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. …show more content…
She guides him to an area where he sees other children that seem on the verge of death. His stomach growls and he gets embarrassed as the woman looked at him with a concerned expression. She takes him inside of a building and sits him down, while motioning with her hands for him to stay there. He looks around and tries to comprehend what is going on. The lady comes back to him with a bowl that has steam emanating from it. As she is feeding him, he notices that the shirt she is wearing has the letters UNICEF on them, but he is unable to make sense of what this shirt means. After he finishes, he is satisfied and no longer feels the pangs of hunger he had felt once before, and he walks back into the forest on his way back home. Unlike the child, most people would be able to comprehend that the shirt the woman had on did not just have random letters but actually was an acronym for UNICEF. This organization helps fight hunger, like many other organizations in the world. The most effective hunger relief organizations in the world are UNICEF, LeSEA Feed The Hungry, Free Rice, Feeding America, and MercyCorps because they provide excellent hunger relief services to people in need and they have programs to promote, protect, and educate humanity. UNICEF is a leader in providing hunger relief services to people due to their programs that increase nutrition, education, and gender equality rights. Initially, UNICEF was called United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, but in 1953 it was changed to United Nation Children’s Fund. They feed countries all over the world, ranging from the United States, Haiti, Viet Nam, Djibouti, Zimbabwe, India, New Zealand, to Sierra Leone. In total, UNICEF feeds over 190 countries in total. They also have many goals to do with nutrition, and one of the goals that they have is to increase micronutrients in the diet of pregnant women and children to increase their health. Within this goal they have three sub-goals that they are trying to accomplish, which are to increase iodine consumption to lower the occurrence of the iodine deficiency, decrease anemia, and to increase vitamin A. Their solution to decrease iodine deficiency is to work with other organizations by working on Universal Salt Iodization. The organizations that they work with are salt producers, governments around the world, the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, The World Health Organization, the Micronutrient Initiative, the World Bank, Kiwanis International, teachers, consumer organizations, and children in classrooms worldwide. China has been one of the most successful stories because in the 1990s, their iodization rates rose from 39 to 95 percent within ten years. Their solution to the iron deficiency issues is to give iron-folate supplements to pregnant mothers, so that the children can benefit from the iron also. They are also going to provide flour in diets to provide iron, which is cheap and beneficial. The solution to their third goal is to provide vitamin A supplements, fortifying staples, and making sure that food is diversified. They also work with many other organizations, and support 95 per cent of the world’s vitamin A supplements for developing countries. Feeding is not the only thing that UNICEF focuses on, they also attempt to provide basic education and gender equality for all children, HIV/AIDS treatment for pregnant mother and children, child protection for children that may be abused and exploited, and policy advocacy and partnerships, which shows how UNICEF is one of the top organizations for giving hunger relief, due to the diversity that this organization within it (UNICEF). LeSEA Feed The Hungry is an organization that feeds people who are in need and they also educate their client spiritually and intellectually.
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 …show more content…
children will have a basis in the teachings of Christ, and will hopefully promote the teachings of Christ, and then in turn will promote the organization. This organization is one of the best due to it providing education, and allowing churches to provide the food, which will give it a more personal level because the congregation knows more about where the food should go rather than LeSEA because they are unaware of the particular areas in the community that are more needy than others (LeSEA). Free Rice is a widely known organization due to many schools promoting its use when students have down time in school. Edwards Middle School, for example, used to make their students get on Free Rice after the writing tests or when the students had free time when they were in the computer lab. Free Rice has two main goals that they focus on, and these goals are to provide education to everyone for free and to help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. Free Rice itself is a website that asks questions on subjects, such as humanities, English, math, chemistry, language learning, geography, human anatomy, and SAT prep. The way that the website works is the users choose a subject which is located at the top of the page, and then they are taken to a screen that has questions pertaining to the subject. The users will then be able to answer the questions, and then they click on what they believe the answer is, then they will be told whether or not they are right. When the users get a question right, they are then told that their answer is correct, and they have donated ten grains of rice. The exchange rate is ten grains of rice per one question. As the users answer more questions correctly, the difficulty of the questions goes up in what Free Rice refers to as levels. The users can also manually change the level of the questions if they wish to do so. Answering the questions correctly is what helps them maintain their second goal, which is to provide hunger relief. The rice is paid for by sponsors, and then it is donated to the people through the United Nations World Food Programme (Free Rice). Feeding America is a leader in hunger relief due to their summer feeding programs, after school feeding programs, and their education programs. As the name would suggest, this organization feeds residents located in the United States of America. Feeding America is also considered America’s leading domestic hunger-relief, with it feeding more than thirty seven million people each year. Feeding America’s goal is to feed America’s hungry people through food banks and to involve the United States to help