Should Global Superpowers Provide Aid From Corrupt Governments? Essay

What may be hard to see is that hunger is everywhere. Yes, hunger is in Africa and third-world countries, but also in the United States. Childhood hunger is nearly a bigger issue than overall hunger in the United States. Studies show that hunger among children has a higher percentage than hunger as a whole (Feeding America 28). It is found that children suffer from food insecurity in every county in the United States (Feeding America 30). It is easy to sit back and think that everyone has the financial and physical means to find food, but they do not. Over thirty percent of all children (under the age of eighteen) in New Mexico live in food insecure households; this state has the highest percent in the entire United States (Feeding America

Hunger in America happens every year to homeless people,kids, and adults,as sad as it is even new born babies. This could happen to anyone why? There is several reasons maybe some people don’t have the money. What if you were that person how would you live knowing that your child isn’t getting proper nutrition? Many people don’t seem to realize how much this really happens. one in 7 people in the United States face trying and struggling to get food to eat, and more than 12 million American family’s face hunger. Food insecurity is harmful to all people, but it is especially devastating to children. Proper nutrition is what a child’s needs to help with their development or you can say growing. Did you know that while hunger is nonstop - African

“Over 100,000 children under five suffer from acute malnutrition while one child out of three is stunted, or irreversibly short for their age.”(“Hunger”) This staggering statistic is due to one of the world’s biggest problems, hunger. Hunger is a problem that many developing countries face, one of the biggest victims to hunger is the small Caribbean country of Haiti. Hunger in Haiti affects the entire country, from the rural countrysides to the major cities. Though hunger is already a big issue for Haiti, it has gotten worse in the past decade due to the extreme poverty, heavy storms, and natural disasters that the country has faced. “In 1997 some 1.2 million Haitians didn 't have enough food to eat. A decade later the number had more than doubled. Today, that figure is 6.7 million, that goes without food some days, can 't afford a balanced diet or has limited access to food.”(“Goldberg”) Natural disasters and extreme poverty have played large roles in Haiti’s growing hunger problem.

Political turmoil in the United States is difficult to keep up with; however, it is important to pay attention to foreign affairs as well. In the country of Guatemala fifty percent of children under the age of five are severely malnourished, the fourth highest rate of malnutrition in the world. Malnutrition is defined as the lack of proper nutrition, cause by not having enough to eat, causing failure to thrive. Americans need to work together to stop the detrimental effects of malnutrition by focusing on the agricultural, government involvement, and education. By looking at the food created in Guatemala, we can see how these children get their energy.

     Eliam Diamond lives on the shores of Lake Malawi.  Diamond is a weaver, making mats out of dried palm leaves.  A six-foot sleeping mat takes him four days to make and sells for as little as four cents, not enough to buy what little food there is in Malawi.  So he relies on handouts.  A few days ago, Diamond picked up his monthly ration of donated U.S. corn from the World Food Programme (WFP) at the Ngodzi distribution center near his village, carrying home the 110-pound bags tied to his bicycle (Harman).

There are millions of people that wish for peace every day. If those people of today’s world cannot have peace, they want to avoid any form of violence. Canada is a very good example of a peaceful lifestyle. Unfortunately, this state is not common to every country. In 1945, an international organization called United Nations was created in order to try to fix this kind of problem around the world. This is done by intervening in several countries in order to bring peace. Among these interventions, many were situated on the African continent: Sudan, South Africa, Sierra Leone and Somalia are some examples of countries that got the help of the United Nations. What determines the United Nations final decision whether to intervene in African

Hunger has stalked Venezuela for years. But now, it is killing children at an alarming rate. Hospitals are overflowing with malnourished children. Before the Venezuelan economy collapsed, most malnourished children were in hospitals because of abuse from parents. But as the crisis started to intensify, the children in hospitals were there because of starvation. In 2011, there were severe floods in Colombia causing many people to lose their home and food. Colombia has tried to make floating houses Incase of another flood, but they never finished the project. This is one of the many factors of how malnutrition started in Colombia.

