Religion questions

World Hunger – UN
Read the United Nations Report into World Hunger and answer the following questions. The answers are to be posted onto your Blogsite.
1. How many people in the world are estimated by the United Nations World Food Programme to be chronically hungry?
830 million people
2. Why is this important?
Cause then we can do something to fix this issue in the world.
3. What kind of report did the agency release?
Where she distributed a map calling attention to "hot spots" where hunger is most severe. The map identifies large swathes of territory in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia where tens of millions of people, most of them women and children, cannot get enough to eat.
4. Why does Ms. Catherine Bertini claim people have trouble getting out of poverty and hunger?
Because there is natural disasters that get in the way.
5. What is the World Food Programme’s definition of hunger?
As a condition in which people fail to get enough food to provide the nutrients for active, healthy lives.

6. What events have added to the problem of world hunger in the past few years?
Natural disasters.
7. What disasters have hurt the poorest countries?
Floods, Droughts, Fire, Earth Quakes etc
8. Where are the largest numbers of poor and hungry people living?
Afghanistan
9. Where have conditions improved over the past few years? Where have they worsened?
Have improved in some countries like Bosnia, Namibia and Botswana they have deteriorated in others, like Afghanistan.

10. How many poor people did the World Food Programme feed in the year 2000?
16 million
11. What does Ms. Bertini say countries need in order to alleviate hunger?
Need not only food but also water drilling and purification equipment and better sanitation and agricultural systems.

Further Questions for Discussion:
1. What is hunger?

2. What do you think it would be like to live with chronic hunger?
3. Why do people care about hunger in parts of the world that are far from them?
4. Whose responsibility is the care of the chronically undernourished?
5. How does chronic hunger affect a child?

Social Justice Assignment

Article One:

Title: Homeless men lose fight to sleep rough at Bondi Pavilion
Author:Bellinda Kontominas
URL: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/homeless-men-lose-fight-to-sleep-rough-at-bondi-pavilion-20100308-prow.html

Article Two:

Title: Korea and US launch war games
Author:AFP
URL: http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/south-korea-and-us-launch-war-games-20100308-ps18.html

Article three:

Title: End Cycle of Poverty
Author:Peter Bodkin
URL: http://digitaledition.manlydaily.com.au/