Famine In African Children Essay

Rotting corpses and a river of blood is something that we wish no person would have to see and hope that children would be far from included in these bloody wars. There is no hiding from the fact that children not only in Africa but in the Middle-East as well will experience this sight everyday. Written by Ishmael Beah, “A Long Way Gone” shows whether they are child soldiers or fleeing refugees every passing corpse will continue to scar their minds. The dead oppress these kids more and more to the sight of massacred villages until they’re surprised to see what used to be an average village to them. A village that is breathing life not breeding

The parents realize that a sad existence of shame,and agony is in their child's future, if they stay in Tanzania. As Robert Penn Warren highlights in

In the first chapter, Zahra summarizes how children became the “quintessential victims of war”. She does this by exposing four cases in Europe before World War II: the Armenian genocide, Eastern European famine, transnational families, and the Spanish civil war. Several international organizations emerged and changed the focus of caring for the children. Instead of focusing on material and physical needs, people became concerned with the psychological needs of children.

This novel was a very enlightening, firsthand account of the atrocities of civil war that not only affect many countries and their citizens, but especially children. Ishmael Beah was separated from his family at age 12 because he and his brother were away from their home in the small country of West Africa known as Sierra Leone, performing in a rap group with friends, when their home village was attacked. Ishmael, his brother and their friends wandered from village to village in search of food and shelter among the confusion, violence, and uncertainty of the war. Ishmael’s recounting of his experiences is emotionally disheartening and hard for someone like me to truly fathom, but yet I do know that these atrocities exist in our modern world.

“Before the war, I had a very simple childhood…..and that changed very quickly” (Ishmael Beah-Child Soldier). Imagine the life of an American child, then think, what was life like for a child in Sierra Leone in 1991?... Abuse and torture, leaving you breathless. A child soldier who thereafter, lives with the emotional effects of war looking for a pathway to humanity. If he survives, the flashbacks will haunt him, yet he journeys on. Welcome to childhood... in Sierra Leone.

Instability and uncertainty, though culturally subjective, are ubiquitous to humankind. The abstraction of life and death has engendered religions, music, art, and folklore. In Dave Egger’s What is the What?, a narrative recount of the life of Sudanese refugee Valentino Achak, the motif of the unknown, the enigmatic What, subtly guides the child and adult Achak in Africa and the United States respectively. Introduced by Achak’s father as part of a creation tale, the What serves as a mysterious and unseen force in the lives of the African refugees. It is the embodiment of variable ambiguity, with neither consistent definition nor closure. Achak’s lack of an understanding of the What parallels his lack of understanding of his surroundings

The article which I chose to summarize is “Clean Your Plate. There are People in Starving in Africa!”, written by Timothy W. Jones. This article addresses the excessive wastefulness of food and resources in the United States. I particularly agree with how the author describes, not only the amount of food that is thrown out, but also the amount of money that it translates to. I would recommend this article to businesses, in particular, as it could be an eye-opener. The author examines three different perspectives of wastefulness: Food loss in general, losses as they relate to the farming industry and the wastefulness of food in the retail food industry. The author’s purpose of this article is not only to highlight the fiscal irresponsibility

When you watch commercials depicting starvation in African countries like Mali, do you wonder what it would actually take to end hunger? Plenty of answers appear successful in concept, but have unforeseen complications, such as building factories in Africa to produce and process biofuels. And other obstacles such as civil wars, poor sanitation, and massive debt keep countries like Democratic Republic of the Congo from advancing. Maybe we complicate the solution to the hunger crisis by focusing on economy instead of food sustainability. Before a country can advance economically and technologically, it has to be able to feed its inhabitants. Therefore, by altering the crops currently grown in the African savannas to create agricultural sustainability, it will diminish hunger, and lead to economic growth.

When people ask me what I think the biggest problem in the America is today, my answer doesn’t really hit me until I least expect it to. I grew up loving family get togethers, celebrations and any other event resulting in my family going all out on cooking and making sure there are seconds for everyone there. No body left a family get together hungry. I remember sitting down many times and not being able to finish all of the food I thought I could. The silent walk to the trash can trying to have let no one see everything I wasted, I humbly slid past the crowd. It’s not until that very moment a family member says “You’re not going to eat that?” “That is such a waste of food.” Just then it would hit me and I would feel bad. Reminiscing on all

Many problems plague the United States as a country that spans a vast swath of land, contains many over exploited natural resources, and houses 320 million people that come from all stretches of the globe, but one of the single biggest problems is hunger. Child hunger in the United States is at the forefront of this issue. The helpless youth of today quite often become the hopeless adults of tomorrow when their basic needs are not met. This country has enough food to provide its citizens with all of their nutritional needs, but just like so many other expansive problems, distribution is the crux of the matter. With children as the focus, we must hone in on a means to bring the food and children together on a consistent basis. Education in this

This web page's goal is to introduce the visitor to the problem of world hunger and provide ways to access more information through books and other web sites. The page was created as a final project for an Environmental History class held at the University of Vermont spring semester 2000.

In Jeffrey Gettleman’s article entitled “Armed and Under Aged,” he quotes the U.N. and human-rights groups saying, “The Somali government is using hundreds of children, some as young as 9, on the front lines.”(2010 p.1). This quote shows that some children as young as nine are being pressured into fighting for the

War is one of the principal reasons why most children become orphans. This phenomenon is quite common in Africa, the Middle East, and most parts of the world. This study would primarily be conducted in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital city where we find three basic types of orphans that are representative of orphans throughout the country: street orphans, orphans in institutions or orphanages, and orphans that live with extended family or in structured homes. A recent Newsweek study examines the challenges that Liberia faces of acclimating back in to society more than 38,000 children who were former child soldiers, cooks, grenades handlers and even sex slaves in recent Liberian wars (MacDougall, 2013). Following the wars,

Take a moment and picture a child half naked in the streets. His body has been harshly neglected. Little to no calf muscles exist. His ribs are plainly countable. One, two, three up his left side. You can do the same to his right. Malnutrition only vaguely begins to describe his condition. The worst of anorexia doesn’t even compare to this child’s inhumane state. As for shelter, he lives in a dilapidated hut. Food is a luxury, as the child may be fed only three or four times a week. He’s expected to die by the age of five due to severe malnutrition and disease. This is the grim portrait of an Ethiopian child in absolute poverty. His life doesn’t allow for the basic essentials of food, shelter, or clothing.

World hunger has been a constant problem throughout the ages. It is a problem that should be able to be solved easily, yet there are still 1.02 billion undernourished people worldwide. With the world population being 6.7 billion people, and the Earth producing more than enough food for this amount of people, why is it that there are hungry, malnourished people all around the globe?