Although we are learning about chemistry, we also need to remember that science can help us create a better world to live in. Science can solve many of the problems facing people all around the world. One problem is poverty and hunger.
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“Poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome by the actions of human beings”.
(Nelson Mandela)
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In 2007, world food prices rose by 40%. Rising food costs affect everybody, but some families spend up to 80% of their incomes on food. These families are struggling to survive.
BBC News: “UN warns on food price inflation” March 2008
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Consider these guiding questions:
In what ways are people poor?
Whose problem is it?
Are we all responsible for fighting poverty?
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Visit this website
and look over the statistics related to food, hunger etc.
Then go to this website
http://www.globalcitizencorps.org/issues.htm?page=issues_hunger
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Your assignment from globalcitizenscorps.org is:
- What is hunger?
- Who does hunger affect?
- What causes hunger?
- What are sustainable solutions?
- What is Mercy Corps doing?
(2) Then write a comment to this post giving your opinion on
“What actions can you take to eliminate hunger and/or poverty in the world?
Post your comment “anonymously” but remember to put your first name and initial to your last name. Ex: DougA .
Questions? Ask me. Thanks, Mr. A
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This assignment supports the the International Day for the Eradication of World Poverty on 17 October.
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Reference:
http://communitytheme.ibo.org/eng/ib-global-lessons-overview-schools
78 comments:
ways to help stop hunger is giving food to food banks or including to the people themselves.
most of us have more than enough food. why not give from what we have most.
i think that they should have a place were the people that need food can get food for free while they try to find a solution to this problem. LZ
The actions we can take to eliminate hunger or poverty in the world would be to start giving. We can do this by stating food drives at schools in the community. Make sure that every student at least contributes one item to the food drive. Then at the end of every month send out the food and redo the food drive. Sharing is Caring.
Thalia V.
The actions that we could take to eliminate hunger or poverty would be to donate food when ever we can as well as clothing and personal products. We can also donate money to people who need it or to organizations that are dedicating their time to finding solutions to poverty. Not wasting our money on things that are unimportant is also a way that we can help solve this dilemma. Instead we can use our money to only buy what is necessary and to help others.
Jessica M
There are many ways to fight povery and hunger. One way to fight hunger is to give food to food banks. Another is to give food to the people in your Community themselves. In relation to poverty, money danations can be made monthly. Everyone desrves the right to basic neccesities. Lets think a second time before wating food and be thankful that we have food to eat. That food that can be going to waste could be a bleesing for someone in poverty and hunger.
EdwardM.
some of the ways we can eliminate poverty and help stop it is to cut back on resourses and instead of hogging food and overeating we should share the resourses we got. people in this world hve no food and education like all this good syuff we got and wee need to help them so everybody in this world has what they need so this world can be a better community. this is what poverty is and some of the ways we can help fight it and stop it in this world and make sure everybody is happy!
We can elimate hunger by sharing our food with them instead of just throwing it in the garbage. I think that sad how people die everyday over hunger isusses and we don't do anything about it. I think there should some way they could eat.
JosephineE
To stop hunger we can donate food to these countries and try and help these people because if we were in this situation I know we would want them to help us. I think this could help make the world a better place i think we would be able to donate food and clothing and money to help as much as we can. MW
some of the ways we can eliminate poverty and help stop it is to cut back on resourses and instead of hogging food and overeating we should share the resourses we got. people in this world hve no food and education like all this good syuff we got and wee need to help them so everybody in this world has what they need so this world can be a better community. this is what poverty is and some of the ways we can help fight it and stop it in this world and make sure everybody is happy!
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Some actions that i can take to help eliminate world hunger is donating money or food to different parts of the world that are strugling with poverty. I can also start a food drive in my school or in our community,that will help peole all the world. Some actions that the goverment should take is giving out different jobs to people that are in need of money and food.
Heriberto Z.
