2. World hunger is a painful and strong desire for food.
Often times people become hungry because of a
shortage of food like famine or not being able to
acquire necessary resources like money.
Poverty is a state of being very poor therefore they
cannot afford essential resources.
These two terms come hand in hand because they often
lead to one and another.
3. Most of the worlds hungry live in third world or developing
countries, like Africa, Asia/ Pacific, Latin American/ Caribbean,
and around East/ North America.
Out of the 870 millions people that are hungry around the world
◦ About 3/4ths of them live in rural areas, like villages.
◦ Rural areas are so poverty sickened because they rely mostly on
agriculture, weather and don’t have any income. Many farmers are
in poverty.
4. Women-
Are the primary food
producers, and when they
do not have enough iron in
their bodies they have Children-
under weight children. It is estimated that
146 million kids
children live in
poverty everyday
because they were
born into it.
5. The answer is yes. When people are hungry they
are more likely to get a
disease because their immune
The general economy goes system is down. They could
down and people lose money then pass the disease on to
because of high prices on others.
goods and services, little
production, and loss of jobs.
When a country is in poverty is
can be because they don’t have
an adequate government. Without
a decent government, problems
can break out (like what is
happening in the Middle East)
and wars can start. Wars affect
everyone.
6. As stated previously, world
hunger and poverty affects
everyone in one way or
another
Seniors, Adults,
Many issues can arise from Children, and
hunger and poverty like infants are dying
dictatorship, war, terrorism, because they
ect.
don’t have a
healthy diet.
7. Why is this issue important?
As stated previously, world hunger and
poverty affects everyone in one way or
another.
The children of the future are not getting a
promising education.
◦ They have to work to support their families
◦ Drop out
8. Children die most often from world hunger.
◦ 15 million children die a year
Even though there is enough food to go around for these children,
they get trapped in poverty
9. Malnutrition is a common disease
children can get
◦ It occurs when your body can’t absorb the
right amounts of nutrients in foods
◦ Your body gets the disease when there are
low levels of food intake.
◦ It causes physical problems to the body
Children are more susceptible to the
disease because they are young and
their bodies need nutrients to grow
11. Anyone can donate money to organizations that help
people in poverty and that are suffering from world hunger.
◦ Some might include:
Harvesters
Mary’s food kitchen
C.A.R.E
You can volunteer your time to pack food into lunch sacks
or go to a place in poverty and help rebuild it.
You can support people running for an office position that
want to help people in poverty.
Lastly you can vote on laws that help people in poverty.
