Tuesday, May 25, 2010

18 million poor people die every year from extreme poverty.
More than 50,000 people die every day.
About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age

Ways to solve world hunger:

Distribution
The majority of food is produced in economically more developed countries such as USA, but those countries that are really in need of their share of the food to solve their hunger problems, cannot afford the high prices that these farmers charge and can get from other richer countries.
How to solve: encourage national governments and state departments to subsidize the purchase of food by less economically developed countries. Less economically developed countries are able to increase food supplies, while farmers are still able to gain competitive prices for their produce.

And World Debt Cancellation


Bread for the World
http://www.bread.org/hunger/
Bread for the World members write personal letters and emails to urge congress to end world hunger. Working through churches, campuses, and other organizations, they engage more people in advocacy. Each year, Bread for the World invites churches and groups across the country to take up an Offering of Letters to Congress on an issue important to hungry people.
People place these letters in the offering plates during church services, prayerfully offering them to God before sending them to Congress.
For many, it is their first time communicating with their members of Congress.
Topics wrote to congress:
-Strengthen child nutrition programs.
-Protect tax credits for low-income families.


Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Great Leap Forward

-1958 the government of China came up with the Great Leap Forward
-supposed to be a plan for China’s population to transform into a communist society.
-Individual farming was forbidden and food rationing was introduced by the government.
-Rural Chinese people were left with less than 250g of grain per day
-caused famine
-20 million deaths


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-A lot of the famine and starvation is in the third world countries.
-Don't have enough money and resources to keep their people well fed and healthy.
-Even though there are still people who are starving and homeless in the first world countries, they still receive some kind of aid from the country they live in.

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Every year 15 million children die of hunger
-3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
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To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.