fight against hunger. Feeding America provides healthy, fresh food to the hungry Americans, safe places for the hungry children to have a meal, emergency relief for people who are in disastrous situations, and they also work with adults who experience poverty and starvation to break the cycle that they are having. Another interesting thing that Feeding America has done is launch the Kids Café Program. This is a program that was started by Feeding America in 1992, and it provides free meals and snacks to low-income children through a variety of community areas where children normally go afterschool. Places such as the Boys and Girls Club, churches, or public schools, and the Kids Café also offer the children a safe place to go to after school where they can be involved in recreational, educational, and social activities. The Kids Café programs also offer education based on nutrition throughout the year to educate people who are not knowledge on this subject. Another program that they offer is the BackPack Program, which is a program that distributes backpacks to children at the end of the school week so that they can have food to eat over the weekend. They distribute almost 230,000 backpacks to children every year. Another program that they support is the Summer Food Program. This summer helps feed children over the summer while they are not in school due to the lack of funds that the parents have. The Summer Food program feeds over 130,000 children through the food banks each year. Another program that they have is the School Pantry Program which sets up food pantries in school to give low-income students and their families’ food to eat. This program has fed roughly 70,000 children since its inception (Feeding America). MercyCorps is also a leading hunger relief organization due to them offering many opportunities to people in need such as disaster awareness, promotion of youth, and education.
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
providing financing, equipment, training, or technical support to the people that are in need. This way the people can find jobs, or open businesses to promote commerce within these countries to raise the standard of living for these countries. Another thing that MercyCorps does is they also provide education to occupants of countries so that they can prosper, and help the people in the country have a better future due to the knowledge that is gained (A Girl Can).
Many people believe that these organizations are flawless, but this is not true. UNICEF is seen to be this benevolent organization that helps out everyone, and it seems to do no wrong, but even this organization has skeletons in its closet. MacAuslan states that “This approach argues further that the critical period for individuals’ lifelong nutritional security is from conception to 5 years, and therefore the ‘the most critically vulnerable groups are developing fetuses, children up to the age of three and women before and during pregnancy and while they are breastfeeding’” (qdn MacAuslan 405). This is a very interesting topic because most people would not know this, and this could upset some people who are donating to this cause unaware of this information. They could think that their money is going to all of the children, or that the money is being spread thoroughly, but majority of the money is not. The younger children cannot fend for themselves if they are in horrid circumstances, but neither can children over the age of five. The chances of these children finding food themselves are very slim, and this is unfair to them because they are not given the same opportunities as the other children just because they are a certain age, but the organization is supposed to feed them just as well as the smaller children. The issue with LeSEA is the fact that the food that gets passed out or donated goes through churches, which is controversial itself because not everyone believes in the same religion, and some churches are extreme with their beliefs. This could make it harder for some churches are extreme with their beliefs. This could make it harder for some people who need to get it due to religious issues, which is not fair on their part because they have different viewpoints and morals.
Even though these organizations have their issues, the good that is being done heavily outweighs the bad. UNICEF feeds children amongst many other things over 190 different countries all over the world, and even though they focus on certain children, many of the children are fed, and they have programs which focus on older children that have AIDS so they get to eat. UNICEF also has many fundraisers to help promote these programs such as the Trick-or-Treat system, and people walk around raising money for the children. LeSEA also does many good things, such as giving education and also feeding people all over the world. Religion is controversial, but eating food is more important if one is starving, so the person eating the food does not have to let the religious information impact them, they can just listen to what the people to get the food, and then go on their way after they are finished eating. UNICEF, LeSEA Feed The Hungry, Free Rice, Feeding America, and MercyCorps are the top organizations because they provide excellent hunger relief opportunities to people in need. They also provide assistance in other areas of life including economic assistance, emergency relief, and educational benefits. A solution to the hunger problem would start domestically in America so that the people in our country can be fed and then they could use their energy to help the world eventually be fed. The idea that would be ideal is similar to the Minnesota Hunger Impact Exchange. “The goal of the Minnesota Hunger Impact Exchange event was to foster innovation to fight persistent hunger that is costing the state more than $1.2 billion per year”(PR, Newswire). This organization starts state wide and it is funded by many organizations such as General Mills. This organization is working on feeding people in the state itself, which is how the country of the United States should do it. If every state in the country started a feeding organization, then the programs could actually pinpoint areas and it would be more effective. Then large corporations could donate to these programs and everyone is going to be fed. Then after everyone is fed and people could start America branching out and feeding other countries, which would be helpful and then the world would healthy, and could focus on the prosperity of modern day civilization.