I think that thier should be more places like food banks were people can go get the food that they need,while the government tries to figure out what they can do! people that have all kinds of extra food that just sits in their cudords or in their refrigerater can go and give the people that need it them selves. that would help!
ashleyh
Phil N
I was reaserching proverty and when I was reaserching i saw a web site about hunger. I dicided to take some notes and I found out that hunger is effecting over 923 million people in the world. The reason that peolpe are in hunger are that they are in poverty. But Ive hear that we could help by inventing somthing to help keep food. Someone has and it is a community crop to help the misforschent. So now you know that you could help.
to element poverty from the world we should give more healthy food to people in need it that simple, if we dont stop poverty who will "NO ONE" so lets stop wasting money and use it for something importent for a change
People are "Poor" just becuase others are "rich", or have more. Just as there is "ugly" because there is "Beauty". Being poor means the lack or absence of food, money, or means of support. There are a few factors to blame, most of which lead to the government. We aren't ALL responsible for fighting poverty (some of us are fighting poverty ourselves), but that doesn't mean we can't all do something to help. Scientists are doing their part by trying to create new, cheaper crops. Those who are "rich" can do their part by simply donating those extra cans of food. Donate. It's not that hard! ~JohannaS
i belive that to solve this wrold wide solution they need to set up programs that will get people back on there feet help. them out with food. if not work and find solutions to grow food rapidly with out harming the ozone layer (globel warming) even more and not just a few hundered people can do this alone they need the help of every one even if that means only donating a dollar at a time because your still helping someone than just ignoring the fact that theres people that need help. Cruz G
There is a serious promblem in the world with starvation. The meaning of proverty is the state or condition of having little or no money, goods or means of support; condition of being poor. The way the world should slove this promblem is by helping each other by making more jobs and frist give the food, then come up with solutions to stop or reduce proverty. I dont belive that giving the food will fix everything we need to find long term solutions. THANKS FOR READING JOSEPH WATTS
I learn from world hungier is that the reason hungier happens because people do not recive a sufficent amount of calories and nutrients from food. Also it affects alot of people in the world daily.I think that the ecomeny stinks and that inside of increase the prices of the food we should decrease the prices so that people can acculy eat and stop world hungier.
I belive no matter what we do, there's always going to be someone that's in this problem. Both hunger and poverty aren't going to go away in this world today.
We can help it a little, maybe like donating once in a while to organizations that help people, holding funraisers, etc. But we can't give away all our cans and a lot of our money because then where does that leave us? It leaves us in the situation we tried to get rid of.
Adriana J.
The only way to stop hunger is by being able to give them food so that they dont starve. We as people might as well give them food since we can afford it and will be able to get more if we run out.
Sydney P
A way to stop hunger is by taking money and other resources from other bussiness that are showing greed and alot of wealth and giving it to funds and places where the people really need it.
Ways to eliminate hunger and poverty are to maybe ditribute money around. Those rich stars have all the money in the world and they couldn't care less. They have fancy cars and homes and they don't go a day without buying something new.They would never starve with all the money they have. They should be the ones sharing thier money with those in need. Sure they earned it, but they have so much that they should son't know what to do with most of it. The economy is falling and what are they doing? Not what they should be doing?
KaylaB
ways to help stop hunger is giving food to food banks or including to the people themselves.
most of us have more than enough food. why not give from what we have most.
The actions that I think the people can take to stop starvation and proverty around the world is, instead of people waisting their money on products that "make you loose weight" (but it is no true) to donate some of that millions that they just hand over to the factories, to give it to people that need it more.Their are a lot of commercials that tell you were you can go or call to help this people so it is not hard work tohelp them. Then the rest you can spend it for the gym that get's you healthier and makes you loose weight and strongs the pills or medication won't do does 3 things for you.I have a question for you. Why is the weight loos more importat that a helping people commercial?
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Victor V
I think they should have places to the poor people and give thigs to the poor people.That food that can be going to waste could be a bleesing for someone in poverty and hunger.
Juan M
We can elimate hunger by sharing our food with them instead of just throwing it in the garbage. some of the ways we can eliminate poverty and help stop it is to cut back on resourses and instead of hogging food and overeating we should share the resourses we got.
I think that the crisis of world hunger shouldnt be happening at all.If people would just donate atleast 3 or 4 cans of food they dont know much they would be helping. Instead of just leaving them to rot in your basement you should give them to people in need.
Gabriel H.
The action we can take to reduce the hunger and poverty in the world is, by donating food, and starting food drives.
I think that we need to help the pople need the food and goo d water to drink. Next we can help by having some of are helppers to go to these places and give poeple food water cloths shoes and end hunger and poverty in the world. We can send some poeple to the little towns that need to food beacuse the familys in need. When we have a good paying job, food on are tables, good cloths on are backs, good shoes, all this other good stuff in are great of world the U.S. By Michaela G
“What actions can you take to eliminate hunger and/or poverty in the world?
