The end of this forever

I know that it's already been basically 3 months and thats because my blogging has now ended for the rest of time and i wont be posting anything more about hunger :/ But remember, hunger is forever out there till we have ended it so do your best! I'm not here to inform you anymore but there are others which are probably better bloggers then me so help end hunger! Bye ^_^


PS comment if you wish for me to keep posting which i doubt will happen so see you ^~^

Wordles about Hunger

Go to these links to look at a wordle about the hunger games. http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3042197/The_Hunger_Games_by_Suzanne_Collins
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3276980/Hungers_Meaning

Hunger Cartoons

The Hunger made into a Video

Hunger. A movie about an Irish Republican hunger striker Bobby Sands and his last six weeks or his life. This movie portrays a brave Irish man who risked his life to help someone. You may not say that he actually helped but think about it.... would you rather a boy that is hungry and has broken a leg live, or would you help put him out of misery? The Irish man did what he did and put himself in jail and that's when the strike started. You can never truly feel what a hungry person is feeling even though being anorexic is somewhat like that except being anorexic you have a choice but hunger, there IS no choice. Watch these videos beside to find out what Bobby Sand went through, to help make hunger noticed.

Hardships of Nature!

Many things can cause hunger, but the most natural ways to end up having hunger are droughts, floods, and insects!

In this picture a humongous number of locusts swarm a millet field that was luckily just harvested or else it would be devastating.

More than 40 million dollars were spent since October 2003 on locust control, it's mostly provided by locust infected countries. It's natural but we can help in many other ways.

The Hunger in each Country

578 million in Asia and the Pacific
265 million in Sub-Saharan Africa
53 million in Latin America and the Caribbean
42 million in the Near East and North Africa

= 938 million hungry in the whole intire world :(

Its been estimated that 149 million children around the world are underweight, that means 25% of the 938 million people are children who are hungry and up to 17 million children are born underweight annually and that is bad health for our net generation. Help our world, make them happy, and don't be a loser!

For the Future ^.^

"...the United States is leading an effort to reach out to people around the world who are suffering,to provide them immediate assistance and to extend support for food security that will help them lift themselves out of poverty. All of us must join together in this effort, not just because it is right, but because by providing assistance to those countries most in need, we will provide new markets, we will drive the growth of the future that lifts all of us up."
— President Barack Obama

Many people will try to help our next generation. As long as they help to try to stop the growth of hunger they may not succed but you can help yourself. You can support one child and that will make a difference. From a story called The Starfish Story a young man trys to help some starfish that have been washed up on the beach, but there are to many. The starfish litter the beach as a wise man says "But young man, There are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish along every mile! You can not expect to make a difference!" But the young man picks up a starfish and throws it in the water and replies "It made a difference to taht one." You can be like the young man. You don't have to save them all, but help one and you'll make a difference so our next generation will live happly and prosper.

Can you feel the Pain?!

In the book, The Hunger Games it talks about a teenager fighting for her life. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Every year, each outlying district is forced by the cruel Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death – televised for all of the nation to see.

Survival is something the 16 year old girl ,Katniss Everdeen wants. She struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love. Katniss struggles just like many of the people who are hungry today in our society. Lots of children will try to help their parents if it is needed of them, but many do not succeed and they end up dieing themselves. Do you know anyone in Pain? Or have you been in pain yourself? Imagine that pain, except think of it in little children. The vicious, fierce, stomach twisting pain!  It's just like you, as a child being run over by a car, can you live with it?

Fight the vicious pain! Make people, children like your own if you have any, make them happy, so they can live for another year to come. ^_^ 

The Pain Strikes the World and Us :(!

I say to my mom,
mom it's hurting me,
she looks at me and turns back to selling her things,
HELP ME!! I shout, the pain surging through me,
I lie there, clutching my stomach...
whats happening to me?
fear strikes me hard,
people look down at me as if im a piece of trash,
cold, hungry, helpless,
words float through my head,
and there's nothing i can do,
I'll wait, and wait, and wait, but nothing will happen,
I sit there, skinny as a straw,
waiting till i'm saved,
but i know,
it wont happen,
and i'll....
die!

Project Bread's 2011 Walk for Hunger!! Help stop the pain!!

Hunger is causing pain and deaths buts people are trying to help! Join 40,000 people on Sunday, May 1 2011 in Massachusetts for the Walk for Hunger, you can help raise money to start preventing hunger from getting worse. You walk a 20 mile walk to help raise at least $500 dollars to help those in need. In 2010 last year the Walk for Hunger, with 42,000 people raised 3.8 million dollars! Over 1,000 religious organizations, as well as 1,200 corporate teams, 1,200 schools, and 700 friends and family groups participated. Join the Walk for Hunger and help save lives. Find out more information at this sight.http://www.projectbread.org/site/PageServer?pagename=walk_main

The Hunger, the Pain, and the Opposing.