Annotated Bibliography
"About.Freerice.com." Not Your Average Online Trivia Game. United Nations World Food Programme. Web. 8 Oct. 2013. This website was an informational website which gave information on what Freerice does and how the website accomplishes its endeavors. The website seemed to be non-biased, because it just gave facts on what the organization does. The website also seems credible due to the fact that the organization that backs up this program is the United Nations World Food Programme which is an actual organization that fights hunger. This website will be useful when information is going to be needed to be given on this topic in the essay.
"A Girl Can." Mercy Corps. Mercy Corps, n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2013. This website gave information on what Mercy Corps does and also where Mercy Corps does its work. This website was purely information and there were not any biases present. This website seems like it is credible due to the website being created by the organization itself, and the website also has contact information. Another fact that made me think the organization was credible was due to the fact that it gives tax exemptions. I believe that this website will be credible in the future because I could pull information from this website to aid in my claims to support my thesis.
"Feeding America: Hunger-Relief." Feedingamerica.org. Feeding America. Web. 9 Oct. 2013. This was also another informational website that was also non-biased because it strictly gave information about what the organization has done and is doing right now. The website also gives relevant information on what is going on that could affect the organization including things from the white house that affects this information. The website seems credible due to it being created by the organization and also because it gives tax exemptions which like the organization above, seems to be noticed by the government which gives it extra credibility. This website seems like it would be useful in my essay because it gives a lot of information on the organization for me to use to back up my claims.
"Lesea Global Feed The Hungry." Feed The Hungry. LeSEA Global Feed The Hungry, Inc,. Web. 13 Oct. 2013. This website was also another informational site that gave information on this organization. The website was informational and there was not much bias with the information. The only bias present was the fact that the organization promotes religion. This is not a bad thing but not everyone agrees with this, and religion is a personal concept so this is bias. This website seemed credible because the site was created by the organization itself, and the organization also gives a tax exemption, which shows that this organization is also credible by the government also.
PR, Newswire. "Hunger-Free Minnesota Awards Innovation Grants to Fight Hunger at Minnesota Hunger Impact Exchange." PR Newswire US 11 Apr. 2013: Regional Business News. Web. 30 Oct. 2013. This article was located in a Business News article and it was talking about how successful Minnesota is with fighting hunger. It went into debt about how the program works and how many people are donating to the program. The program is very successful and it helps out a lot of people. It is also fed so many people in the country, and they are expelling a lot of hunger out of their state. This is also a non-biased informational source because majority of the information is factual, and there were no biases throughout the paper, it just told what the organization has done.
MacAuslan, Ian. "Hunger, Discourse And The Policy Process: How Do Conceptualizations Of The Problem Of 'Hunger ' Affect Its Measurement And Solution?." European Journal Of Development Research 21.3 (2009): 397-418. Web. 11 Oct. 2013.
This was an article that was located in a scholarly journal, but was also published online. This article gave more information on UNICEF and what the organization believes important that would not be found on the website. The article stated that UNICEF believes that the most important people to feed are pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and children from ages 3 to 5, and then the rest may still be taken care of, but are not as important as the previously stated people. The article seemed to credible due to it using lot of quotes and diagrams to back itself up, and also because it was published in a Scholarly Journal. This article seems like it would be useful to me when I have to form my counterclaims because it gave information on UNICEF that I could use against the organization further in the progress of my essay.
UNICEF - What We Do. United Nations Children’s Fund. Web. 7 Oct. 2013 This source was a webpage that gave information on what UNICEF does and it answered any questions that I had about UNICEF. It was purely information without any biases, and it was also a primary source because the information came from the people in the organization. The source is credible because the website is published by the organization, and it has contact information also which helps the credibility of the website. This website is a good source and will be used in my essay due to the information that it provides regarding my topic.
