Aliyyah Suleiman-Adamu
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CDV 101
20th September 2014
EDUCATION THE CATALYST TO MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDG)
First of all what is millennium development goals? In my own definition or as I will like to put it, this are the activities or steps that have to be taken to eradicate and take down the worlds ' most pressing problems.
The first Millennium Development Goal I will like to talk about is the first one. Which is
1. ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER
First of all what is Poverty? According to Investopedia, Poverty is a state or condition in which a person or community lacks the financial resources and essentials to enjoy a minimum standard of life and well-being that 's considered acceptable in society. Poverty is mainly
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There are different definitions of "hunger" but the one most suitable for this context is; a craving or anurgent need for food or a specific nutrient , it is also an uneasy sensation caused by the lack of food. Hunger is one of the global challenges that takes millions of lives every year. Hunger is caused by quite a number of things such as illiteracy and most especially poverty.
Finally to eradicating extreme hunger and poverty, one must consider all the factors that make it extreme for a reason. These factors are that there are lazy people who don 't want to work, high rate of underdevelopment and the most important factor of them all the exceeding rate of illiteracy. As Joseph Wresinski said "Extreme poverty is the work of mankind and only mankind can destroy it.”.
The common negative catalyst between extreme poverty and hunger is illiteracy. In order to accomplish the eradication of these two catastrophic global calamities, eradicating illiteracy should be top priority. Therefore, education is the key to the eradication of extreme hunger and poverty. With education, one is able to know ways to solve problems and survive life on a daily basis, these problems are of course poverty and hunger.
REDUCTION IN THE RATE OF CHILD
The purpose of “Why, You Reckon?” by Langston Hughes is to accurately display, through the times of that century and human emotion, that despite money, power, and the color of your skin there can still be an unhappiness of the soul. There is evidence in the beginning of the short story of two men’s unhappiness in life the symbol of them being uncontent was their hunger. “Man, ain’t you hongry.... Well, sir, I’m tellin’ you, I was so tired and hongry and cold that night.” (253- 254).
The poor are not responsible for hungry lives, without water and electricity. There are deep inequalities and fundamental deficiencies of social organization. The problem of hunger is not only a question of food production (the bigger, the better) but also of access to food and equity. There are no winners and losers. With these degrees of exclusion, we 're all losers.
Who do you imagine when someone says food insecurity or hunger? Do you imagine someone severely underweight? Or maybe children in third world countries because surely hunger isn 't here in the United states. But, in fact, hunger is here in the United States, the documentary A Place at the Table defines someone who is food insecure as someone who does not know where their next meal is coming from, they have no idea how to manage, find, or afford food.
Poverty is affecting billions of people around our world and the number is growing with each day. Many people think they can avoid the effects of poverty, but it is something that affects all of our daily lives. Many people see poverty as a person who lacks money, although this is true poverty is caused by many more things than being without money. Just the fact that one in two children live in poverty can help people see clearly the impact it has on our world. Poverty truly does influence the type of care and treatment a person will receive when they need it.
In many countries living in extremely poor conditions, not only is basic health an issue but also the lack of education. Although it is a necessity, “more than 72 million children of primary education age are not in school and 759 million adults are illiterate” (Rights to Education 1). The deprivation of education should be taken serious if a change is wanted. People need to become aware of how important education is and the benefit that it has.
The significance of education cannot be stated enough, which is an investment to a better future. Getting an education is one of the most powerful things a person can ever obtain. It is crucial to the overall development of the individual and the society as a whole. When individuals do not have the option of getting an education due to the cost of the schools as well as the lack of schools itself. For those living in poverty it can be difficult to earn the same amount of education as other people who are considered middle or high class.
Hunger in Ethiopia Every day the world develops widely and jumps great leaps in technology. Yet lots of unfortunate people die every minute caused by famines, civil wars, and rapacity of some who rape others rights and dreams of decent lives. Today in the 21th century shamefully, there are a lot of starve, literally, to death. Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake. It is the most extreme form of malnutrition.
Many of which can be resolved. Not through an aggressive manner such as wars, but in peaceful ways as well. Education is only food for the mind, feeding the mind with more knowledge will only benefits the it. Gaining more knowledge allows the mind to develop and understand various things more deeply. Another prime example is illustrated as Malala says “Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin].
There are a lot of problems in the world like poverty and pollution but hunger seems to be the most severe to me. There are so many different types of people who are famished most of the day just because they are homeless or because of their race. Studies show former foster youth, L.G.B.T. students and students of color are at substantially increased risk. One group of people who are in hunger the most is college students. College alone is so expensive that a lot of students can’t afford to even feed themselves.
More than 95% of people participate in donating to charity, and in the past twenty years poverty has been cut in half. This is good news, however there are still millions of people in poverty and world hunger. But hunger is only one thing humans living in poverty have to deal with. Another problem people in poverty have to deal with is disease, and health. 270,000,000 children have no access to healthcare (http://www.care.org/work/poverty/child-poverty/facts ), and 1 in 5 children lack safe drinking water
Because of these issues, society should develop better strategies to help these people in need to eliminate the growing poverty level through the world. These strategies could include
I agree with the assertion that in the context of Sustainable Development ‘the reality of life today is that the economy dominates environment and society. The Concept of Sustainable Development Sustainable development refers to “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs”, and was produced by the Brundtland report (WCED, 1987). The concept also takes into account the needs of the poor in developing countries by outlining achievable objectives of importance (WCED, 1987).
•The want of scarcity of food in a country. •A strong desire or craving. World hunger refers to malnutrition or under nutrition. Under nutrition and malnutrition is when you’re not getting enough food that the body needs. World hunger comes with many global effects.
Poverty is defined as the state of being unable to fulfill basic needs of human beings. Poverty is the lack of resources leading to physical deprivation. Poor people are unable to fulfill basic survival needs such as food, clothing, shelter. These are the needs of lowest order and assume top priority. Poor people are unknown of their lack of voice, power, and rights, which leads them to exploitation.
Even the number of hungry people in the world exceeds the total population of US and European Union. Extreme hunger and mal¬nutrition remain as blockade to development and creates a set up from which people cannot easily go out. Hunger and malnutrition mean less productive individuals, who are more susceptible to disease and often unable to earn much more and improve their livelihoods. There are nearly 800 million people in this world who suffer from hunger worldwide, the major¬ity