Africans Against Hunger and Diseases AAHDs

 Increasing Food Security and Productivity in Guinea-Bissau in Cooperation with West Africa Countries Sunday Ishaya Alta High School No one knows exactly how many of the world’s people are undernourished today because there is a lack of reliable population counts from many countries. But, even in the absence of appropriate data collection and analysis, there is general agreement that the number of people who are severely affected by hunger and malnutrition is extremely large. According to a World Food Program estimate, hunger affects one out of seven people on the planet. The World Bank estimated that more than one billion of the world’s people do not have enough food to lead healthy and productive lives. Most of them—800 million—live in developing countries in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. For most hungry people, food shortages are a fact of everyday life. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 840 million of the world’s 1.1 billion poor live in ru...

Poor sanitation and it's attendant consequences tends to create and sustain an aura of various forms of communicable disease in Africa. In Sub-Saharan Africa, slum infrastructure has remained inadequate as it is not government policy to support development in what are considered illegal informal settlements. Residents tamper with electricity and water connections, often resulting in clashes as security personnel are deployed to stop the connections. According to experts, slum conditions may make the settlements a breeding ground for tomorrow's pathogens.  Health problems such as malnutrition, diarrhoea, cholera and typhoid fever are already common, especially when water is mixed with industrial and sewage effluent. "General cleanliness in the slums is not good at all. Even as we try our best to keep our individual compounds clean, some people litter our compounds with flying toilets," a Ketu residence of Lagos, Mrs Chinyere said.  Progress towards halving the...

CHARITY is a thing of the heart,its a culture that is imbibed from the beginning of your own nature, i may say, from birth. although the art of charity can be learnt and logically practised, it takes an unwavering heart love to sustain it,and a passion to propel it. Here in AAHDS, there are no shortage of these attributes From the beginning of creation, the highest Godhead, to whom we all call upon, made it somewhat mandatory, that help be offered the poor and needy wherever they may be found.  The holy Qur'an expanciated on this  in a very detailed logic.That hidden mandate to help the weak and less privileged remains an unshakable burden on the conscience of HUMANITY, a more concerted effort should and must urgently be redirected towards achieving a more prudent approach to tackling hunger and disease in the world and especially sub Saharan Africa. Buddhism teaches that all human beings should display compassion to each other as part of a global community. This invo...

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