Analysa Marie Gonzales

Analysa Marie Gonzales

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3 A Real Crisis
4 World Wide Provisions
5 Effects & Solutions
6 Did You Know…?
 A Famine of Continental Proportions
Hurricane Katrina is considered the most devas-
tating hurricane to have ever hit the United States of
America. The southeast Asia earthquake and tsunami
of March of 2005 opened the eyes of millions to the
fears of their own tsunami. And the AIDS virus
(Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is considered one of the
worst pandemics the world has ever known. However in comparison to
these beasts, the 11 million people, who die every year to large scale
famine and malnutrition, are often overlooked.
On a continent which accounts for less than 15% of the world’s
population, hunger is Africa’s natural disaster; that population account-
ing for one quarter of the world’s victims of malnutrition and famine. The
problem lies in poverty. There is definitely enough food in the world for
everyone. For many of the undeveloped countries, worldwide, entire
families must live off of less than one dollar a day, because they lack
funding of any kind. Constantly malnourished, these people can’t work
to their fullest potential, and therefore can’t earn more money. This
leaves them trapped, behind the gates of poverty, unable to save them-
selves. Instead, this has left 25 million people, many of which are refu-
gees, to depend solely on food aid to survive.
While the numbers of people dying from famine and famine-
related problems has decreased by millions in the past 30 years, and
many non government organizations and governmental agencies, alike,
have attempted to lessen the problem, the problem still exists and can
no longer be denied or overlooked.
 World Wide Provisions, (WWP) stands by it’s mission
statement: “We provide the daily provisions and necessities of
the people who are truly in need.” The Non Governmental Or-
ganization is there, with people helping people. This is a non
profit organization, there only for the good of other humans.
The organization was founded for the sole purpose of helping
those incapable and held back by the bonds of poverty.
 How Else Does Poverty Effect Africa?
Development of an area or country can effect the numbers
of people who are stuck in poverty. The reality of this, however, is
quite ironic. People who are stuck in poverty often can’t find their
way out. It’s an impossible hill, and no matter how hard they try,
they just fall back down to the bottom. For obvious reasons, the
more the populations and communities suffer, the more the coun-
try as a whole, suffers. Notice the economies of many of these
poorly developed areas aren’t doing so great, and part of it is,
their relatively small work forces earns an average of less than 1
dollar every day. That’s one problem, but when you have these
government officials that either hold back money form certain eth-
nic groups, or officials that spend the money for the wrong rea-
sons, you basically go in a loop. They’re so trapped in a world
without funds or proper resources, that there ends up a chain re-
action, where population can effect the extinction of a certain tribe
to even a failure in economy.

How Can It be Stopped?

Governments need to be more aware of where funding is
really going, and whether it’s being used properly if they wish to
provide the government with funding. However, developed coun-
tries also need to make good on their word of providing funding.
As leaders of the world’s economic, technologic, and governmen-
tal systems, it is our responsibility to look past our petty differ-
ences, and help those who are truly in need. A percentage of tax-
es should go to these organizations to help run them, as dona-
tions cannot always do the trick. (According to an online poll,
most people who do not donate to organizations, don’t because
they don’t have any way of knowing whether or not their dona-
tions are being used for a good cause, rather than being wasted.
 Did you know?

 Everyday over 25,000 people die of hunger,

or hunger-related causes.
 That is one person every three and a half se-
conds.
 One-seventh of the world’s population suffers
from hunger.
 Of that population, 150 million are children,
who suffer form malnutrition.
 In 1970 there were almost one billion victims,
and though numbers have gone down drasti-
cally, there are still millions of people suffer-
ing.
 World hunger kills more people worldwide
than any other problems of poverty do!

Analysa Marie Gonzales