I thank God that I was blessed to not experience any stressors in my childhood. There is one stressor that I’m very passionate about and that is child hunger. I know that there are a great number of kids in the US that experience this stressor, but when I think of childhood hunger I think of Africa. In Africa nearly six million children die every year from malnutrition. I was amazed to find that the majority of the deaths in African children are from treatable disease, such as diarrhea, measles, malaria and pneumonia and that this number could be lowered with proper nourishment. Poverty, illiteracy and disease are all made worse by hunger, one report says. Malnourished children start school later and find it difficult to learn. It breaks my heart to watch the commercials on child hunger in places like Ethiopia, and I wish there were more that I myself could do. I know that with individual aid as well as International agencies, NGO’s, civil society and private sectors will continue to work hard to end hunger in the US as well as other countries.
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http://www.end-child-hunger.org/
Tiffany, thanks for sharing. I share your thoughts. Too often, we take food for granted, especially with so much of it being wasted. It breaks my heart to think about all of the people who go without food everyday, but when I think about the children, it pulls at my heart in a whole new way. I wish that I could do more!
ReplyDeleteHi Tiffany, I feel the same way that you do about starving and malnourished children in other countries. One country that I really feel like I want to help is Haiti. Maybe because it is a Caribbean countries I feel like I should be doing more to help the children over there. I am hoping to get the opportunity to go over there on a mission trip and make connections with oranizations there that I can support on a regular basis. Thanks for sharing!
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