“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” –Mahatma Gandhi".
Hunger hurts and takes away hope. When hunger pervades a country’s landscape it not only threatens the future of its inhabitants, it hampers their prosperity. In identifying man’s hierarchy of needs, renowned psychologist, Abraham Maslow, put food, water, warmth and rest, as the first basic needs that determine man’s daily actions.
In Nigeria, Africa, millions of people including children are at risk of starving to death. With unemployment put at a staggering 14.2 percent of the population (29 million people), many wake not knowing what to eat and go to bed obviously of where their next meal would come from.
According to United Nations’ World Food Programme, the world faces an unprecedented catastrophe because 20 million people in Nigeria, South Sudan, Yemen and Somalia live on the brink of famine, about 5.2 million people are estimated to be facing hunger in Northeast Nigeria alone due to the protracted insecurity in the region occasioned by Boko Haram insurgency.
Have you wondered why Bill Gate wrote an article, “Why Does Hunger Still Exist in Africa?” In his article, he established that in sub-Saharan African, the number of stunted children was still on the rise, about 12 million since 1990 to 56 million in 2014. The terrible impact of malnutrition in Africa is alarming, the children are not getting enough food to eat, leaving them years behind in their development.
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