Team 1 - Hunger Digital Story

This is the outline I have created for the team 1 digital story on World Hunger. This outline is based off of a draft of the script Zamantha has written for us, which is shown below.

Hunger…we face this fact everyday of our lives. But do we know the real meaning of being hungry; of having to face day to day going without food. This is a world tragedy that is going on right under our noses.

“Did you know that 795 million people – or one in nine people in the world do not have enough to eat?”

“That 98% of the world undernourished people live in developing countries?”

“Hunger occurs in Asia (525.6 million), Sub-Saharan Africa (214 million), Latin America and the Caribbean (37 million).”

These countries are facing these struggles with no resources to change the way that things need to be. There are people everyday that are throwing away food that could be useful.

“60 percent of the worlds hungry are women.”

“50 percent of pregnant women in developing countries lack proper maternal care, resulting in approximately 300,000 maternal deaths annually from childbirth.”

“1 out of 6 infants are born with a low birth weight in developing countries.”

“Nearly half of all deaths in children under 5 are attributable to under-nutrition. This translates into the unnecessary loss of about 3 million young lives a year.”

“Every 10 seconds, a child dies from hunger-related diseases.”

These are facts that we have to face and we have to take action to change this and finally put an end to world hunger. Everyday a child dies. Where they are supposed to be living their lives and having a great time being young they have to worry about when they are not going to feel pain anymore. We have to change, the world has to change. We have to work together to get to this goal and to make sure that in the coming years these statistics lower and become a passing time.

The ways that we can help are to donate money; any amount of money can change a child’s life in more ways then one. We can also donate food and cans as well.

To make the change we have to want to help. These organization will help us get there. We need to start thinking about the future, and that is when no child will ever go hungry again.

Resources

http://www.thp.org/knowledge-center/know-your-world-facts-about-hunger-poverty/

https://www.hungerreliefinternational.org/programs/hunger-and-nutrition/

http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/