Project on World Hunger/Red Cross

Red Cross

History:

Some of the history of the Canadian red cross was during Louis Riel's North West Rebellion. A man named Dr. George Sterling Ryerson needed to find a way to distinguish the horse drawn wagons being used to move the wounded people from the war and ordinary people heading of to war. So he found two red strips and made a red cross on the front of a white sheet so that people would know that that wagon carried the wounded.

   Who started it and why:

The worldwide founder of the Red Cross was Henry Dunant. He started it because he couldn’t bear to see so many people suffering in the world. But the tipping point was when he witnessed suffering on an Italian battlefield in 1859. So then he started an organization soon to be known as the Red Cross to help people suffering in places like Haiti and Pakistan.

What places they help at the moment:

• Haiti (Earthquake)
• Pakistan (Floods)
• Gaspésie (Rain Flood)  
• New Brunswick (Floods)

                             What do they donate:

Money

 How many people in the world are Starving:
The number of people starving in the world exceeds 1 billion.
How many people in Canada are starving:
Several hundred thousand people across the country do not have enough food to eat on a regular basis.
How many children each day die from starvation:
About 16 000 children die each day of starvation.
Facts about Haiti
What factors effect hunger in this area:
The earthquake caused anarchy which caused people to start blocking streets and burning anything in there way causing hunger for everyone.
How much does it cost to feed someone in Haiti:
About $20.00
How can extreme hunger affect children:
There so hungry that they will eat ANY FOOD they find which makes them sick
       Paragraph about food waste in north America and how we compare to other parts of the world:
            Food waste in north America is one of our biggest enemies because we have tons and tons of fast-food and most of the time we end up throwing 30%-at least-of it out. Compare this to places that have extreme hunger the amount that we throw out in a day would be enough for them to have breakfast, lunch and dinner. So we are a pretty wasteful continent compared to places like Haiti.
They  can’t go to school because they have to spend their days looking for food and water.