The actions you can take to eliminate hunger and/or poverty in the world are to donate to the needy, and not spend so much money on worthless things. As Americans, we have chosen to follow in the steps of our society. Society is only leading our world into destruction by making the rich richer, and the poor poorer. Society is teaching us that perfection is the way to go, so we waste our money on things that cannot better us in any way as people. The money we waste can be used to help the people who actually need it.
I think we should start a food drive, and start donating food. So we need to start caring for other people.
Some actions or things that we could do to eliminate or at least improve the poverty in the world would be helping them out in many ways. One way we could help them is that U.S.A Could start collecting millions of dollars and sending them to the people in poverty. We could also open up a program all around the world to give food to people in hunger. I would like to make an agreement or work something out with companies like from stores so we could get fresh food for the people in need. We could send some nice doctors over to places in poverty to give flu shots and shots free for the children, check and make sure that they are healthy. I believe that there might be some scientistic way to i dont make food grow faster and good, give this food to the people who are suffering of hunger this days. Its not that hard, just if we all get together and work together to help the people around OUR world to make OUR world a much better place!!!
GenesisG
we should help others bymaking more charities and stop wasting money on new technology. we shouild firts help solve the problem of hunger before we waist all our money on new i pods and cell phones.
we should help others by making charities .we should also donate food. We could also build a small place where water could be purified.
miguel m
some actions or ways to help stop hunger is to help fight world hunger. Raise money for people who are in need of food and money.Many of us can help and start giving to others.we shouldn't waste money on things we don't need instead give it to people who do need it for the right reasons.
Brittany H
well i think that we should stop thinking so much about us and our economy and think more for other families and kids that are strugguling because they dont have tghu resources to eat enough or to work we need to help them out its like today for them and tomorrow for us they need our help we need to decrease the unworthwastes and use on those people have more organizations to help these poor people out if we help the we might not receive nothing back but a thanh you but what we will have in our memories and the fact to know that we helped and we lower those dies of hunger from the ratings is good enough recompense. right?
Poverty is one of the worst possible things in the United States. Hunger occurs when people do not recive an certain amount of calories and nurtients from foods. Hunger affects 923 million physical and mental help. Lack of acess to foodmaree the primary reasons for poverty. Mercy Crops is a food program. So as you can see POVERTY is a terrible thing happening in this world.!
Daisy G.
Actions that we could take to eliminate hunger and poverty are to fund those contries with hunger and poverty. Since hunger is caused by poverty, we need to focus on it more than anything else. Once poverty is eliminated, curing hunger should be a sintch. However, getting food to those countries who suffer from hunger is another story. If we can ship food and goods to those countries, then both hunger and poverty will be eliminated.
Jesse C.
923 million people are affected by world hunger. 4 actions you could take are; host a community fund raising event, become global itizen corps leader, and join youth movement and also provide food. Another reason why people sufer hunger is because there is not enough food.
When it comes to the topic of poverty many people believe its an issue that nature threw in our way. But its a man-made issue that depends on the human race to find a solution. Hunger is an important roll of poverty. Hunger is when people don't receive a sufficient amount of food, and people all across the world face this issue. This is caused the lack of access to food, which are main reasons to malnutrition. One big project that is working to help eliminate hunger are the Mercy Corps. These people are making sure that many elementary school children have access to clean, drinkable water and protein-rich soymilk. They are working to find the main cause of poverty and work out a sustainable solution. I believe that with a short-term invention and a long-term solution will help us vanish poverty little by little.
Jessica C.
Jaimed
I think we should raise the peoples taxes to give back to the poverty communities. Because in order to strive we must unite and help each other starting now
A way that we can helpm out our world hunger by donating food and money to the cities/states that dont have food. Another way that we can stop world hunger is by thinking about others not only yourself ex: Us people with money buy food and eat some theb throw it away not thinking that other people in other states and cities dont even eat in days,week,maybe a month ,then die. so next time you are gonna throw something away think of other people and their families.
rosa figueroa
The actions people can do to stoping globle hunger is to sighing petitions,and be included in fundraisers there really aint that much we can do.
