Blog #2 Families Facing Severe Malnutrition.

This article is talking of the horrible malnutrition that is happening in South Africa now. The article tells that the agencies are trying to get help for the people, and the wealthy to donate their money. Their biggest concern is to get ahead of the ball, and try to keep it from becoming a famine. South Africa is having problems feeding their people, therefore the price of the food has went up, and that has excluded many of the people from being able to buy food, and eat. They are having an agriculture problem because their fields are overgrazed, and by being overgrazed the animals aren't surviving, and the land won't do any more good until it has recovered. They need funding now to prevent a famine like the one that occurred in Somalia. When alerted about the famine in Somalia there were no donors, and in return many people died. UNICEF has reported the malnutrition rates to be around 1 million people. The peak of the crisis is suspected to hit in March, so they need help, and they need it fast. The families are being affected even without the droughts because around 300,000 children are hit with malnutrition each year.
This is a major problem, because even though they are a large population of the world, they don't need to suffer famine and die out. It is a social problem because of the number of people it affects, and I feel that if it were here, and they had the money we as a Nation would want them to help us out, and give us the money and food that we needed. We also need to look at the fact that there is something we can do to prevent the famine, and also lessen the malnutrition rate there, we should do what we can to help others out. Since there is a way to fix it, and many people going against it, it is a Social problem, and since it can be fixed we should be doing what we can to fix it. We also need to see that even without the droughts that the experienced, a lot of the kids are still malnutrition-ed, so we should try and fix that as well. Don't just put a temporary fix on something, put a complete fix on it.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/01/a-million-face-severe-hunger-in-the-sahel-unless-help-arrives.html