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. …show more content…
She guides him to an area where he sees other children that seem on the verge of death. His stomach growls and he gets embarrassed as the woman looked at him with a concerned expression. She takes him inside of a building and sits him down, while motioning with her hands for him to stay there. He looks around and tries to comprehend what is going on. The lady comes back to him with a bowl that has steam emanating from it. As she is feeding him, he notices that the shirt she is wearing has the letters UNICEF on them, but he is unable to make sense of what this shirt means. After he finishes, he is satisfied and no longer feels the pangs of hunger he had felt once before, and he walks back into the forest on his way back home. Unlike the child, most people would be able to comprehend that the shirt the woman had on did not just have random letters but actually was an acronym for UNICEF. This organization helps fight hunger, like many other organizations in the world. The most effective hunger relief organizations in the world are UNICEF, LeSEA Feed The Hungry, Free Rice, Feeding America, and MercyCorps because they provide excellent hunger relief services to people in need and they have programs to promote, protect, and educate humanity. UNICEF is a leader in providing hunger relief services to people due to their programs that increase nutrition, education, and gender equality rights. Initially, UNICEF was called United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, but in 1953 it was changed to United Nation Children’s Fund. They feed countries all over the world, ranging from the United States, Haiti, Viet Nam, Djibouti, Zimbabwe, India, New Zealand, to Sierra Leone. In total, UNICEF feeds over 190 countries in total. They also have many goals to do with nutrition, and one of the goals that they have is to increase micronutrients in the diet of pregnant women and children to increase their health. Within this goal they have three sub-goals that they are trying to accomplish, which are to increase iodine consumption to lower the occurrence of the iodine deficiency, decrease anemia, and to increase vitamin A. Their solution to decrease iodine deficiency is to work with other organizations by working on Universal Salt Iodization. The organizations that they work with are salt producers, governments around the world, the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, The World Health Organization, the Micronutrient Initiative, the World Bank, Kiwanis International, teachers, consumer organizations, and children in classrooms worldwide. China has been one of the most successful stories because in the 1990s, their iodization rates rose from 39 to 95 percent within ten years. Their solution to the iron deficiency issues is to give iron-folate supplements to pregnant mothers, so that the children can benefit from the iron also. They are also going to provide flour in diets to provide iron, which is cheap and beneficial. The solution to their third goal is to provide vitamin A supplements, fortifying staples, and making sure that food is diversified. They also work with many other organizations, and support 95 per cent of the world’s vitamin A supplements for developing countries. Feeding is not the only thing that UNICEF focuses on, they also attempt to provide basic education and gender equality for all children, HIV/AIDS treatment for pregnant mother and children, child protection for children that may be abused and exploited, and policy advocacy and partnerships, which shows how UNICEF is one of the top organizations for giving hunger relief, due to the diversity that this organization within it (UNICEF). LeSEA Feed The Hungry is an organization that feeds people who are in need and they also educate their client spiritually and intellectually.
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 …show more content…
children will have a basis in the teachings of Christ, and will hopefully promote the teachings of Christ, and then in turn will promote the organization. This organization is one of the best due to it providing education, and allowing churches to provide the food, which will give it a more personal level because the congregation knows more about where the food should go rather than LeSEA because they are unaware of the particular areas in the community that are more needy than others (LeSEA). Free Rice is a widely known organization due to many schools promoting its use when students have down time in school. Edwards Middle School, for example, used to make their students get on Free Rice after the writing tests or when the students had free time when they were in the computer lab. Free Rice has two main goals that they focus on, and these goals are to provide education to everyone for free and to help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. Free Rice itself is a website that asks questions on subjects, such as humanities, English, math, chemistry, language learning, geography, human anatomy, and SAT prep. The way that the website works is the users choose a subject which is located at the top of the page, and then they are taken to a screen that has questions pertaining to the subject. The users will then be able to answer the questions, and then they click on what they believe the answer is, then they will be told whether or not they are right. When the users get a question right, they are then told that their answer is correct, and they have donated ten grains of rice. The exchange rate is ten grains of rice per one question. As the users answer more questions correctly, the difficulty of the questions goes up in what Free Rice refers to as levels. The users can also manually change the level of the questions if they wish to do so. Answering the questions correctly is what helps them maintain their second goal, which is to provide hunger relief. The rice is paid for by sponsors, and then it is donated to the people through the United Nations World Food Programme (Free Rice). Feeding America is a leader in hunger relief due to their summer feeding programs, after school feeding programs, and their education programs. As the name would suggest, this organization feeds residents located in the United States of America. Feeding America is also considered America’s leading domestic hunger-relief, with it feeding more than thirty seven million people each year. Feeding America’s goal is to feed America’s hungry people through food banks and to involve the United States to help