TRANSCRIPTION:
Paula:
We are Paula and Natalia and our presentation talks about hunger in the world. We have chosen this theme because we think that is really shocking that there are 16.000 (sixteen thousand) children in the world who die everyday because of hunger. This means one child dies every five seconds.
Our principal objectives were find the causes about it and learn more about hunger, because we think that it’s a really big problem actually and it’s been it for a long time ago.
Mundial hunger is one of the biggest problems of our world today.The cause of the hunger is that, the people who suffer it, don’t have enough food to eat, and to feed their children and family. They have less than 1.9 kcal. Because of that, a lot of people die everyday, and we waste a lot of food.
954.000.000 (nine hundred fifty four milion) people in the world are underfed. 820.000.000 (eight hundred twenty milion) of these people are in developing countries.
As you can see in this graphic, the most part of poverty is in Asia and the Pacific. Then, there are Sub-Saharian Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Near Est and North Africa, and finally there are poverty too in the developed countries.
There are many causes for hunger. One of them are the naturals causes.
People who lives in areas very cold or very hot, have more problems to obtain food, because there's no good land to plant vegetables.
Moreover, the problem is that the land is not being used efficiently enough.
Economical causes: Most of food is produced in developed nations, like the United States. For it to get to countries that need it, there are huge expenses in packaging, transporting, and distributing this food.
Sociocultural causes:
Many times, there are underlying cultural beliefs which prevent progress, as religion.
For example, in South Asia, society holds women responsible for all the key actions required to end hunger. But at the same time, trough laws, custom and tradition, women are denied the resources and the freedom of action to carry on these responsibilities. So it's not that women are incapable of making progress, it's simply that they are restricted by their own culture.
Natalia:
One question is.. there's food for all the people? and the answer is, yes there's.Yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They haven't got much money to buy enough food to eat. It causes that they become ill, and this makes that them can't work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier.
Hunger causes some diseases:
AIDS (Sida): AIDS kills a little less than 2 million people a year, or about one person every 17 seconds.
The worst number of dead is in Africa.
Pneumonia: it kills more than 2 million children each year in poor countries.
Pneumonia is contagious and is commonly transmitted when an infected person coughs.
Diarrheal and cholera kill about 1.6 million people each year, almost all of them children. Diarrhea is most often a result of unclean water, unsafe sanitation, or poor hygiene.
Tuberculosis: is highly contagious and spreads through the air from coughing. If not treated, a person with tuberculosis infects of 10 to 15 people each year.
Malaria: over a million people die from malaria each year. It's spread by mosquitoes.
Close to 90% of malaria causes occur in Africa.
In the PAST: Major hunger problems have occurred through history, leaving millions of people dead or suffering from the effects of hunger.
In the FUTURE: The problem of world hunger can be solved. But we have to act, because it will be increased if we continue so, and it will cause serious consequences on children, society and the future of humanity.
There's some measures to solve hunger:
- For adults, there are “food for work” programs where the adults are paid with food to build schools, make roads... This both nourishes them and builds infrastructure to end the poverty. For children, there are “food for education” programs where the children are provided with food when they attend school.
- Also, we can reduce or eliminate the transportation costs. If food is produced closer to where it is needed, costs are much lower.
- Companies need to realize that in order to make more money in these less developed regions, they must invert more as well.
Well, that's our oral presentation... there's any question?
OPINION ABOUT OUR ORAL PRESENTATION:
I think that it wasn't so bad. I was a little nervous, as always.. but in my opinion it was good!