HALEYp
We could help others that does not have the same life we do have and we could help them by doing a fundraiser or a cherity. we could not spend our money on cell phones or in stuff we do not need and mail it to the country they need the money so they could have something to eat and help them get an education so they could turn into someone important in the world. francisco g
I think that to fight poverty we as a country should donate a good quantaty of money to organizations that are fighting poverty. Organizations that help fix poverty also go and help the people with fewer resources because we wont now who is in a worse situation right now and they do. This way they give water filters and food to the villages that need it the most
gabriel b
923 million people are affected by world hunger. 4 actions you could take are; host a community fund raising event, become global itizen corps leader, and join youth movement and also provide food. Another reason why people sufer hunger is because there is not enough food. RosendoA
Marco R
The way to stop poverty and food probelms is to help and donate money and food to people in need.There should be programs all aorund the woeld to help stop the poverty and hunger of the world.
we a people need to stop thinking about our wants and start thinking about what other people need. dont buy ipods knowing that across the country there is poor people not eating. so you are persuaded huh? you probley thinking what have poor people ever do for me right? imagine you and your little brother or sister or even little cousin are in a tent called "home" and every day you have to work and not going to school but you have to protect your little siblin from everyone because everyone is trying to steal everything you have because they dont have nothing. now cant we as people help??? Augustina C
Some actions that we can take to help out world hunger is by donating money to the poor or by giving cans of food to those that need it. The world that we live in is cruel, so we need to help eachother out to make it through. People are selfish these days but they need to "grow-up" and give whatever they can to help those in need especially those that are dying of hunger. If we don't have eachother...we have nobody.
PriscilaA
I believe that one of the worlds biggest problem is worl dhinger. theres alot we can do but...we don't.for one we could fundrais or raise awareness.
I think that we could give people in poverty food or some extra things that we have. We could set up some kind of food banks that would able people tp gp in and get food.
BrandiC
some ways that we can help to get rid of hunger and poverty in the world is we can send people food or give it to the banks, some people have a lot of money and more than enough to keep for the selves and give some to people who need it.
Casandra C.
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Actions we can take to help eliminate hunger from the society is being able to make it easy for everyone to access wheter they be rich or extremely poor. Every living human being needs food to survive and with prices rising it is very hard to buy food, but if food prices would lower the economy wouldnt be as bad. Poverty is a big factor that cause malnourishment among many citizens of the world. We can give what is not being used for the ones that have no money at all to help poverty also. ErinS
ways that we can help stop hunger would be to have can food drives, or to funraise. also try to use money for useful things and not just to throw it away. We could also give money that we dont need to countries in need.
Elizabeth G.
There are many ways we can help stop poverty. we can help by giving the poor a little money or something they can use. we can stop hunger by giving food to the poor everday so they can eat just like we do everday, and stop being left out.most of us have more than enough food, why not share and help the hunger and stop poverty in the world.
Ashley D
There are many ways to fight poverty and hunger. We can do this by stating food drives at schools in the community.Most of us have more than enough food. The actions that we could take to eliminate hunger or poverty would be to donate food when ever we can as well as clothing and personal products. Justin R
1. Most people who deal with hunger suffer from vitamin or mineraldifrences,witch make stunted growth , and weekness. i did not have tome to finesh
hunger is when people stay hungry without their choosing.hunger affects many peolpe.in fact, it affects about 923 million people and about twenty thousand people die daily.hunger is caused by unsuffiecient funds to buy food. some solutions to solve this horrible crisis is to spend less money on dieting and sending money to third wolrd countries to help those in need.
I would make a food drive and start getting people into helping them get food we need to hand out the supplies personally to ensure that the goods are delivered we should also give the gov. money to make markets.
juan b.
Hunger is when people don't get an certain amount of calories & protines from food. Over 923 million people in the world. Poverty and lack of access to food the cause of hunger. Eradicate the factorys that contribute food.
Casandra B
The things we could do is lend a helping hand.We could send food to different tribes or M.R.E's so that they'd have food for a while. We could also raise money to send to them.
Hunger is when people don't get an certain amount of calories & protines from food and over 923 million people in the world. Poverty and lack of access to food is the cause of hunger. We could help stop hunger by doing food drives and other stuff that help's people get food.
-Casandra B.
Hunger effects our world, economy, and our goverment. A solutible solution is to donate food, clothing, and whatever we can and to have the goverment make sure no one is in poverty and has food and nobody is in povery. We spend too much money on things that we might not need, when other people in poverty might need, such as buying perfume and make up and things we could live without.
One way to help stop hunger is to donate money or food to those in need.
