A typical Poulin Family Saturday includes smells of pancakes and butter, fresh air accompanied with yard work, and lots of homework. On one Saturday in June, my mom stopped us in stride and reminded us that this Saturday we would be packing meals with Feed My Starving Children. I didn’t know what to expect and honestly I spent more time thinking about what I would wear (picking out my outfit) to/for the event than what I would actually be doing there. When we got to Calvary E Free Church, the FMSC staff showed us a video about chronically hungry children around the world and how Feed My Starving Children provides nutritious meals to these children…so they can survive. It was hard to look at the pictures of the malnourished kids. It was too painful…For two hours we packed rice, soy, vegetables, and vitamins in small bags and loaded them onto a semi...I went home and totally forgot about this experience. The emotion I felt during the true stories was just that…emotion.
I’ve been brought up in a Christian home, knowing that I wasn’t created to live life my way, but to live it God’s way…serving others. However, I knew millions of children were dying, but I didn’t care enough to change my habits and do something about it.
Today I will explain what causes world hunger, and how you can make a difference.
Natural disasters, poverty, and war all cause famines. Hurricane Matthew in the Caribbean, the war in Iraq, and drought in East Africa are all examples of how hunger devastates
The United States is known as the wealthiest country in the world. But, there are many people that can't afford to buy food for their families, many are also homeless. “While hunger affects people of all ages, it's particularly devastating for children even short-term episodes of hunger can cause lasting damage."(“Child Nutrition Programs") Child hunger in the United States is caused by poverty, unemployment, food insecurity, and food shortage; however there are many solutions to this problem like FRAC strategies, food banks, summer feeding programs, and backpack feeding programs.
A. How many of you are worried about where your next meal will come from? Are you unsure of how you’re going to purchase next week’s groceries or what you will be feeding your children for dinner tonight? This probably isn’t something most of you think about from day to day. When you are hungry, you eat. It’s easy for you to grab a sandwich, order a pizza, or run through the drive thru when you are on the go. However, there are many families, not just in other countries, but here in the United States as well, that are going hungry every day. According to kidshealth.org, a child dies from malnutrition and related causes every 6 seconds.
Imagine it's the 30th century. Imagine every person in the us obese and sick. Imagine the doctor's office filled with people just because of food. Now imagine the rate we would be losing people just because of diabetes. Now if every kid were to grow up with a healthy childhood then this could be avoided. Using the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act is a great way to get your kids on track with a healthier life. It improves kids nutrition and focuses on kids weight and obesity. It also makes life easier for thoses who are less fortunate and can't afford healthy food.
The United States is known as a the wealthiest country on the planet. There are many poor people in this country that can't afford to buy food for their families; many are homeless. “While hunger affects people of all ages, it's particularly devastating for children even short-term episodes of hunger can cause lasting damage" (“Child Nutrition Programs"). Child hunger in the United States is caused by poverty, unemployment, food insecurity, and food shortage; however there are many solutions to this problem like FRAC strategies, food banks, summer feeding programs, and backpack feeding programs.
It is such a privilege to share our food with the poorest of the poor. This is only possible because of the unwavering support of so many people and organizations. Feed My Starving Children makes and donates the food, with the help of their partners. They donate this food to us, and our Love A Child partners sponsor the food to come from the States to Miami, then by boat to Haiti and released through Haiti’s Customs. When it comes to Haiti we depend on our incredible team and our National Haitian Director, Nelio and his staff to bring it to our Kingdom Connection warehouse. We all work together to feed hungry children and their families in Haiti.
Famine as defined by dictionaries and famine analysts is a virulent manifestation of intense starvation causing substantial loss of life. During 1980s, several writers challenged this view of famine as a discrete event that is triggered by food shortage and resulting in a mass death rate by starvation. These writers argued instead that famine should be perceived as an intensification of normal processes rather than an aberrant event. Mass starvation is only one possible outcome of the famine process; others include fertility decline, economic destitution, community breakdown, distress migration and exposure to new disease vectors. For example, in pre-colonial Tanzania, two kinds of famine were recognised; ordinary food shortage and famine that kill, the ultimate horror of mass starvation. While people in Sudan categorised famines according to their severity; minor famines causes hunger, severe famines cause destitution, and catastrophic famines result death.
Parents used to (maybe still do) attempt to make their children eat brussel sprouts for dinner by saying, “What about those starving children in Africa or China!” And though I’ve always been keenly aware of the hunger problem ‘out there’, what I’ve also tried to remind my children is that hunger also exists in the United States -- in our own backyard. In order to combat the issue of hungry, especially childhood hunger, it’s important to seek to heal those abroad as well as at home.
