Feeding America

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The most common method that has been applied to reduce child hunger is through food donation. There are in fact many charity and organizations are providing channels for people to donate food and money to children who suffered from severe hunger and insufficient nutrition. For instance, the global organization, Food Bank, collects excessive food and grocery products from various sources, and distributes it to impoverished families and individuals (Schneider, 756). The main purpose of this plan is to reduce the wastage of food by donating it to people in need. By doing so, both parties are benefitted from each other. The accumulation of all these food can in fact make a huge impact on easing child hunger, especially to the underdeveloped countries. Feeding America, another large domestic organization, which networks more than 200 food banks to coordinates the distribution of edible food and grocery products. With the help of 61,000 agencies, three billion pounds of food were …show more content…

Government should spend higher portion of national budget on child programs. Barbara R. Bergman stresses in her book Children From Poverty that children should always be the prioritized concern in a nation. It is the government’s responsibility to ensure all children in the nation are growing up healthily. She provides a successful example of how government intervention has reduced a large scale of child hungers in France. Its government had spent $96.4 billion US Dollars on the programs for children’s wellbeing (50). On top of that, government and companies also provide basic essentials to the working mother, who received minimum wages (124). The amount of budget that French government spent on child hunger has reflected on its determination and seriousness on improving the issue. With abundant sources and financial aids from government, the amount of children in huger within France has significantly gone

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