An Inside look on Child Hunger

How would you feel if food was a struggle to have everyday?  Could you survive on one piece of bread everyday if that is all your parents could afford? Many kids across the world suffer from malnutrition and over millions of kids die every year. 

Child Hunger is always something that I have thought about because I believe its a huge problem that many are unaware about.  I first became interested in it during freshman year when we had to make a change in the world for our U.S. History class.  When I researched child hunger I knew that was the topic I wanted to make a change in so I bought a goat through the heifer project and gave it to a family. 

All the information I have learned has come from the internet.  When we were choosing our inquiry project I learned that well over 500 million people are living in poverty and that about 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age.  Hunger is the single gravest threat to the world's public health.  I also found out that children starve more than adults which made me choose the specific topic child hunger because I thought that it was interesting that more children starved because I would think parents would provide more food for their children instead of themselves.  The cause of starvation is an imbalance of energy intake and energy output. 

Questions that I hope to answer by January are:
Are there more kids per family that make it hard for each one to survive because they have to split up the food?
In what countries is child hunger most common?
Can diseases cause malnutrition?
What else to children in poverty struggle from that could cause starvation?

I chose this book because it takes place on Mt. Kilimanjaro where child hunger is a mundane problem and is occurring everyday.  By having the book be placed in one setting it can focus on the children and you can receive an inside look at the struggles they face on a regular basis.

The easiest part of this project will be researching and gaining all the information I can because I will be very interested and I want to know more about this project.

The hardest part of this project will be taking the information and writing about it because I will have a plethora of information that it will be hard to organize it and not leave any details out.  Another hard part will be making it interesting to others because they may not find what I write about as interesting so I need to keep it engaging.

This project will have its hard and easy times but I am sure I can handle it and do a good job while also giving insight to others that don't have any knowledge on the topic.