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====My name is Mari Kuraishi and i am the co-founder and president of the organization called GlobalGiving. GlobalGiving is an organization whose goal is to do many amazing things for people all around the world. One of those many amazing things is to feed the hungry. In Africa, many people are suffering from starvation and malnutrition, especially in an area in eastern Africa called the Horn of Africa. Within this horn are the countries Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and the Sudan. I previously worked at the World Bank where I was an active contributor to the Bank’s projects including the first ever Innovation and Development Marketplaces. I have an undergraduate degree from Harvard University in history. With my many positive contributions I think many people would support me with my decisions and actions. ==== ====1. Richard Stearns from the organization World Vision would support me because he makes the same efforts in trying to come up with a better future for people. He received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in neurobiology. He started with the organization in 1988 and since then has visited 40 of the nearly 100 countries where World Vision works and he is also an active donor to the program. Although he is from a different organization, we both have the same goal. ==== ====2. Along with Richard would be Girma Wolde-Giorgis who is the president of Ethiopia since 2001. Ethiopia is just one of the many countries in the Horn. Girma has graduated from the Genet Military School in 1944. He worked in the air force and then decided to pursue a career in the political world. As president he knows of all the problems in his countries including starvation. Any efforts to help the people would be great for his country and the people in it. ==== ====3. Abena, a mother who has experienced this horror first hand would support my decisions. She is a member of the Tigrean ethnicity, who are arch rivals with the Oromo ethnicity. With the scarcity of food, she has been forced to interact with them and share food resources with them. Her youngest child has passed away due to lack of food, while her other kids are experiencing growth defects from not getting proper nutrition. She knows the struggle to get food, and any help would be greatly appreciated and supported by her. ====
 * Three people who would support me: **
 * Safety and Rule of Law: ** With starvation becoming a bigger issue in the world today than ever before, safety has become a big issue. People are becoming more desperate which can lead to prostitution and human trafficking and that is a big risk in HIV and AIDS which are another big social issue. None of the indicators really relate directly in my opinion, but when you look at the effects human trafficking can relate indirectly.

**Participation and Human Rights:** I think human rights relates to starvation because in article three it says everyone has the right to life but people are dying everyday due to starvation. Babies who haven’t even been born yet are dying due to the fact that mothers can’t get the proper nutrients they need to sustain the life inside of them and themselves.


 * Sustainable Economic Opportunity: ** Access to water and agriculture play a really big role in famine and starvation because the ground isn’t very fertile in most areas. This makes it hard for food to grow which is one of the causes in starvation. Water access is important because in much of the areas water is polluted and water is hard to come by. You need water to live and you also need it to grow crops.


 * Human Development: ** Child mortality relates to starvation because children need more nutrients to grow and without them they become very weak and die faster than adults. Child mortality is very common in the Horn and it is a big effect from starvation.

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