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Brief Summary: Child Hunger In America
I am talking about child hunger in America. Im highly against it because no child should have to worry about how they're going to eat. Instead they should be out playing with their friends having fun. There are kids all around the world that deal with hunger, but I think we should worry about our own country before we go and try to fix the other country's problems. I think that we all could donate a little bit of money to try to get programs started in communities to help out the local homeless people and families. Such as twice a week somewhere can serve hot meals and hand out food for the rest of the week so they don't go hungry. There is nothing worse than seeing a kid that's hungry. There is already government assistance such as food

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