World Hunger
Published on Nov 21, 2015
For Mrs. Blumenshine's lit class.
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
What is hunger?
"to feel or suffer hunger through lack of food"
What is Starvation?
"suffering or death caused by hunger"
What is Malnutrition?
"the condition that occurs when your body does not get enough nutrients"
"not getting enough food; not getting enough healthy nutrients"
What is undernourishment?
now that you know what hunger really means...
I bet you didn't know...
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now that you know some stats, let's see where the world is the hungriest...
Where Hunger is the Worst (in millions)
Sub-Saharan Africa...
Latin America...
this hunger is alive and feasting on humanity.
who is stopping this hunger?
they have packed 145,369,393 meals to 65 countries.
Stop Hunger Now is helping!
They have shipped 850+ million meals
Feed My starving children is helping!
their online game donates a grain of rice for every correct answer
Freerice is helping!
Photo by Freerice
while many are helping, hunger isn't stopping.
in fact, hunger is at one of its highest peaks.
World Hunger Over Time(millions)
World Hunger Over Time (cont.)
as hunger tries to defeat our world, it creates many other problems as well.
hunger effects:
- learning abilities
- lower physical and psychological well-being
- higher chance of behavioral issues
- poorer health and nutrition
- the generations to come
Hunger hasn't just shown up. The world has had its fair share of famines, some worse than others but all deadly.
Worst famines in history
- The Great Chinese Famine (China, 1958, 43 mil deaths)
- Chinese Famine of 1907 (China, 1907, 25 mil deaths)
- Chalisa Famine (India, 1786, 11 mil deaths)
- Soviet Famine of 1932-33 (USSR, 1932-33, 10 mil deaths)
- Bengal Famine of 1970 (Bengal, 1970, 10 mil deaths)