fight against hunger. Feeding America provides healthy, fresh food to the hungry Americans, safe places for the hungry children to have a meal, emergency relief for people who are in disastrous situations, and they also work with adults who experience poverty and starvation to break the cycle that they are having. Another interesting thing that Feeding America has done is launch the Kids Café Program. This is a program that was started by Feeding America in 1992, and it provides free meals and snacks to low-income children through a variety of community areas where children normally go afterschool. Places such as the Boys and Girls Club, churches, or public schools, and the Kids Café also offer the children a safe place to go to after school where they can be involved in recreational, educational, and social activities. The Kids Café programs also offer education based on nutrition throughout the year to educate people who are not knowledge on this subject. Another program that they offer is the BackPack Program, which is a program that distributes backpacks to children at the end of the school week so that they can have food to eat over the weekend. They distribute almost 230,000 backpacks to children every year. Another program that they support is the Summer Food Program. This summer helps feed children over the summer while they are not in school due to the lack of funds that the parents have. The Summer Food program feeds over 130,000 children through the food banks each year. Another program that they have is the School Pantry Program which sets up food pantries in school to give low-income students and their families’ food to eat. This program has fed roughly 70,000 children since its inception (Feeding America). MercyCorps is also a leading hunger relief organization due to them offering many opportunities to people in need such as disaster awareness, promotion of youth, and education.
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
providing financing, equipment, training, or technical support to the people that are in need. This way the people can find jobs, or open businesses to promote commerce within these countries to raise the standard of living for these countries. Another thing that MercyCorps does is they also provide education to occupants of countries so that they can prosper, and help the people in the country have a better future due to the knowledge that is gained (A Girl Can).
Many people believe that these organizations are flawless, but this is not true. UNICEF is seen to be this benevolent organization that helps out everyone, and it seems to do no wrong, but even this organization has skeletons in its closet. MacAuslan states that “This approach argues further that the critical period for individuals’ lifelong nutritional security is from conception to 5 years, and therefore the ‘the most critically vulnerable groups are developing fetuses, children up to the age of three and women before and during pregnancy and while they are breastfeeding’” (qdn MacAuslan 405). This is a very interesting topic because most people would not know this, and this could upset some people who are donating to this cause unaware of this information. They could think that their money is going to all of the children, or that the money is being spread thoroughly, but majority of the money is not. The younger children cannot fend for themselves if they are in horrid circumstances, but neither can children over the age of five. The chances of these children finding food themselves are very slim, and this is unfair to them because they are not given the same opportunities as the other children just because they are a certain age, but the organization is supposed to feed them just as well as the smaller children. The issue with LeSEA is the fact that the food that gets passed out or donated goes through churches, which is controversial itself because not everyone believes in the same religion, and some churches are extreme with their beliefs. This could make it harder for some churches are extreme with their beliefs. This could make it harder for some people who need to get it due to religious issues, which is not fair on their part because they have different viewpoints and morals.
Even though these organizations have their issues, the good that is being done heavily outweighs the bad. UNICEF feeds children amongst many other things over 190 different countries all over the world, and even though they focus on certain children, many of the children are fed, and they have programs which focus on older children that have AIDS so they get to eat. UNICEF also has many fundraisers to help promote these programs such as the Trick-or-Treat system, and people walk around raising money for the children. LeSEA also does many good things, such as giving education and also feeding people all over the world. Religion is controversial, but eating food is more important if one is starving, so the person eating the food does not have to let the religious information impact them, they can just listen to what the people to get the food, and then go on their way after they are finished eating. UNICEF, LeSEA Feed The Hungry, Free Rice, Feeding America, and MercyCorps are the top organizations because they provide excellent hunger relief opportunities to people in need. They also provide assistance in other areas of life including economic assistance, emergency relief, and educational benefits. A solution to the hunger problem would start domestically in America so that the people in our country can be fed and then they could use their energy to help the world eventually be fed. The idea that would be ideal is similar to the Minnesota Hunger Impact Exchange. “The goal of the Minnesota Hunger Impact Exchange event was to foster innovation to fight persistent hunger that is costing the state more than $1.2 billion per year”(PR, Newswire). This organization starts state wide and it is funded by many organizations such as General Mills. This organization is working on feeding people in the state itself, which is how the country of the United States should do it. If every state in the country started a feeding organization, then the programs could actually pinpoint areas and it would be more effective. Then large corporations could donate to these programs and everyone is going to be fed. Then after everyone is fed and people could start America branching out and feeding other countries, which would be helpful and then the world would healthy, and could focus on the prosperity of modern day civilization.
