Hunger in the World

Usually, when you think about a starving country, you think about a country 

in Africa. But there are also hunger problems in the Western Hemisphere. Haiti is the poorest country in the west, with 50% of the urban country unemployed. With a Global Hunger Index of 23, 2.5 thousand children are extremely malnourished. To survive, there are people eating mud mixed with vegetable shortening. The edible clay that these cookies are made of is skyrocketing in price, making the sludge that is some people's only source of food Haiti's most valuable resource. Hunger and poverty in Haiti stems from colonialism by Christopher Columbus. Many of the natives were wiped out, and the slaves revolted. Haiti has endured colonial enslavement, political corruption, despots, lack of US aid, and natural disasters.