Thoughts behind under nourished children

 Peter Kimeu a small-scale farmer in machos, Kenya and writer for the New York Times wrote an article on his personal experience growing up in a hungry childhood. The droughts were so bad in Kenya that even if someone had a lot of money they did not have any food to purchase.  No food was being grown and so the children weren't being fed.
Kimeu, Peter. "Remembering a Hungry Childhood." New York Times [New York City] 10 Sept. 2011: n. pag. Print.
" I can't count the number of days when "I slept like that" or describe the feeling of going to sleep hungry knowing I'd wake up and there would still be no food for breakfast.  The author helped the readers answer their questions on why child hunger is happening.  Most people think that it is from the lack of money and poverty but Kimeu has a different story.  The droughts are "cyclical" in Kenya. "I would walk the roads and search the ground to see if someone had spat out a bit of chewed-up sugar cane." The children would jostle each other for the last scrap. Many parents of starving children lose their jobs and can't afford food and it affects the whole community. This article was about how many people think that children are starving from being neglected or parent are financially hurting but this gives another point of view of how children are starving from a drought. 
The Rev. Sarai Schnucker Rice and Kristine Frakes who are both writers for the DesMoines paper shard their opinions and beliefs on how there are lasting effects on childhood hunger.  The article describes how if kids don't receive the proper nutrition of food at a young age it can affect the neurological architecture of your brain and central nervous system and it will be fundamentally and negatively altered.
Schnucker Rice, Sarai, and Kristine Frakes. "Iowa View: There Are Lasting Effects from Childhood Hunger." DesMoinesRegister.com. N.p., 27 Oct. 2012. Web. <http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20121028/OPINION01/310280038/Iowa-View-There-lasting-effects-from-childhood-hunger>.

These two authors talk about how being undernourished can affect the community in the future.  "As you mature into adulthood, you will not be well-prepared mentally, emotionally, physically or socially to perform in contemporary work environments".  They also share their thoughts about how the government's assistance is not enough, and for the low-income families there just simply isn't enough food.  Eventually there is not enough to stay in school long enough to learn their rudimentary skills and become productive adults.  
The message they are trying to get through is that the world has to do something different and create a new solution so that they can ensure a more promising foundation for the children and future of the community.
So what?
These two articles explain the suffering that the lack of food causes.  Since the first article broke down to a certain cause of starvation it can impact the world and how they want to make a difference because of the knowledge they received.  The second article shows the over all result of child malnourishment and since it is more relatable, it impacts the readers more to make a difference for the better of their community.