Annotated Bibliography
"About.Freerice.com." Not Your Average Online Trivia Game. United Nations World Food Programme. Web. 8 Oct. 2013. This website was an informational website which gave information on what Freerice does and how the website accomplishes its endeavors. The website seemed to be non-biased, because it just gave facts on what the organization does. The website also seems credible due to the fact that the organization that backs up this program is the United Nations World Food Programme which is an actual organization that fights hunger. This website will be useful when information is going to be needed to be given on this topic in the essay.
"A Girl Can." Mercy Corps. Mercy Corps, n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2013. This website gave information on what Mercy Corps does and also where Mercy Corps does its work. This website was purely information and there were not any biases present. This website seems like it is credible due to the website being created by the organization itself, and the website also has contact information. Another fact that made me think the organization was credible was due to the fact that it gives tax exemptions. I believe that this website will be credible in the future because I could pull information from this website to aid in my claims to support my thesis.
"Feeding America: Hunger-Relief." Feedingamerica.org. Feeding America. Web. 9 Oct. 2013. This was also another informational website that was also non-biased because it strictly gave information about what the organization has done and is doing right now. The website also gives relevant information on what is going on that could affect the organization including things from the white house that affects this information. The website seems credible due to it being created by the organization and also because it gives tax exemptions which like the organization above, seems to be noticed by the government which gives it extra credibility. This website seems like it would be useful in my essay because it gives a lot of information on the organization for me to use to back up my claims.
"Lesea Global Feed The Hungry." Feed The Hungry. LeSEA Global Feed The Hungry, Inc,. Web. 13 Oct. 2013. This website was also another informational site that gave information on this organization. The website was informational and there was not much bias with the information. The only bias present was the fact that the organization promotes religion. This is not a bad thing but not everyone agrees with this, and religion is a personal concept so this is bias. This website seemed credible because the site was created by the organization itself, and the organization also gives a tax exemption, which shows that this organization is also credible by the government also.
PR, Newswire. "Hunger-Free Minnesota Awards Innovation Grants to Fight Hunger at Minnesota Hunger Impact Exchange." PR Newswire US 11 Apr. 2013: Regional Business News. Web. 30 Oct. 2013. This article was located in a Business News article and it was talking about how successful Minnesota is with fighting hunger. It went into debt about how the program works and how many people are donating to the program. The program is very successful and it helps out a lot of people. It is also fed so many people in the country, and they are expelling a lot of hunger out of their state. This is also a non-biased informational source because majority of the information is factual, and there were no biases throughout the paper, it just told what the organization has done.
MacAuslan, Ian. "Hunger, Discourse And The Policy Process: How Do Conceptualizations Of The Problem Of 'Hunger ' Affect Its Measurement And Solution?." European Journal Of Development Research 21.3 (2009): 397-418. Web. 11 Oct. 2013.
This was an article that was located in a scholarly journal, but was also published online. This article gave more information on UNICEF and what the organization believes important that would not be found on the website. The article stated that UNICEF believes that the most important people to feed are pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and children from ages 3 to 5, and then the rest may still be taken care of, but are not as important as the previously stated people. The article seemed to credible due to it using lot of quotes and diagrams to back itself up, and also because it was published in a Scholarly Journal. This article seems like it would be useful to me when I have to form my counterclaims because it gave information on UNICEF that I could use against the organization further in the progress of my essay.
UNICEF - What We Do. United Nations Children’s Fund. Web. 7 Oct. 2013 This source was a webpage that gave information on what UNICEF does and it answered any questions that I had about UNICEF. It was purely information without any biases, and it was also a primary source because the information came from the people in the organization. The source is credible because the website is published by the organization, and it has contact information also which helps the credibility of the website. This website is a good source and will be used in my essay due to the information that it provides regarding my topic.