Assigned Blog #7
World hunger and poverty are a major problem in our society! What are people doing to end it? That is what I’m going to be telling you about it! I will explain the goals/targets on the problem, why is it a goal, and if the goal has made progress.
There is one goal for world hunger and poverty, which is to end it! There is three targets for this problem they are; Halve the people who receive less than $1.25 income, achieve a productive employment and work place, and halve the people who suffer from hunger.
Why do people live in such poverty? Well, people live in poverty because they are living off of $1.25 a day! That is not much money at all! This is a major problem in our world! About four out of five people living in extreme poverty live in Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. This is a goal that needs to be taken into action right away! This issue is urgent! The world has made progress with this issue. The target for reducing poverty rates was met five years of the deadline! Now that’s way better than waiting till the year it was due.
The next issue is to have a productive and decent work place for everyone. That means women and young adults too. Researchers show that there is 456 million workers living below $1.25 a day. That number has declined a couple years ago, but this is still a major issue, that needs to be taken care of. There is a lot of poorly paid jobs out there in the world. The number of poor workers decreased 158 million from 2000 to 2011. This has been making progress, but there is still a lot more people out in the world who are only making a $1.25 a day.
The final issue I’m going to be talking about is halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. Everybody eats at least three times a day, if not more, but there are some people out there in world who are lucky to eat once a day if that, maybe even every other day. The world’s problem with this issue is that people are starving! 850 million people suffer from hunger. In the article it says there are no signs of improvement in Eastern Asia since 2000. I hope they find ways to end world hunger because this is a major issue.
There is a lot of major issues going on in our world today, but these are probably the three most main ones! I wish the world could have no problems at all so everyone could be happy! People need jobs that pay more than a $1.25, they need a good work environment, and they need food. I hope people find a way to conquer all the issues the world has!
I got my information from here.
The two pictures I have on here is the one on the left is the MDG's poster for poverty and the picture on the left is for world hunger.
Comments
Well done Tiffanie!