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This video shows us how many people live in poverty. This is scary but true. Lots of people around the world still can't go e.g. to school, because of money! Everybody deserves to go to school and learn, because that's really important for our lives. People shown in this video shares their experience with poverty and how they are living. I think they are strong and amazing people to still have hope and fight with poverty as much as they can.

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What is Poverty? | Exploring Extreme Poverty with Compassion

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Plastic is something that we use everyday but we don't even know what is happening after we throw away e.g. a plastic bottle. Plastic is very dangerous for our environment. Oceans, forests are really polluted because of our fault. We shouldn't make other animals suffer, because of what we are doing.

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What really happens to the plastic you throw away - Emma Bryce

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This is a very interesting video. It's about how animals came to land. It shows us how many different species there are around the world. We probably don't even realize that with our actions we are making a lot of animals die.

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-life-came-to-land-tierney-thys Spiders and crustaceans, also known as arthropods, led the charge from water to land--now outnumbering all terrestrial animals. But what about arthropods makes them so adaptable to life on land? Marine biologist Tierney Thys, and Noé Sardet and Sharif Mirshak of the Plankton Chronicles Project, shows us a world of fascinating animals and their habitats.

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Here are some reallyI ways to stop world hunger. I think every of those steps is really helpful and possible to do but we only need to have the will to do it. Not every person cares about other peoples' suffering, because of hunger. You can't even imagine how it is to live without food but many people around the world are experiencing that and that's unacceptable!

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Food is central to human well-being: it provides the body with nourishment, offers livelihoods that lift people out of poverty, and brings communities together. Although food is a basic human need, too many people are trapped in a cycle of hunger by forces beyond their immediate control, like poverty, disaster, conflict and inequality.

Despite decades of progress in reducing world hunger, 2017 saw increases in the number of people who are hungry. More than 820 million people still go to bed hungry every night - that's one in every nine people who don't have the food they need to live a healthy, productive life.

The World Health Organization considers this to be the single greatest threat to global health. Hunger is cyclical and generational: it inhibits people's ability to work and learn to their fullest potential, which can curb their future and trap them and their families in more poverty - and more hunger.

Mercy Corps takes a multi-pronged approach to helping end world hunger, including implementing programs that tackle the multiple drivers of food security, while also engaging in policy discussions that influence our programs. Learn about this work and what is being done to stop world hunger below.

Global hunger today

Common causes of hunger

World hunger is caused by so much more than a shortage of food. Even in places where food is plentiful or can be grown, challenges like disasters, conflict or poverty prevent people from accessing it.

People in poverty generally spend between 60 and 80 percent of their income on food, which can force them to prioritize feeding their families over meeting other basic needs or reaching long-term goals, like sending their children to school. If an emergency strikes, they may need to skip meals in order to cope financially - and the cycle of hunger continues.

According to the Food Security Information Network, conflict and insecurity were primary drivers of food insecurity in 2017, alone accountable for putting 74 million people in need of urgent assistance. Climate change is also eroding existing efforts to improve food security.

Hunger can also stem from inadequate food systems, like a lack of road infrastructure to connect people to markets, or poor storage facilities, through which food gets wasted and never reaches those who need it.

Weather shocks, due in part to climate change, are also increasingly driving hunger. Half the world's poor grow their own food, and natural disasters like droughts and floods frequently wipe out vulnerable families' entire food supply and income.
Read more: A hotter planet, a hungrier world ▸
But even if all these obstacles to food access were removed, the world will still need to change its agriculture practices to meet the needs of its growing population.

Where in the world is hunger the worst?

Nearly all the world's hungry - 98 percent - live in developing regions. Over 500 million live in Asia and the Pacific, in countries like Afghanistan and Timor-Leste, while 243 million live in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Food Security Information Network reports the worst food crises in 2017 were in northeast Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen and South Sudan, where famine was declared in two counties.

In 2018, the network expects conflict and insecurity to remain a primary driver of hunger, especially in countries including Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, South Sudan, Syria, Libya and Yemen, which is right now the world's most dire food crisis.

