Montserrat Azmani
Whitnall High School
Sudan
Combating World Hunger
We, the people of Sudan, have strong feelings for combating world
hunger. We do not have the power, money, or food to end this epidemic, but
we do have the need for this issue to be solved. Since gaining independence
from Egypt and the United Kingdom in January of 1956, we have only
remained a peaceful country for eleven years. Much of our fighting has
come from the power struggle between the north and south. This ultimately
has weakened our economy, and sent us into a never ending cycle of
poverty.
The humanitarian branch of the United Nations works to bring life
saving relief to those in need of assistance. They have done an extreme
amount of work in southern Sudan, so much that they are slowly decreasing
the amount of poverty. They have created a newly renovated part of our
country, where there is now place for recovery and new developments.
Most of our country was devastated in July of 2007, when we were
overcome with extreme flooding. The humanitarian branch provided
immediate response, helping to clean up flooding, and repair damages
caused by the high waters.
As you can see, we are at a very low economic state. Agriculture
remains our most important means of survival. Over 80% of our population
is employed in this field, and it makes up 39% of GDP. The only downfall
to this is the fact that we have been hit with two extremes in the weather.
Before the floods of 2007 we had many seasons of drought, this hurt our
economy in a devastating way. Then in 2007, all of the crops were
diminished and washed away due to the floods. This has left our people
without jobs, and hungry.
Without having the power, money, or natural resources to provide our
people with antiquate nutrition, we feel that combating world hunger would
help us to get out of poverty. This issue affects not only us, but a great
portion of the world’s population. We, the people of Sudan, support any
efforts from other country’s on this issue.