Global Hunger Issues

Global Hunger is the most prevalent issue in the modern world. In much of Asia, Africa and other parts of the developing world, people are malnourished and do not have access to sufficient food. From lack of food, children suffer the most with many young people being underweight, having a higher under-five mortality rate and most children in the affected areas being malnourished. Hunger levels in third-world countries has decreased however in war affected countries such as Iraq, hunger has increased severely. Malnourishment effects the body all through a person’s life, from the moment they are born to when they are old, if they survive that long. Life long hunger can increase mortality rate, stunt growth, increase risk of diseases and mental
While World Vision’s 40 Hour Famine simply raises money and sends meals and food to impoverished countries, other organisations use money from donations to help in other ways. Stop Hunger Now, another global hunger initiative, packages meals in currently 71 countries, 88.5% of donations fund their meal programs; the World Food Program, not only fight hunger and nutrition problems but they fight other issues such as HIV/AIDS and help communities to grow their own food; Action Against Hunger runs programs that target problems in nutrition, water, sanitation, hygiene, food security and livelihood, emergency response. There are a number of other organisations that run programs that help in the long term by teaching poor countries how to farm and grow their own food supply, which reducing, not only the hunger itself but their need to overwork for money in order to supply their families with
In order to raise awareness to other students, a message in the morning notices told the students who wished to participate what the 40 Hour Famine was about and where and how they could sign up or donate to the cause. Then 20 posters such as Appendix 3 were hung up around the school for those who did not hear the notice and to prompt students further to join. When students did approach me or other event co-ordinators an account on the official 40 Hour Famine website (http://www.40hourfamine.com.au/ ) for sponsors to donate to. Overall there were 6 students who joined the event. There were not as many participants as predicted and, as was mentioned in the survey, the reason was most likely due to lack of motivation for students to participate. For my participation in the social action I gave up verbal communication for 40 hours, as did most people due to it being more convenient than not eating, no furniture etc. Overall I raised $17.30 due to there only being a short amount of time to collect donations from sponsors. I received an official certificate for participating in the event (Appendix 4). In the future there could have been more preparation before the event in order to advertise the event and allow other students to sign up. There also could have been a presentation informing students about Global Hunger which might have motivated students more by seeing the effects of