Hunger is the bodies signal that it needs food, and if we've eaten enough food to satisfy our our stomach hunger goes away. Hunger and malnutrition are not the same, although they do go together, they are rife. If you have a family member or knew someone who is a picky eater you worry that they don't receive enough nutrients to keep their body in shape. At least you wont be that concern unless the doctor tells you that they are not on their normal body weight at their age range, their growth is stunted. Overtime finicky eaters will get their bodies required amount of calories and nutrients. Which will result to more or less good health and for you to be worry free.
What if you happen to live in a poor country where food is been deprive from its people. Hunger and malnutrition are vividly seen every where. Corrupt leaders are becoming rich, not voicing out the primary need of its citizen.
Severe malnutrition and hunger can cause chronic disease, that can lead to death. Malnutrition is the bodies lack of important nutrients needed for proper growth, rejuvenation, and protection. A person can be malnourished in a short or long period of time, even people who have plenty to eat can be malnourished. Prolong hunger can lead to malnutrition. But people can be malnourished for reasons that have nothing to do with hunger.
Most of us especially those in developed countries are always on the go, they prefer fast foods and those foods that are processed or chemically preserved. You can be malnourished with out knowing. How much more if you are living in a third world country by which their is a bracket or class of living status, the poorest of the poor exist they are the ones you will see, scavenging trash with the hope they will find left over foods, and they are the ones who happen to eat only once a day, begging for penny to those who pass by just to have enough money to get something to eat. They the kind that badly needed help from us as well as to those whom we elect that are suppose to lead the improvement of humanity, but it turned out to be the opposite. Find more info at this sight.
http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Stand-Against-Hunger-and-Malnutrition&id=514359

2011! The New Year where Hunger is Still Alive!

2011 is a time of opportunity to achieve lasting progress against global hunger and malnutrition. For the United States, it is a time of renewing our commitment to this objective and strengthening partnerships with countries that are eager to work together in this common interest.

The dramatic surge in global hunger as a result of a spike in food prices in 2007-2008 galvanized support in both rich and poor countries for raising agricultural investments to the top of their development priorities. It also brought into focus the long-term consequences of hunger, especially for the youngest children. During the 1,000 days from conception to the second birthday, the consequences of malnutrition are irreversible.

Malnutrition and hunger are one and the same in the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Progress toward MDG 1, eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, is measured by reductions in the number of underweight children. In 2008, the distinguished medical journal The Lancet attracted international attention with a series of articles on maternal and child malnutrition—in particular finding that a third of all early childhood deaths are the result of malnutrition. Nutrition is important in meeting all of the MDGs.

The foods consumed by poor people are predominantly staple grains like rice, sorghum, and maize. These are cheap and fill the stomach to quell hunger pains. But people, especially children, need more than cereals to live a healthy life. Good health depends on dietary diversity: protein from animal products, groundnuts and legumes, and the vitamins and minerals in fruits and vegetables.

http://desertification.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/ending-hunger-and-malnutrition-2011-hunger-report/

Street children by Ginger Betzer

Orphaned, hungry alone,

they ravage the garbage

Pillar through trash cans and waste,

Looking for one morsel, one bite

To hold them through the night

and ease the gnawing hunger and pain.

My brother has seen them,

He's been there....and watched the hunger

Witnessed the pain.

And now he shares it with us....recorded live.

We watch

     armed with soda's and pizza,

and we eat till our stomach's ache......

                  and our soul sift through trash trying to find one morsel of our own humanity

                  holding onto that fleeting moment when we actually feel their pain.... and....

                              going............going........ .....gone.

http://www.helium.com/items/1639927-poetry-hunger

Hunger poetry by April Self

Gnawing away at my insides,
this craving resides.
I hunger for some understanding,
to give in to my soul's demanding.

In the still of the night when dark trickles in,
the cravings begin again.
And I search for some consolation,
in the midst of my hunger devastation.

It beckons my tears to fall in full force,
reveling in its' main course.
At the sorrow that I feel,
makes for pity and sadness a fine meal.

And I wonder at the hunger that plagues my heart,
when will it end and when did it start.
As far back as I can recall,
this hunger has held me enthrall.

When I let myself on it dwell,
I open the gates to an inner hell.
Choosing to be busy as long as I can,
but I'm only human.

