Hunger In Africa

Mother Teresa once said, “In a matter of days, you’ll see serious sickness, malnutrition and even starvation.” These are all awful things that have infected our world and the people that live here. Malnutrition affects the lives of families in Africa by having a lack of food and poor water filtering. Two reasons leading to malnutrition in Africa are lack of food and poor water filtering. There are four causes of hunger in Africa written in “What Causes Hunger in Africa”. They are lack of infrastructure, poverty, gender inequality, and AIDS. According to the author of “What Causes Hunger in Africa,” Elise RIley says “...the continent is also home to much of the world’s hunger, spread across several of the world’s poorest countries. Approximately 30 million people in Africa face the effects of

Poverty is a cause due to the absence of financial and social resources needed to have and receive food. Gender inequality causes food hunger, because women either have advantage by helping organize where the food would go, or have a disadvantage due to working in the fields and not being able to control where that food went. The popularity of AIDS also contributed to the lack of food by causing people to become too sick they cannot work to receive money to by food or work in the fields to have food. These added together are understandable reasoning behind the hunger in Africa. How would you expect to have food if you had to endure these circumstances? Another reason there is malnutrition in Africa is due to the poor water filtering. It is written on the Huffington Post website that, “A major obstacle is the fact that African countries are allocating only a