Wednesday, May 21, 2008

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.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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.