in developing countries, There is enough food available to feed the entire global population of 7 billion people. And yet, one in nearly seven people is going hungry. In my opinion, hunger is an intolerable feeling that when it is constant is like the people in developing countries undergo , it is an equivalent to suffering, one that misses a meal feels weak  and deprived of energy, imagine those that pass days, even weeks without any nourishment, the reason is that the body responds to the lack of energy  supplied by food by slowing down its physical and mental activities. In addition, a person that is hungry cannot concentrate their minds, a hungry body does not take initiative, a hungry child loses all desire to play and study. Furthermore, malnutrition weakens the immune system making even common disease such as measles and diarrhea deadly. Today, almost one person in six does not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life, making hunger and malnutrition the number one risk to health worldwide.This is a very serious subject that many are aware of, but do not take any initiative resolve this issue especially when food is wasted, not contributing to the cause in any matter. The one million dollars donated would help fund project that would supply clean water and food packed with nutrition to those families in need ,also, it would assist farmers that lose their crops due to floods, tropical storms and long periods of drought  that cause calamities and consequently affect food security by providing more food to them and their shortage of supplies. These actions filled with ambition, will relief those with a deficiency in food and ameliorate their state of being .
 This video exemplifies the what children undergo when they undergo undernourishment in developing countries  

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