Sleep is needed to survive,
but the darkness depends on my loneliness to thrive.
And I lose myself yet again,
as the hunger for understanding takes me in.

Living as well as could be expected,
only my sanity I leave protected.
As the hunger searches my soul,
and begins to take its' toll.

I pray the words to give me peace,
to provide for me this empty hungers' release.
And open the prison that has kept ahold,
and left me alone lost and cold.

Hunger that has haunted me,
I hope I will soon be let free.

http://www.helium.com/items/1017869-poetry-hunger

This is what we eat, and what THEY eat

Here is what we eat all the time that can cause us to look like this. These people eat all the food that the starving people can eat.

 

   

    This how we look when we normally eat. Theres food enough for the hungry.

And this is what starving people have to eat. Nothing, they're forced to eat dirt like the first picture is of mud pies baking under the sun in Haiti.

Would you like to be this?

Can you imagine through yourchildhood, being like this?

 None of you would feel like this because you probably live in a nice happy family. All the food you can eat, and drink. Never in your life will this happen to you. You could help them all, but we choose to ignore it! Now children die, and you could of done something, but you just left it and let them die.

Stop the hunger

Prevent hunger. Save lives. Make families happy all over the world by donating money and stopping hunger. You could prevent all that happens in this video. :) :D ^_^

How is this happening, why?!?!

Every single night, 925 million people go to bed starving.  This number, which has increased in past years due to a spike in food prices in 2007-2008, is obnoxious.  In a world of plenty, how is it that so many have to suffer through malnutrition and hunger pains on a daily basis? 
This is the question, the key focus of the Hunger Report and the many other programs that want to stop the number of malnourished kids.  
“But with a child dying every six seconds because of under-nourishment related problems, hunger remains the world's largest tragedy and scandal,” said FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf. “This is absolutely unacceptable”. I agree. Can you imagine, yourself malnourished, hungry, in pain. Many children live like that all their life untill they end up dieing unless someone, like you can help them. Donate money, donate food, do anything it takes to help. Put yourself in their position and imagine what it would feel like if you were left out there to die!

    

Causes that lead to Hunger

Lots of things in life can cause hunger. Many including poverty, and climate change. Poverty causes hunger because they do not have enough money to get food. Climate change is being viewed current and future cause of hunger. The increase drought, flooding, and changing climatic patterns are putting a shift in crops and farming practices that may not be easily accomplished. Many different food charities are trying to stop world hunger by donating as much food as they can. The target set at the 1996 World Food Summit was to halve the number of undernourished people by 2015 from their number in 1990-92. The estimated number of undernourished people was 824 million people in 1990-92, but later it increased to 1.02 billion people!

It's just not right!!

Here in Canada and US, there is food to feed everyone. But the more we eat the fatter we get especially with all the new greasy foods. In Africa and some parts of Asia many have nothing to eat AT ALL!! Many end up starving and do not get chance to experience life happily, they soon parish and only carrying the memories of the pain and suffering that they endured when they live. Below is a map of the world which shows which parts of the world have obesity and which do not. There is also a list showing the percentages of obesity in that country. Many will not be named because they have no obesity at all. Did you notice that Africa and Asia do not have much obesity? That is because many places have no food what so ever,  however, the places that do have food do not have many fat, greasy foods. They usually eat what they get from their crops like rice. So while we get fatter and wider, people in Asia and Africa get slimmer and scrawnier.

Click on a region to zoom in and then mouseover to view country names.  Show map full screen

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Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	United States:	30.6%
# 2	Mexico:	24.2%
# 3	United Kingdom:	23%
# 4	Slovakia:	22.4%
# 5	Greece:	21.9%
# 6	Australia:	21.7%
# 7	New Zealand:	20.9%
# 8	Hungary:	18.8%
# 9	Luxembourg:	18.4%
# 10	Czech Republic:	14.8%
# 11	Canada:	14.3%
# 12	Spain:	13.1%
# 13	Ireland:	13%
# 14	Germany:	12.9%
= 15	Portugal:	12.8%
= 15	Finland:	12.8%
# 17	Iceland:	12.4%
# 18	Turkey:	12%
# 19	Belgium:	11.7%
# 20	Netherlands:	10%
# 21	Sweden:	9.7%
# 22	Denmark:	9.5%
# 23	France:	9.4%
# 24	Austria:	9.1%
# 25	Italy:	8.5%
# 26	Norway:	8.3%
# 27	Switzerland:	7.7%
= 28	Japan:	3.2%
= 28	Korea, South:	3.2%