How did Food Stamps Begin?

Hunger and malnutrition are a serious matter in America and also in a various amount of other countries. The majority of people facing this problem are usually considered the “minority groAmericanup” (mainly African American and Hispanic), that have to deal with poverty within their “Ghetto” community. Being raised in a community of poverty can cause an effect on many children's lives because of the poor foods they consume; which can create a large number of disadvantages because they lack resources. The government provides food stamps for the poor in America, mainly for people who cannot sustain the average wage.

On the other side of the spectrum, there is malnutrition in other countries. For example, Eritrea faces a drought, and the People have been forced to draw water from pits dug into the Mereb river, meanwhile, in Mexico, the people face anemia, overweight, and obesity. These foreign countries face poverty in ways that we can't imagine. To help these communities progress positively, people donate money, clothes, and hygiene utensils to support the people in need. It's important to consider that America and the foreign countries both face poverty, some similar, but it usually tends to be more severe in a foreign country, because the fewer resources a community has means the more disadvantages they get. So what are The differences between how the US and Eritrea handle hunger?

Most of America's immigrants were the ones who usually suffered through poverty. Although the u.s. the government provides food stamps, which help provide for the people suffering from their malnutrition, it’s simply still not enough to support a family. The communities in the u.s. Are so poor to the point where they can't afford to have a grocery store with fresh produce; instead, they have food desserts. According to Jennifer Wehunt “food desert” means “a concentrated area short on access to fresh meat and produce, but flush with the packaged and fried yield of convenience stores and fast-food outlets”(Wehunt 216). This is a provided fact of a cause of malnutrition and still, the gov. Decides to ignore most of the signs of needed support; The gov. only sends a small number of funds monthly only for food to the ones in hunger.

Meanwhile, Eritrea faces one of the highest poverty rates in the world. Sixty-Nine percent of the Eritrean descent live in poverty and they were the ninth poorest country in the world in the year 2017. In the writing, “The Disappearance of Hunger in America”, Patricia Allen says that “hunger is a result of poverty” (Allen 225). Most people in Eritrea growing up had no say in where they wanted to be raised; because of the war they had against Ethiopia, a lot of Eritreans (including my mom) had to evacuate their homes and make their a way to Sudan. Once they arrived in Sudan they had to restart their lives with no money to maintain. When Elise L. Riley (the author of “Hunger in Eritrea”) says, “the Eritrean government has focused on improving agricultural infrastructure to decrease food insecurity, and through hunger has declined during that period” (Riley). This shows that it’s difficult for the government to implement lasting changes to prevent hunger in Eritrea.

Although America is a lot different from Eritrea, they still have common similarities due to poverty. Both poor and many homeless people are wandering the streets, but the difference between the two’s hunger is that America's poverty actually has food most of the time but mainly contains junk food or fried goods, on the other hand, Eritrea's poverty level is so ridiculous that most people can't eat, and if they did eat they had to hunt for it. When Wehunt quotes A. Edward Davis Jr saying “What we need, we have to support”(Wehunt). If our communities can all have the same mindset as Davis, then maybe we can help others in need to make the world a better place, that’s why this issue is greatly important.

In conclusion, the u.s. and Eritrea each handle their hunger in similar ways, but Eritrea faces far more struggle than America does. The u.s. supports the people living in poverty by sending food stamps monthly, but still isn’t enough to sustain a family; on the other side, the Eritrean gov. doesn’t have the same energy of support, just because they have no funds to help. Therefore, the American gov. needs to donate more funds to foreign countries and send more money monthly to the people who can’t afford to live in the united states. If the people can come together and make this happen the future of the world will become brighter, if we cannot defeat or simply attempt to lower the poverty rates, it will only get higher and cause a world catastrophe later on in the future. Overall maintaining a community of poverty is extremely difficult and the people at donation centers and the national government should take more matters into their hands and step up. 

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