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/