Weather-related disasters, like drought, are also anticipated to be a major catalyst of hunger around the world in 2018 - but the impact will likely be greatest in West Africa and the Sahel, in places like Ethiopia, Niger, Mali, Kenya and Somalia.

What is being done to end world hunger?

Work humanitarian organizations are doing

We can only tackle world hunger effectively if we address what causes it in the first place. This means improving systems and behaviors that enable secure access, availability and use of food.

Fighting the drivers of hunger is key to Mercy Corps' work with vulnerable communities in more than 40 countries:
Read more about our approach to building food security ▸
During acute crises, we provide at-risk communities with lifesaving assistance and the tools to re-establish healthy bodies and prosperous livelihoods. We help people with food, livelihood tools, and cash donations when food supplies are low or unaffordable, such as when people are displaced by conflict or natural disasters.

We also work with governments, multilateral institutions and other key stakeholders to support funding programs and implementing policies that help stop global hunger and malnutrition and improve the lives of millions around the world.

Legislation and help from the government

After decades of underinvestment, countries like the U.S. have begun to reinvest in programs to fight global hunger. The effort has built momentum over the years, culminating in 2015 when the global community came together to commit to pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals, with ending hunger as a top priority.

Private companies, NGOs, universities and academic institutions joined national governments with new agriculture and nutrition investments in response. In the United States, these new partnerships led to the Feed the Future Initiative, an anti-hunger response that has achieved impressive results: 9 million people lifted out of poverty, 1.6 million households free from hunger, and 1.8 million children properly nourished.

The passage of the bipartisan Global Food Security Act made this effort into law in 2016 and led to a new Global Food Security Strategy that built on the successes of Feed the Future.

This year, 2018, two major policy opportunities in the United States exist to continue the fight against global hunger:

The Global Food Security Reauthorization Act: Mercy Corps worked closely with private sector partners, other NGOs, academic and research institutions, the faith community and Members of Congress to help pass H.R. 5129 and S. 2269. This bill ensures the Global Food Security Act's improvements to the Global Food Security Strategy and the Feed the Future Initiative will continue beyond 2018.

The Farm Bill: While this is largely a bill that focuses on domestic policy, one section of it reauthorizes the Food for Peace program that provides international food assistance. This bill provides an opportunity to continue to make this program more efficient and effective. Mercy Corps is working to ensure components that allow flexible interventions stay in place while advancing other reforms that will improve Food for Peace non-emergency programs. Those programs are vital to helping communities build resilience to shocks that make them vulnerable to hunger, like conflict and natural disasters.

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What we're doing to help end global hunger

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What can we do to stop world hunger? Mercy Corps takes a multi-pronged approach, including implementing programs that tackle the drivers of food security, while also engaging in policy discussions that influence our programs. Learn more about global hunger and our work to stop it once and for all.

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Martyna Wojciechowska is a famous polish traveler. In this episode she is visiting Kabula - a really beautiful and lovely girl. Martyna talks about the reality of people with albinism and that's terrifying. Everyone deserves to live a beautiful life no matter what skin color you have. Martyna shows so much love for all the kids around her and that shows how big her heart is.

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Martyna odwiedziła Kabulę - bohaterkę odcinka pt. "Ludzie duchy" [Kobieta na krańcu świata]

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This video shows us the reality that some people live in. Their reality is really scary for us, people that live in big cities. We don't really know what is "lack of electricity or clean water", because we have never experienced that. Some people need to live like that everyday and that's terrifying. Most importantly, it's dangerous for human's health.

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The Journey Episode 2: Life without Clean Water | charity: water

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This is a very interesting video. It shows us if pro-vaccine and anti-vaccine people have same opinions. I personally think vaccines are very important in our lives, because they definitely protect us from some serious illnesses. I think some people in this video said some really stupid things and I think we should work on making them realize that vaccines are not a negative thing.

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Pro-Vaccine vs Anti-Vaccine: Should Your Kids Get Vaccinated? | Middle Ground

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The statistics shown in this video are really scary. It makes us realize how unfair the whole world is, because some people still live in unacceptable conditions. We can't accept it and we need to help them e.g. with charities. Every penny is very important, even though it's not a lot for us it's a lot for them.

