Hunger and Poverty

Hunger is everywhere we look, in Africa and even here in our city. Hunger exists because of poverty and poverty exist because of the economic crisis. Hungers principal cause is as I said poverty, many people are dying of hunger because they do not have enough money to pay for water and basic foods. If they have a little bit of money what they do is get the cheapest type of food they can find and buy as much as they can so they can survive a few more days.

Many of the foods that these people can buy actually affect more their health than help it. Because to have good health we have to eat a variety of foods, if we eat to much of one food depending of what it is, we can gaing weight or have some other health problems that can make us end up in hospitals. But these people cannot even affor to buy food, how are they going to afford a hospital if they need it? Lucky in many places we have instutions that open on week-end monrings that serve food to homeless people and othe people that can not afford to buy food, besie week-ends they are also opened on holidays, so poor people can also enjoy those days. These insitutions are made possible by peoples donations and the people who are there to give out the food are all voluntaries.

There are also other types of institutions for poor people, there are shelters that take in poor people for the night and they open every night, leting in each time diferent homeless people, they have to line up and wait; but still there is not enough room for all of them.

Hunger is a terrible thing in the world and maybe this is one problem that we will never be able to solve for completly, but still we try, we can make more of these institutions that help homeless people and people that can not afford to buy good type of foods.