poverty assignment
Poverty Assignment
Theme Topic: World Hunger and Poverty; How are Canadians Helping?
Kennedy, Gerard. "Food for All." Canadian Medical Association Journal. 04 Dec. 2007. Web. 09 Sept. 2011. .
Summary:
Every month, some 753 000 Canadians depend on charitable handouts from food banks to stave off hunger or alleviate undernourishment.
For more than 25 years, food banks have been the principal response to hunger in most of our major cities and smaller towns. Many food banks, which were meant to be temporary, have outlasted the recessions that gave rise to them and have been forced to acquire the trappings of permanency, including trucks, warehouses, paid staff, volunteers, and donated goods and services. In order to cure this country of it’s social needs, people must band together and help each other against hunger and poverty. Blame must not be placed with those in need, and helping hands should be given to institutions.
This article helped broaden my perspective on hunger and pverty in Canada. It looked more into how food banks and food drives are helping people. It was very encouraging to sign up for one of the groups.
Tarasuk, Valerie. "Low Income, Welfare and Nutritional Vulnerability." Canadian Medical Association Journal. 18 Mar. 2003. Web. 09 Sept. 2011. .
Summary:
Ever since food banks began to operate in Canadian communities in the early 1980s, public attention has been drawn to the food shortages experienced by low-income families. Food drives to collect food for the “hungry” have become a routine part of life. There remains only limited understanding of the day-to-day reality of food insecurity and the nutritional and health consequences of this problem. Lynn McIntyre and her colleagues study was undertaken to ask the chilling question whether, “in the context of chronic poverty, lone mothers in the Atlantic provinces deprived themselves of food in order to spare their children food deprivation.” They found that in severe poverty,
Theme Topic: World Hunger and Poverty; How are Canadians Helping?
Kennedy, Gerard. "Food for All." Canadian Medical Association Journal. 04 Dec. 2007. Web. 09 Sept. 2011. .
Summary:
Every month, some 753 000 Canadians depend on charitable handouts from food banks to stave off hunger or alleviate undernourishment.
For more than 25 years, food banks have been the principal response to hunger in most of our major cities and smaller towns. Many food banks, which were meant to be temporary, have outlasted the recessions that gave rise to them and have been forced to acquire the trappings of permanency, including trucks, warehouses, paid staff, volunteers, and donated goods and services. In order to cure this country of it’s social needs, people must band together and help each other against hunger and poverty. Blame must not be placed with those in need, and helping hands should be given to institutions.
This article helped broaden my perspective on hunger and pverty in Canada. It looked more into how food banks and food drives are helping people. It was very encouraging to sign up for one of the groups.
Tarasuk, Valerie. "Low Income, Welfare and Nutritional Vulnerability." Canadian Medical Association Journal. 18 Mar. 2003. Web. 09 Sept. 2011. .
Summary:
Ever since food banks began to operate in Canadian communities in the early 1980s, public attention has been drawn to the food shortages experienced by low-income families. Food drives to collect food for the “hungry” have become a routine part of life. There remains only limited understanding of the day-to-day reality of food insecurity and the nutritional and health consequences of this problem. Lynn McIntyre and her colleagues study was undertaken to ask the chilling question whether, “in the context of chronic poverty, lone mothers in the Atlantic provinces deprived themselves of food in order to spare their children food deprivation.” They found that in severe poverty,