Most people in those countries don’t even have enough clothes. According to the Lost Boys videos, they needed donated clothes. People everyday are dying from starvation and diseases. They don’t have the medication they need to survive diseases. We need to help this problem before more and more people are dying. If we don’t do something, the diseases will keep spreading so more and more people will be dying. More and more people will be starving as well.

Not only do they believe that the U.S. should continue to provide foreign aid, but they claim that the current funding level is insufficient and should rise. Calling for an increase in aid begins with the idea that American self-interests are best served by a secure (and grateful) world. Patrick Marshall, who holds a master’s degree in international studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, states “Advocates of a robust aid program…say it is vital in protecting U.S. security interests, spreading democracy, and promoting U.S. exports” (Marshall, 313). For example, stabilizing other nations mitigates the threat of global terrorism.

With the end of the Cold War Era, humanitarian interventionism became an increasing part of foreign policy in the United States, shaping its interactions with other states; furthermore, it is an issue of controversy and has had mixed results. This paper will examine the way in which the United States responded to two different humanitarian crises in the 1990s, one by intervening and one by ignoring the situation. In the case of Somalia, a country struck by famine, the United States chose to act, due to public opinion, the perceived image of the intervention, and the wishes of then President George H.W. Bush. Contrarily, the genocide in Rwanda failed to receive any intervention from the United States, due to changes in public opinion and

Imagine waking up each day, bones obtruding from your body, hopeless. No new opportunities, nothing to look forward too. Sadly for over 795 million people this is what they call reality. One out of every eight people in the world live life in hunger. They go to bed each night starving, only to wonder if they will wake up in the morning. For some people, this is a problem we have no chance at ending any time soon, well how would they know if they have never even tried. As we sit in our kitchens eating breakfast before school, or when we are surrounded by our family at the dinner table, people across the globe are facing another day of starvation, and it's only us who can do something about it.

Geopolitics have played a huge role in humanitarian aid in the current century. Because humanitarian aid is largely sponsored by western countries it poses a huge problem in the form of a “parochial form of theorizing"1 that supports the interests of the richest countries of the world. For the purpose of this essay I will begin by examining the problems that have arisen in the most recent years of humanitarian aid assistance. This arises from conditional aid, whereby donor countries or organizations impose conditions in order for recipient countries to

In recent history, conflicts and civil wars, as well as environmental changes have plagued the country of South Sudan. As a result of fighting and starvation from scarcity of food, a large number of the South Sudanese population has been forced to relocate. The people of South Sudan have little choice but to seek refuge in neighboring countries. In the past two months alone, a new disruption has led to a rise in the number of refugees fleeing to Uganda. The increasing number of refugees have caused worry to the U.N. and its partners because there is not enough resources for everyone. As of late, the U.N. has reported that food rations are low, meaning that refugee are only provided protein, mainly beans as they arrive in camps. The refugees

Talking about Government and Politics is one of the topics that will have something always to talk about. We can talk about government and politics in many ways and create a lot of discussion to talk related to them. Government and Politics is a list that will never end and you can keep talking about that days, weeks, months or even years. For example, we can compare and contrast the different agents of political socialization and the effect they have on the political learning, or we can even describe and evaluate party organization at the local, state and even national levels and determine the recent trends in the distribution of party powers. As well other topics related with government and politics can the relationship between political parties and government or to describe the major influences on one’s political socialization, and how this comes about. All this are great examples to talk about with the community that are really into the government and politics.

Over the last 50 years, the world has struggled to maintain an economic balance and stability, while flourishing countries try to maintain a steady income to support its people and relations with other countries. Therefore, when a continent like Africa fails to maintain a stable government and economy, super powers such as America decide to intervene with its relations. Africa has great potential to become another pillar of the world’s economic structure with its mass amounts of uncultivated land. Unfortunately, corruption and irresponsible governments hinder that progress. Foreign aid while helpful should be limited to a yearly amount because it allows the government to repudiate responsibility and gives room for corruption; it creates a