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Hunger In India

Hunger In India. By: Ca May Ng. What Can Hunger Do To You?. You body will start to feed on its own fat and body tissues. Between 8 to 12 weeks, you may lose about 50 percent of your bodyweight. Death. Map of India. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl. Timeline of India.

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Hunger In India

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  1. Hunger In India By: Ca May Ng

  2. What Can Hunger Do To You? • You body will start to feed on its own fat and body tissues. • Between 8 to 12 weeks, you may lose about 50 percent of your bodyweight. • Death

  3. Map of India • http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl

  4. Timeline of India

  5. What is ActionAid? • International development agency. • Fight poverty. • Started helping India since 1972.

  6. Problem: • Undernourished • Don’t get vitamin supplements • http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ • 4 million people will die this year • 50 percent of children death in India • Every 3.6 seconds 10 million people die of chronic hunger and hunger related diseases

  7. Last year, 7 million young children who have died in the developing world which is the equivalent of the entire population in Switzerland. • 20 Indians will sleep hungrily tonight. • 10 million people die every year. • Prostitutions. • Many young girls are dropping out of school to look for jobs.

  8. What the government should do • Government should organize a debt cancellation • Minimize birth rates • Should give better and free education for the children in India

  9. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ethicsinaction.asia/archive/2007/vol.-1-no.-2/india_mukesh.jpg&imgrefurl • http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://vervephoto.files.wordpress.com

  10. How outside groups are helping the locals • WFP ( United Nations World Food Programme), fed 98 million people • Micro Finance also helped by donating money to the locals http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl

  11. What the government is trying to do: • Reduce the cost of food. • Encourage and support food production in and around urban areas. • 3,00,000 young children are save by vitamin A supplementation.

  12. How I can help to overcome this obstacle • Donate money and teach them how to farm to make their own food. • Learning more about hunger and then spread my knowledge with others to create more awareness on the obstacle. • I can also eat less meat.

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