Have you ever watched a child die of starvation? Let alone your own child?Well residents of Senegal watch this horrific sight every day. Child hunger is a serious problem and not just in Senegal but all around the world! About 3.1 million children die every year from starvation all around the world. Senegal does not have enough food to properly feed their children in order to do this Senegal needs to provide less expensive food. But to do that they must also find inexpensive ingredients. So that way less children will be waking up and going to bed hungry.
Feed My Starving Children hosted a volunteer event at Coon Rapids, MN on August 31st, 2016 from 6pm to 7:30pm. The volunteers job was to package soy, rice, carrots mixed with potatoes, and vitamins into sealed bags. Then, place them into cardboard boxes to ship them out. As a volunteer, my job was to scoop the rice and the soy, then put them into the funnel which empties into the bag. By volunteering, I became a vital part of this assembly line. Without me, there won’t be anyone to scoop the rice and soy into the bags. My team worked well together because we helped each other. We all contributed to solving any problems that surfaced on the job. Not only that, but we showed patience and understanding when someone is working slow or is struggling to do their
Hunger is caused by many events, including the poverty trap, natural disasters, war, poor agricultural infrastructure, and over-exploitation of the environment.
Children in America should not have to be starving in America, instead, they should be helped to fulfill their hunger. In order to support them, we must first understand what kind of situation they are in. Our thoughts include, what kind of lifestyle they have been having, what kind of condition they are in, and if they are in need of our help. In order to make America a better place, we propose to stop the suffering of mass populations. Feed My Starving Children will be the community service program that we will be attending. Here, we can be able to cook a lot of food for each children that come in. In return, we will have a lot of experience in helping the community and also gain a solid relationship with our small group members. Furthermore, we also gain a fun experience in cooking too, where we can use this skill in the future for ourselves. This is due to the fact that we are all engaged in striving for a similar goal, to eliminate starvation in children.
Living in the U.S famine may seem like a distant problem that is hard imagine, but famine is a reality for many people across the world. It would be worrisome if we only viewed it as a fictional problem far from our grasp. The general definition of famine is when there is a widespread scarcity of food. However, this definition is too broad to be used to make any useful policies. The most universally accepted definition of famine, that was developed by the U.N, is that 20 percent of the population must have fewer than 2100 kilocalories of food available per day, that more than 30 percent of children must be acutely malnourished, and that two deaths per day in every 10,000 people - or four deaths per day in every 10,000 children - must be being caused by lack of food (Gorman, 2013). This description of famine is useful well it comes to making policies by giving us a foundation on which we can build our responses. This definition also gives a measurement to which we can hold countries to see how quickly they are progressing towards famine and how devastating the famine will be. A famine can be caused by a number of events such as; war, inflation, crop failure, population imbalance, disease and government policies (Von Braun, 1999). A famine can be cured by the use of food aid, food vouchers, government policies, and the end of the event that was causing the famine.
Hunger is directly related to economics and other factors that cause poverty like the poor infrastructure of a country and inflation. Some people have to decide whether to put food on the table or to pay the rent/mortgage. In America, the cost of living outran the inflation, with food prices rising 4.9% and rent increasing 2.3% (Marketwire). With 1 and 4 workers making $10 or less on their job, it makes it harder to put food on the table. With the combination of inflation in
Feeding The Third World Millions of people today, despite technological advances enabling fish and meat production and crop yields to soar, are still living in hunger. It is estimated that nearly 30% of the world's population suffer from some form of malnutrition, and the majority of these people live in Developing Countries. Intensive and Subsistence Farming both present possible solutions to dealing with world hunger and ending the suffering of the Third World. Intensive Agriculture, also known as Factory or Battery Farming, involves land being farmed in order to achieve the greatest yield possible with the use of inorganic fertilisers and pesticides because it is used to supply large
Each and every individual has fundamental right to be free from hunger and under nutrition. For the accomplishment of this right we need to have equitable and sustainable food system. Moreover we also need to have other entitlements such as livelihood security in terms of right to work, land reform and social security. And every state has the responsibility to take care of these rights of its citizens or it can be said that to ensure these entitlements must be the primary responsibility of the state. To meet these entitlements government introduced various aspects of the right to food such as “National Employment Guarantee Act”, “Universal Mid-Day Meals in primary schools”, Universalization of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) for children under the age of six”, effective implementation of the of all nutrition- related schemes”, “revival and universalization of the public distribution system”, to arrange social security for those who are not able to work”, equitable land rights and forests rights”. Indian parliament has introduced the cooked Mid-Day meals in all primary schools following a Supreme Court order of April 2004. To take this further on 9th April 2002 national “day of action on Mid-Day meals” was celebrated. This event was instrumental in persuading several state governments to initiate cooked mid-day meals in primary schools.