Emergency measures in relieving famine primarily include providing deficient micronutrients, such as vitamins and minerals, through fortified sachet powders or directly through supplements. Aid groups have begun to use a famine relief model based on giving cash or cash vouchers to the hungry to pay local farmers, rather than buying food from donor countries as the latter distorts local food markets.
The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving!
Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.
However, the world can produce enough food to feed its expanding population. While some famines are caused by drought or other so-called natural disasters, children are more likely to be starving because of man's inhumanity to man--war, embargoes, government corruption and economic oppression.
My Thoughts
It makes me really sad to think that there are people and not to mention young children who are starving and are in deep need of help.
When I'm at home watching TV with my mom and this World Vision commercial comes where they are showing sad pictures of kids so skinny you can see they're bones and playing sad music with videos of kids eating a lil bit of food or crying because of the hunger my mom tells me to change the channel because she doesn't like to watch those lil kids cry and starving. I watch it because my mom doesn't like it and because when i watched one i did one small thing to help change that. I sponsored a child when I DID call that number on the screen.
His Name is Peter Alfred Makoye. As of January this year he is now 8 years old. I've sponsored him for a year now. Me and my mom send money to him and his family every month for food and medical treatment. I send him gifts for him to play with and keep. I've written letters to him and I've also recieved 2 letters from him, but written by his neighbor and then translated by a World Vision Translator. I get things in the mail that I could send to him also, the last thing I got was a letter from World Vision and a lil necklace that says "Hope" in it. The letter says that the necklace shows him that there's people around the world who care for him and his family and we want to do something to help him out.
A happy child with the World Vision Trademark.
(This is not Peter, my sponser child but he looks almost
exactly like this and just as cute.)
This just shows how big of a smile we can put on a lil child's face
and his family that we care and are doing something about it.
(This is not Peter, my sponser child but he looks almost
exactly like this and just as cute.)
This just shows how big of a smile we can put on a lil child's face
and his family that we care and are doing something about it.
That's so sad. I just want to help them when I see that. the thing is though that sometimes the money you send doesn't go to the poor people which makes me mad. you never know if the money actually goes to help them that's why I rather give money to our church because I know that it will be send to the right place and to help people because I can see the results of it:)
ReplyDeleteAwe. I feel so bad for these people because they have no food and I know there are people out there trying to help but it doesnt seem to be helping much. And the thought of seeing people look like this brings tears to my eyes .
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