As part of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week on November 14-22‚ 2015‚ I’m writing as a constituent dedicated to improving the lives of older Americans to urge you to reauthorize and invest in the Older Americans Act (OAA)‚ so that it can continue to provide critical services for older adults to keep them healthy‚ independent‚ and housed. According to the following facts taken from creditable organizations such as Meals on Wheels‚ Feeding America‚ and the National Coalition for the Homeless
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World Child Hunger According to the World Food Program (WFP)‚ hunger is the world’s number health risk. it kills more people every year than AIDS‚ malaria‚ and tuberculosis combined. We live in a world where people have billions of dollars to themselves‚ money that they don’t need and will never be able to finish. Yet every five second a child dies of hunger. The kids are the ones that are most affected‚ to think about how children go to bed hungry is disturbing. There are
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November 3‚ 2012 World Hunger and Poverty Our world population is 6.8 billion but yet 925 million people do not have enough to eat more than the populations of USA‚ Canada and the European Union combined. 98% of the world’s undernourished people live in developing countries and Two-thirds of the world’s hungry live in just 7 countries: Bangladesh‚ China‚ the Democratic Republic of the Congo‚ Ethiopia‚ India‚ Indonesia and Pakistan. Some of the worst worst poverty ridden countries are Asia and
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Everybody knows the feeling of hunger‚ some more than others. As the population grows‚ so does the amount of people that live without proper nutrition and food. Hunger and poverty is a problem many Americans face on a daily basis. These two problems have a negative impact on far too many people. The effects of hunger and malnutrition are not only devastating‚ but can be irreversible. Hunger is not caused by a lack of food alone‚ but also by the continued poverty many people face. According to
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HUNGER DEFINITIONS: Definitions of hunger from commonly-used references include: A desire or need for food; any appetite‚ strong desire‚ or craving. (Dirckx‚ 2001) The uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food; craving appetite. Also the exhausted condition caused by want of food. (Oxford American Dictionary‚ 1980) A
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12 Myths about Hunger Why so much hunger? What can we do about it? To answer these questions we must unlearn much of what we have been taught. Only by freeing ourselves from the grip of widely held myths can we grasp the roots of hunger and see what we can do to end it. Myth 1: Not Enough Food to Go Around Reality: Abundance‚ not scarcity‚ best describes the world’s food supply. Enough wheat‚ rice and other grains are produced to provide every human being with 3‚200 calories a day.
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World Hunger *** Warning: the following is a look at World hunger which some people may disagree with‚ if you would look at non-partisan look at World hunger then keep reading *** Hunger is an issue which many people think lies little importance. Im going to give you a look at World Hunger as a Picture of Poverty‚ how it affects Third World Nations‚ and How World Hunger is a disease that is plaguing our society. "Food is more than a trade commodity‚" pleaded Sir John Boydorr in 1946. "It is
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World Hunger: “Mostly a distribution problem” Have you ever thought about how much food the world wastes and how this increases world hunger? It has been proven that of all the food produced for human consumption‚ over one-third of it is lost during a year and over the 35% of that would feed all the people who lack food in the world (Gunders). The planet is experiencing times of great frustration with this. While the birthrate increases approximately one percent every year‚ the food just does
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Hunger is big problem in America that no one can ignore. From the data showed in the survey which is provided by the United States government‚ we should realized that there are around 50 million American struggling with hunger - which means that they can’t fill their stomachs even they tried every methods to live. Almost one in six Americans can’t feed themselves‚ which is totally astonishing and beyond our imagine. Among the big number of the poverty‚ one in three of them is children. They
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Franz Kafka’s modernist short story “The Hunger Artist” follows the plight of a man who is simply referred to as the “Hunger Artist”; a man who is know for practicing the art of fasting for long periods of time. Throughout the story the hunger artist remains alone within his cage‚ completely cut off from the world that surrounds him. Although the hunger artist’s isolation and starvation appear to be self-imposed‚ it is ultimately revealed that the hunger artist was unable to find public‚ material
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