Feed My Starving Children
Hungry Children in the World
General Purpose: To persuade A. How many of you are worried about where your next meal will come from? Are you unsure of how you’re going to purchase next week’s groceries or what you will be feeding your children for dinner tonight? This probably isn’t something most of you think about from day to day. When you are hungry, you eat. It’s easy for you to grab a sandwich, order a pizza, or run through the drive thru when you are on the go. However, there are many families, not just in other countries, but here in the United States as well, that are going hungry every day. According to kidshealth.org, a child dies from malnutrition and related causes every 6 seconds. B. Children all over the world are going hungry and are in need of help. Organizations like Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) help these children get the food they need. I will be telling you about Feed My Starving Children today to show you how they are feeding hungry children in the United States and all over the world with the help of volunteers like you. C. Tonight I will present the epidemic of malnourished children and the effects it has on them.
II. SHOWING THE NEED A. Poverty is one of the main contributing factors to child hunger in the United States. According to worldhunger.org, 14.7 million children in the U.S. are facing poverty. That number is up 20% since the year 2000 because of the economy, loss of jobs, and home foreclosures. 25% (1 in 4) of American children have food insecurity which can cause malnutrition. Food insecurity is being without consistent access to enough nutritious food to live a healthy life. B. The effects of malnutrition can be severe and even include death as I previously stated. The 3 most common ways that malnutrition appears in children are stunting, wasting, and being underweight. Stunting is being too short for their age, wasting is having a low weight for their height (also have a markedly increased chance for death), and
General Purpose: To persuade A. How many of you are worried about where your next meal will come from? Are you unsure of how you’re going to purchase next week’s groceries or what you will be feeding your children for dinner tonight? This probably isn’t something most of you think about from day to day. When you are hungry, you eat. It’s easy for you to grab a sandwich, order a pizza, or run through the drive thru when you are on the go. However, there are many families, not just in other countries, but here in the United States as well, that are going hungry every day. According to kidshealth.org, a child dies from malnutrition and related causes every 6 seconds. B. Children all over the world are going hungry and are in need of help. Organizations like Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) help these children get the food they need. I will be telling you about Feed My Starving Children today to show you how they are feeding hungry children in the United States and all over the world with the help of volunteers like you. C. Tonight I will present the epidemic of malnourished children and the effects it has on them.
II. SHOWING THE NEED A. Poverty is one of the main contributing factors to child hunger in the United States. According to worldhunger.org, 14.7 million children in the U.S. are facing poverty. That number is up 20% since the year 2000 because of the economy, loss of jobs, and home foreclosures. 25% (1 in 4) of American children have food insecurity which can cause malnutrition. Food insecurity is being without consistent access to enough nutritious food to live a healthy life. B. The effects of malnutrition can be severe and even include death as I previously stated. The 3 most common ways that malnutrition appears in children are stunting, wasting, and being underweight. Stunting is being too short for their age, wasting is having a low weight for their height (also have a markedly increased chance for death), and