Sunday, May 6, 2018

" 'I can go days without eating': Hunger rises in South Sudan"


Timea Mozsi

This article is about famine in South Sudan. The article describes several families’ situations to put a face to the problem. The issue is horrific and something that most of us can not even begin to fathom. People living in counties such as Ayod, are experiencing extreme scarcities of food and important resources such as health care. Many people try to survive on old fruits and vegetables and others try to gather what they can find growing on trees. The issue appears to be influenced greatly by the civil war in the country.

There are organizations that are meant to help, but if for whatever reason people miss registrations or are not eligible, they don’t receive the assistance. The article mentions the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization and the World Food Program, just to name a few. Some people go days without any food and many are afraid of starving to death. The only thing I can think of, is why is this still happening? And how could it be so if 40% of food produced in the United States is thrown away? It seems to me that there are extremely intelligent people in the world, we need to think of something to make this stop.


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