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This video should be seen by many people in the world. Some people don't really care about the quality of their works and that's wrong! EVERY human deserves to have a decent work - and what is decent work? It's when you have a job that you can have to e.g. support your family. This is important but not everyone sees a problem in this.

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Here are some simple steps to make yourself feel healthier and happier. We don't really pay attention to these steps but they can make your life better e.g. going to a doctor every few months is really important, because it can avoid you from having an illness that can cause some serious damages to your organism.

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9 Simple Steps to Good Health & Well Being

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I love how this man talks about how we can make the world a better place. He really motivates us to do something and help other people. He shows us facts what is really important to make us realize that these things are a real issue. I would recommend this video to EVERYONE, because this guy really knows how to talk.

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How We Can Make the World a Better Place by 2030 | Michael Green | TED Talks

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I think this problem is something that we should work on as soon as possible. War and murders still happen in our world and that's disgusting. We should really start looking at excluded groups of people, because we all need to be connected and work together as community. Without peace and justice, we won't be able to make this world a better place.

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SDG16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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This article shows us the solutions of this problem. The happy thing is that we are trying to solve this problem instead of just ignoring it. Unfortunately one in seven people still lacks electricity and lives in village areas. There are still people that don't live their lives as they should and that's really sad, because we can't really imagine living in a world without electricity.

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Climate change is something that not everyone is aware of. Some people deny these problems and they don't really care about what's happening around the world. This video shows us causes and effects of climate chaange so it can be actually useful for some people, because maybe it will change something in their thinking. We, as people, need to work together to fight with the danger of climate changes. Unfortunately, the world is going the wrong way...

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Causes and Effects of Climate Change | National Geographic

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This video shows how gender stereotypes work, for instance in our world boys should wear blue clothes and girls should wear pink clothes. For me this is definitely not fair. These are only colours and these days you can be judged just because you are wearing something that "doesn't match your gender". This is very toxic, because boys and girls should wear whatever they want, work wherever they want and be whoever they want. We should not follow stereotypes, because they can actually have a bad influence on us.

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This video really shows how people are a serious danger to other species. We don't care about other animals. We pollute and do nothing about it. We don't want to know what happens after you throw away your thrash, because we are all aware of the problem but we don't want to do anything about it.
Also, the video shows how to fight with the problem and I think it's really well made.

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https://borgenproject.org/10-ways-stop-world-hunger/

In this article there are 10 ways to stop world hunger. All of these solutions are very helpful for ending the poverty. My favourite way is number 5 which are donations. I think everyone should donate at least 5 zloty for some charity organisations, because for us this amount of money is nothing but if we gather all the money it will be a huge help for all countries where poverty is a big problem.

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On 23rd of October, Czech guests came to our school, because we were supposed to take care of them. I was sitting with Karolina and Konrad and then 3 girls - Anichka, Sara and Paja came to sit with us. At first, it was awkward, because we didn't really know what to talk about. But after few hours we were really comfortable around each other. All the girls are very nice and their laughs are sooo funny. We visited a few places in Rybnik e.g. '
17-tka' or 'Gateau' which is a candy shop. At the end of their trip, which is 25 of October, we went to a concert in our community centre in Chwałowice. It was really well done and the music was interesting. Then we said goodbye to each other and I hope that we could meet again some day.

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Me and Maja were supposed to talk to some people from Hungary, Budapest. Our teacher told us we needed to talk with 2 guys - Bence and Ábel. Unfortunately, we couldn't hear each other and only the cameras worked so we needed to write instead of talking.
Bence and Ábel were very kind and talkative. They told us about their school, hobbies etc. What's interesting is that Ábel has a similar taste in music or video games to mine. I think we really liked each other. Of course Maja wasn't writing so much, because even without cameras she is shy. We didn't have much time to talk more and we needed to end faster.
Even though we couldn't talk to each other, I still think writing with them was very nice.

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On the first day, we had to introduce ourselves on the "Polish-Japanese" padlet. We all wrote about our hobbies, families etc.
Also, we had to choose our topic so I chose "Life below water", because last time I talked about animals' lives on land so I thought it would be a great idea to talk about animals' lives under water.