Hunger In IndiaBy: Ca May Ng

What Can Hunger Do To You?

You body will start to feed on its own fat and body tissues.

Between 8 to 12 weeks, you may lose about 50 percent of your bodyweight.

Death

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Timeline of India

What is ActionAid? International development agency.

Fight poverty.

Started helping India since 1972.

Problem: Undernourished

Don’t get vitamin supplements

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50 percent of children death in India

Every 3.6 seconds

10 million people die of chronic hunger and hunger related diseases

Last year, 7 million young children who have died in the developing world which is the equivalent of the entire population in Switzerland.

20 Indians will sleep hungrily tonight. 10 million people die every year.

Prostitutions.

Many young girls are dropping out of school to look for jobs.

What the government should do

Government should organize a debt cancellation

Minimize birth rates

Should give better and free education for the children in India

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How outside groups are helping the locals

WFP ( United Nations World Food Programme), fed 98 million people

Micro Finance also helped by donating money to the locals

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What the government is trying to do:

Reduce the cost of food.

Encourage and support food production in and around urban areas.

3,00,000 young children are save by vitamin A supplementation.

How I can help to overcome this obstacle

Donate money and teach them how to farm to make their own food.

Learning more about hunger and then spread my knowledge with others to create more awareness on the obstacle.

I can also eat less meat.