Where I am living now in 2007 a tornado hit this small town. It sort of happened out of nowhere and it was pretty catastrophic damaging our hospital and put a lot of people in danger that night. I was actually going to school at the time and living on campus. I remember this time like it was yesterday because I was playing baseball for the school and we was suppose to have a game that next day. I have never experienced such silence before and that next day was so sad for a lot of people in this town. Everyone was walking around looking at the damages this tornado caused. I always seen it or heard about it on television, never was I expecting such pain from an innocent town. It took a while for this to build up and we have just recently gotten the hospital back in full force last year I believe.
Two out of every three people face hunger as Haiti woes increase (Sweet, 2013). Research shows that in 1997, 1.2 million Haitians didn't have enough food to eat (Sweet, 2013). A decade later the number had more than doubled. Today, that figure is 6.7 million, or a staggering 67 percent of the population that goes without food some days, can't afford a balanced diet or has limited access to food, according to surveys by the governments' National Coordination of Food Security (Sweet, 2013). As many as 1.5 million of those face malnutrition and other hunger-related problems. The hardship of hunger abounds amid the stone homes and teepee-like huts in the mountains along Haiti's southern coast. The hair on very skinny children has turned patchy and sort of orange, their stomachs have ballooned to the size of their heads and many look half their age which is a true sign of malnutrition (Sweet, 2013).
Reference
Sweet, D. (2013, June 10). Hunger in Haiti Worse Than Ever. Retrieved from
I was sadden by the statistics of children who are hungry in Haiti. This is something that must be addressed on a world wide level as these people and their children are truly suffering. The affects of malnutrition are life long. If a child does not have food they are unable to develop cognitively therefore only compounding the problem for years to come.
ReplyDeleteHello Carlos
ReplyDeleteNatural disasters can be devastating to everyone involved, especially if you end of losing everything that you have. I have read many stories about how Haiti suffers from hunger. I think this is primarily because of their growing population. I think that the children are the ones who suffer the most because it causes problems with their developmental process. It is very hard for children to concentrate when they are hungry on a daily basis.
Hi Carlos,
ReplyDeleteI could not even think about not having enough to eat, and thought of me not being able to provide for my child frightens me. I pray for the people that face these hardships everyday, without hope of a change in sight.