Blog # 5 Whats Happening In The World Today.

Korea as well as many other nations are suffering the effects of the food shortages. Because of the supply shortages more than expected 100 000 will get food over the next 2 months. Masood Hyder, United Nation representative in the country, stated that there trying to feed 6.5 million. Hyder expects not one asian will die but might suffer from malnutrition or other health problems containing loss of nutrients. The program only has 3000 tonnes of food and pleads to serve 40 000 tonnes each month mainly containing rice, corn and other wheats. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2004/02/09/nkorea_food040209.html for more information

Blog # 4 How World Hunger Is Connected To Poverty

World Hunger is connected to poverty because most of "homeless" people can't continue on without there daily intake of vitamins, which is found in certain food. The recommened intake that should be taken in daily is: 7-8 servings of vegetables/fruit, 6-7 servings of grain, 2 servings of dairy, and 2 servings of meat/alternatives. World hunger is a terrible symptom of world poverty. If efforts are only directed at providing food, or improving food production or distribution, then the structural root causes that create hunger, poverty and dependency would still remain.

Blog # 3 Effects Of Poverty

The effects of poverty doesn't only contain: starving because of starvation or lacking the nessessary medical requirements to survive of your poverty. Most of the time, most people who die of poverty couldn't survive of the physical or mental health problems. These problems can effect them by not letting them get up in the morning or not getting them a job, preventing them to go out of poverty. Since this is happening over 270 million people have died concerning poverty. 9 - 10 times children die before thier 5th birthday. Over 11 million have died.

Blog #1 Introduction Containing Poverty

Poverty is the condition on which a person has little or no money, diminished foods and no means of support. There only means of income is begging on the streets, looking for items useless to there survival and selling them. There shelter usually contains of a box or a garbage can. There blankets (to keep warm) contains of worn out blankets or cardboard boxes. There food is either moldy or stolen. There water from the sea or the ocean.

Blog #2 Cause of Poverty

Poverty usually starts because of drug abuse, Jail time or a lack of work. If you go to this specific section on this website ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty#Cause_of_poverty ) this will let you know of some more ways you can research the cause of poverty. Ways to help poverty are to send gift baskets or money to the Salvation Army. This foundation can help people in poverty, wars and overall try to be peace makers of the world. They are currently in Africa helping people there.