Hunger in Africa
Millions of people across Africa face hunger, drought, and poverty. Because of poor rainfall, crop failures, and skyrocketing food prices guardians are unable to provide nutritious food for their children. Children go without eating for days, some even weeks. Without the right nutritious foods children cannot grow or develop. People are vulnerable to killer diseases like diarrhea, malaria and pneumonia, because their immune systems are weakened by hunger. Because the average African only earns about $1.25 a day, people can hardly afford food and for those without any income at all, food is unable to be purchased. All across Africa, hunger is spreading, killing thousands and only causing devastation throughout the land.
http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/africa_hunger_facts.htm
http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.8197811/k.616B/Fighting_Hunger_in_Africa.htm
http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/africa_hunger_facts.htm
http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.8197811/k.616B/Fighting_Hunger_in_Africa.htm
Effects Hunger and Drought Have on People
Children are unable to receive any formal education because they are at home roaming the streets looking for food and water in order to keep their families and themselves alive. Everyday children must take long journeys to find enough water for drinking and bathing for whole families. If the children even go to school, they spend most of their day walking miles and miles to find water. When the kids are learning thy are so hungry that it is difficult to concentrate, taking more away from their learning. Time in school is spent trying to survive rather than learning.
The water they get is heavily polluted with feces and disease causing agents. Many who embark on this journey never come back and those who do end up dying from drinking the water. People have weak immune systems from starving and they drink the polluted water causing death. Children cannot commit to their education if they want a family to come home to their family, and people are unable to go about their lives freely, but instead they cautiously eat and drink getting skinnier and closer to death by the minute A combination of low rainfall, poor local harvest, and high foods prices have left people at risk of malnutrition which causes death.
The water they get is heavily polluted with feces and disease causing agents. Many who embark on this journey never come back and those who do end up dying from drinking the water. People have weak immune systems from starving and they drink the polluted water causing death. Children cannot commit to their education if they want a family to come home to their family, and people are unable to go about their lives freely, but instead they cautiously eat and drink getting skinnier and closer to death by the minute A combination of low rainfall, poor local harvest, and high foods prices have left people at risk of malnutrition which causes death.
Efforts to Stop Hunger and Drought
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) works in 190 countries including Africa to save and improve children's lives by providing health care and immunizations, clean water, sanitation, nutrition, education, emergency relief and more. The U.S. Fund for UNICEF supports UNICEF’s work through fundraising, advocacy, and education in the United States. The U.S. Fund for UNICEF fights for the survival and development of the world’s most vulnerable children and protects their basic human rights. UNICEF will do whatever it takes to save a human being. They will stop wars so children can be vaccinated and bring lifesaving food and water to places no one else can reach. They work with government leaders, civic figures, celebrities, corporations, campus groups, churches, teachers, and anyone willing to help us advocate for the survival and wellbeing of people. People can donate money and what you think is an insignificant $5.00 is a significant amount to an African child whose life is saved by that money. They send people and set up camps were food and purified water is distributed. This program is saving many lives each and every day.
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, hundreds of millions of people suffer from a lack of access to clean, safe water. Women, girls, and those able are relied on to walk miles at a time to gather water from streams and ponds which contain water-borne disease that make them and their families sick. These illnesses and the time lost to fetching water fatally affect many lives. Over half of the schools in Africa don’t have access to water or sanitation and spend more of their time looking for it rather than learning. With Donations, The Water Project helps build wells, dams, and rain catchments that provide constant sanitary drinking water in villages and schools. Just by accessibility to water people have greatly improved hygiene standards and has reduced deaths caused by unpurified water.
http://thewaterproject.org/getinvolved.php
http://www.unicefusa.org/work/immunization/
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, hundreds of millions of people suffer from a lack of access to clean, safe water. Women, girls, and those able are relied on to walk miles at a time to gather water from streams and ponds which contain water-borne disease that make them and their families sick. These illnesses and the time lost to fetching water fatally affect many lives. Over half of the schools in Africa don’t have access to water or sanitation and spend more of their time looking for it rather than learning. With Donations, The Water Project helps build wells, dams, and rain catchments that provide constant sanitary drinking water in villages and schools. Just by accessibility to water people have greatly improved hygiene standards and has reduced deaths caused by unpurified water.
http://thewaterproject.org/getinvolved.php
http://www.unicefusa.org/work/immunization/