Starving Children Of The World Analysis

Deshawn Dazevedo
Ms. Delmaine
English 3
31 October 2013
Starving Children of the World: Analysis of the Effectiveness of the World’s Leading Hunger Organizations The child wakes up at dawn searching for food. His malnourished body is quaking with aches of hunger as he is stumbling along. The child becomes despaired and no longer thinks that he can go on. Then all of a sudden he comes to a clearing and he sees food. The child is overjoyed until he notices that there are other children bounding towards his treasure. The underfed and small child knows he is not going to make it. As he gets to the site there is nothing left for him. He then sees a woman enter the clearing who has kind eyes and she starts walking to him with her hand outstretched.
This organization feeds people through churches from Brazil, Malawi, Romania, Mongolia, to Indonesia. In total, LeSEA feeds only twenty three of the world’s least developed counties, excluding the United States, but they do support countries when they have experienced natural disasters. They also spend majority of the money that they have on program services to provide as much help as they can. 93 percent of their total budget goes to the program services, 6 percent goes to fundraising, and 1 percent goes to the administration. LeSEA also gives tax deductions to people who donate to the organization. The goal that LeSEA has is to feed 100,000 children physically, educationally, and spiritually each day. Physically they provide nourishment to the children by giving them food that is nutritious, so that their hunger is sated. They feed the children rice and food that they collect through food drives. They provide educational nourishment by giving the children basic educational skills that they can use to complete basic tasks in life. They teach the children spiritually by providing them information about Christ, and they also give biblical teaching, which is what this organization is based on. They believe in doing things through Christ, so they promote the teachings of Christ at the churches that they past the food out to. This way the
They feed people from Afghanistan, China, Ethiopia, Haiti, to the United States of America. MercyCorps have many goals that they want to complete, such aiding in agriculture and food, children and youth, conflict and governance, disaster preparedness, economic opportunity, education, emergency response, environment, health, innovations, water, and women and gender. They focus on places in transition by helping people who come from countries that may not be as economically prosperous, such as Haiti. MercyCorps helps with food and agriculture by distributing food to people who are in emergency relief, and they focus on long-term solutions that strengthen harvests and livestock to aid the citizens of the country. This organization helps the children and youth by sheltering them and nurturing them through education, sports, and training them to be successful in jobs. They help with conflict and governance by helping countries rebuild after war, or by creating a bridge to the government officials and the people of the country so that the leadership can be more effective. MercyCorps helps with disaster preparedness by helping countries create response plans and strategies that can help people cope when disasters come so that they are standing stranded. They also provide economic help to these countries by