Almost all of us comlain about not having enough but by the time we realize that there are other people that have less, it is too late.
Marcus S.
Hunger is when you don't eat enough food, then you start to get starvation.The kinds hunger are chronic malnutrition and acute malnutrition.Hunger affects over 923 million people that are undernourished and 90 percent affect hunger extremly.What causes hunger there is not enough food in the world for people.Some solve solutions is eradicate the factors taht to the food insecurity.
I feel that in order to reduse the amount of hunger and poverty in this world everyone needs to contribute.It is impossible for only one person or group to try and solve this problem alone.Because America has the most of these resources we as Americans should help out the most. This includes even the little things like donating food,clothing,money,supplies,and even our time. Our actions alone can help prevent this. Starvation is caused by lack of resources and if we give other countrys these resources then they will be able to get the food and supplies they need. Even for the people who are fighting poverty and hunger them selves can help out. If we show to our government that this is a big issue that involves the whole world and that we need to lift them out of a situation that can be solved then,we can start fighting and succeed.
To help solve poverty we could contribute to communities where they don't have as many food resources. Also instead of spendingmoney on diets we could be spending it on nutritional necessities.
SamanthaH
One way we can help people that live in daily hunger is maybe taking food to place your know need food also by donating money to dose who need it..
Because we think we have to little and we really have more then anotherpeople out in the world........stop and think about it before its to late!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
silvia S
Hunger occurs when people dont recieve a suffiecent amount of calories and nutrients from food.Hunger affects over 923 million people all over the world. hunger is caused by poverty and lack of access to food. Sustainable solutions are eradicate the factors that contribute to food insecuriety.Also you can give food to the needy. the Mercy Corps is helping who is most vulnurable and has a Sumatra Healthy School Program in Indonesia. One way i think we could help is donate our extra food and or belongings to people in need.
sydney t.
ways to stop hunger are to all work together to help one another because we need to unite as 1
kathleen jenkins
hunger occurs when you dont get enough calories and nutrience from food undernurishment is one type of hunger chronic and acute is a nother type of malurishment 923 people are malnurished in the world lack and access are the reasons why people go hungry one way we could help this is to ship food to the countries that cant afford them taylor r
To stop or help poverty we need to put money into feeding the homeless of all countries.We also need to stop wars because it takes from the money we can use for the people affected by poverty
Jason H
We could help others that does not have the same life we do have and we could help them by doing a fundraiser or a cherity. we could not spend our money on cell phones or in stuff we do not need and mail it to the country they need the money so they could have something to eat and help them get an education so they could turn into someone important in the world.
katrina r said...
1. What is hunger? most people deal with hunger suffer from vitamin or mineral defricencies, witch makes stinted growth and weeknes
2. Who does hunger affect? 15,256 people so far today
3. What causes hunger? poverty and no access to food are the main reasons for hunger
4.What are sustainable solutions?It is important that your soulition is go for the country and it is also a matter of wether the food is healthy or not
5.What is Mercy Corps doing? consontrating on the people who are most inprtant or need the most help.
Hunger is a big issue when it comes to poverty.Hunger is affecting millions of people across the world and it needs to stop. The cause of hunger is poverty and the lack of access to food and money.What can we do to stop this? We can do short term interventions and long term solutions. What's the solution, not so sure. But the Mercy corpse is insuring that elementary school children have access to clean drinkable water.So what can you do about it?
Bo P.
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i think that people need to be more shaing fot the the women that are pranet and that are not so will because i would not want to go without food or ant thing like that and poverty is not good because people that are poor or do not have the money to pay so i think that people need to be more caring to the other people that is my comment soory if is not what you wnat it to be about ok
Rebecca U
Hey All,
Great comments on this blog. I enjoyed reading how compassionate and creative you all are. One of the quotes said that poverty is man-made and can be overcome by the actions of humans. Who do you think is most responsible for poverty and who is most responsible to overcome poverty?
What role does Global Warming play?
What role might modern technology play? I heard this awesome story on NPR about how genetically engineered rice helped stave off poverty in one country: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15032263
Does the United States have a responsibility to spend taxes paid by US citizens to pay for research that leads to solutions to problems in other countries?
The article make me feel was that we could change the world in poverty by coming togheter to help the poor people around the world. This article make me feel sadness. The other thing is that being poor is rouht without food.The article make me move to action and to do something about it.
Francisco Galvan
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