Hunger: A New York Times By Rachel Cernansky

Poverty is one of the main causes of child hunger. Most people that live in poverty can't afford to buy food. All the money they have goes to housing bills.

Starvation is defined as a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake which is below the level needed to maintain life. It's been said that one out of every nine people suffer from hunger and that's estimated to about 805 million people. Starvation is a serious problem because an average 9 million people die from it each year yet nobody seems to do anything about it. Especially us Americans. Us Americans represent 5 percent of this world's population yet we consume about thirty to sixty percent of everything.

In Tracie McMillan's “The New Face Of Hunger”, McMillan argues “... Millions of working Americans don’t know where their next meal is coming from… One-sixth of Americans don’t have enough food to eat… Today more working people and their families are hungry because wages have declined.” McMillan points out that hunger in America today is different from Great Depression-era. She goes on to say that more than half of hunger household in America are white and two-thirds of those typically in a full-time job. She mentions that the government changes the term “hunger” with the term “food insecure”. She observes that number of people going hungry has grown increasingly to forty-eight million by 2012.

Hunger is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as 1) an uncomfortable feeling in your stomach caused by the need for food 2) a great need for food (Merriam-Webster, n.d.). Since we all have experienced these feelings since as far back as we can remember and have associated then with hunger or being hungry, what exactly does that mean? Does that mean we should question all of the times we believed that we have been hungry or does it mean that there is no way there could be such thing as false hunger?

However, despite all the perks that Kenya upholds, they face the issues of having incompetent leadership and poor governance. Dealing with these issues Kenya is struggling to handle economic growth, both natural and man created problems (Stanford). Choosing the issue was enriching with knowledge and gives me the opportunity to explain all of the issues under one accord. The purpose to explain the issues of Kenya and how they are corrupt was well needed to be addressed because the people of Kenya should not take corruption as “normal” and treat it like it is a part of everyday life.

INTRODUCTIONBackground Sub-Saharan Africa continues to present the world with its most formidable developmentchallenge. During the last two decades the number of the poor in Africa has doubled from150 million to 300 million, more than 40 percent of the region’s population. About one thirdof the region’s population lives in countries affected by or emerging from conflict. Moreover,HIV/AIDS continues to threaten African lives and livelihoods. Africa is the only region thatremains behind on most of the MDGs. On current trends it will fall far short of meeting the2015 targets, (The World Bank, 2005).Africa has come a long way in its efforts to achieve sustainable development. Lessons of thecontinent’s development over the last two decades consistently highlighted the need for moreintensive efforts to effectively address some of its major development constraints. Acombination of ineffective policies, outright mismanagement (in some countries), heavyexternal debt burden, poor governance, and conflicts precipitated the massive economicdecline in the early 1980s. The recovery in the latter half of the decade was partly due tomajor economic policy reforms as well as growing socio-political pluralism and economicstability, which were consolidated in the decade of the 1990s. Yet, much still remains to bedone, as the African continent entered the 21st century faced with numerous developmentchallenges. Some of these challenges

Kenya is a third world country in Eastern Africa, with bright opportunities to develop into an african superpower. They have been a state since 1963 and before Kenya was independent, they were apart of the British Empire. Kenya’s capital is Nairobi, which also happens to be the center of industrial activities and the economy. Kenya’s development appears to be heading in a good direction as their GDP is rising, as well as their population to furthermore expand the economy. Although most people are working in agriculture the country is beginning to become more industrialized to boost the economy. The Republic of Kenya is a growing and expanding country with a positive outlook which could make them a powerhouse of the economy and change in Africa.

Africa is one of the most underdeveloped and poorest continents in the world. More specifically Kenya is one of the poorest countries out of all of the continents. It is said that in Africa having psychological trauma such as PTSD has become the norm. To make matters worst, almost half of Kenyans are below poverty with a life expectancy of about 54 and an enormous birthrate. With the birthrate being so high, most of the populations of Kenyans are children. On the other hand, because of the lack of money, Kenya has become the 9th highest place where disease is present in the world.

Unfortunately, Kenya is facing economic, health, and environmental challenges due to continued drought conditions, and these challenges threaten their progress. The two biggest factors keeping Kenya from achieving rapid economic growth are corruption and

Kenya has an extremely diverse nature to it. On one hand, Kenya has an unemployment rate of 40 percent and 43 percent of the people living in Kenya are impoverished, and on the other hand Kenya has a plateau region that is very fertile and the people in Kenya grow a variety of agriculture products, such as beef, eggs, poultry, coffee, tea, corn, wheat, and sugarcane. Even though Kenya has some fertile land, they have been experiencing a severe drought that continues to devastate the economy and when it does rain, there is frequent flooding due to the location of the country. For all of these reasons and many more, Kenya is vastly different, but at the same time quite similar to the United States in not only

Inequality, poverty and social protection: inequality in Kenya has decreased a lot in recent years there are many types of inequality in Kenya such as income inequality, life expectancy inequality, unemployment inequality between men and woman and education inequality. For example in Kenya education inequality is good nearly every child in the central province has an education and attends school however only one out of every 3 children in the north eastern province attend primary school which is still low. Another inequality is the unemployment inequality between men and woman there is 274,000 unemployed women compared to 73,000 men. , F. V. (2012) Heifer international | charity ending hunger and poverty. Available

Throughout the novella Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang the reader is provided with different stories of Chinese immigrant parents and their children and how it is that they all struggle to communicate due to the different languages that are spoken by each member of the family, whether it be music or an actual language. Although the hardship to communicate between parent and child is an important problem to discuss there is a voice that is often left out, the voice of the internal and external struggle that immigrant parents face. An immigrant parent will be faced with more difficulty to assimilate to their new environment or in the case of Min they will reject the ideas of assimilation, they create their own world in which their culture and self’s remains intact. This leads me to wonder why else someone would not wish to assimilate and what obstacles come with rejecting their new environment.

December last year marked the 50th anniversary of the independence of Kenya, our beloved nation. It was a moment of merry making as we all cheered and welcomed the golden jubilee from within and without. Celebrations, from national to grass roots level were set on fire to kick-start this great jubilee when the founding fathers of the nation assumed independence from the British colony. As we celebrated the great milestones achieved by the country, we were challenged from all four corners by unmet goals, which still pose a problem to the entire Kenyans. These challenges include illiteracy, unemployment, corruption, insecurity, amongst others. It will not be surprising enough that the list could grow up to the fiftieth mark, just like the same way we are talking of fifty years of independence. Kenya, of course, is not sailing in this boat alone and as an African child; she is accompanied by many other countries in celebration of their independence and problems too. Many countries across the continent gained their independence in, or after, the 1960’s. This came at a cost of fighting (and employing absolute violence) the Europeans even to the point of shedding blood. Freedom was later achieved and the continent became free as the colonizers hanged up their boots.

It is important to also talk about how we could implement these types of policies in Kenya rather than just saying looks what has worked well in other countries. Kenya’s current population is over 46,000,000 people, which is much less than Brazil’s 200,000,000 population.

Classified as a frontier market, Kenya is the largest and the most advanced economic entity in central and east Africa. However, it is also the least developed country in the world. This article will retrospect and analyze the development path of