Kanaʻi Gibson
1 July 2021 Current Event Analysis Homelessness and Poverty is a major problem in the country Sudan study says By Lisa Schlein,VOA Sudan – 1 July 2021 Summary: On July 1st in the year 2021 there was research done about the homelessness and poverty that goes on in the country Sudan located in Africa. This site talks about people in need and the homeless people of Sudan. It talks about how many people there are and what actions are being taken. In this news article it talks about a storm that has caused hundreds of thousands of people to go homeless. There is a a organization called GENEVA which is an aid agency that is trying frantically to help out more than 16,000 ethiopean homeless people. It also talks about how the storm destroyed 4 to 10,000 homes, making thousands homeless(Storms Render Thousands of Ethiopian Refugees in Sudan Homeless, 2021). The civilization of Sudan is suffering and there are other effects of homelessness being present. For example ethnic tensions are escalating into violence due to breakdowns in the rule of law. Floods continue to be a life-threatening hazard and infections such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), cholera, polio, and chikungunya are still common. The Bias in this article is that homlessness needs to be helped. This article also begins to talk about UNHCR which is an organization that is helping to build homeless shelters, roads, and “A total of 10,000 emergency shelter kits are planned for distribution with an additional 5,000 in reserve” (Storms Render Thousands of Ethiopian Refugees in Sudan Homeless, 2021). Geography Theme: One of the themes of geography is location. The location has a lot to do with the people that find themselves homeless. This article relates to this theme because it talks about certain things that happened which lead to homelessness but then gave their solution to this problem. As an example according to Sudan Appeal , “The economic crisis is causing widespread malnutrition; lapses in the rule of law are allowing ethnic tensions to erupt into violence; flooding remains life-threatening; and diseases, including coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), cholera, polio and chikungunya, remain prevalent”(Sudan Appeal, 2021). After that quote it goes on to the different things that they are going to do and what they are doing to fix this problem. In the Sudan Appeal it talks about all these problems but it is not a surprise because it also talks about the same problem in the VOA news article. Geography is very important to this event. But in order to find a solution to this problem we must first know what geography is. Geography is the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these. Including the distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries. All of these things that have to do with geography are very important and important to this event or homelessness, for example industries. If there were enough industries then there wouldnʻt be homlessness because there would be enough jobs and people would be able to make enough money so they can have a place to live, sleep, eat, and just have the simple things that we have. Second would be location and location is just natural selection, it just so happened that Africa or Sudan was dealt a bad hand. My 3rd and final example of why geography is important to this event is human activity, being homeless is sometimes people's own fault, they either do drugs or they make a mistake and make a bad choice that they shouldnʻt have and end up homeless. Human activity has many things to do with homlessness which is my event and it also has to do with geography and that is the reason why geography is so important to my event. Reaction: My reaction to this article was scared, sad, but also surprised at the same time. At first I felt scared because there are so many people going homeless and I was thinking about how easily this could happen to me. I was scared because it is so easy for someone to become homeless and I donʻt want that for myself, I want to have a family and a house and a dog. I want all the joys of life and becoming homeless would take all of that away from me which is why at first I was scared that the things happening to these people would happen to me. My second feeling or reaction was a feeling of sadness, I felt sad for all the millions of people who are suffering. In the Sudan Appeal article it talks about how there are over 13.4 million people enduring complex, interconnecting challenges in Sudan. 7.4 million of these people are children my age and younger (Sudan Appeal, 2021). This made me sad because I started to think of all the things I have and how grateful I am to have it. I also felt sad because these statistics are only in Sudan, imagine the impact there is on the whole world. 13.4 million people are homeless and that's only in 1 country, it breaks my heart to know there are people suffering while I am living the life. This article and overall project has been an eye opener to how many privileges and good things that I have in my life. My last reaction that I had from this article was surprised because of how many people are homeless. I thought there would be maybe a couple thousand but no, there are 13.4 million people only in Sudan who are homeless and to me this was very surprising and a very big shock. Connection/Analysis: The World History theme related to this article is advocating for change. In the article it shows statistics and how many homeless people there are in Sudan. This has to do with advocating for change because it brings attention and gets people to notice this problem. People can't change something they donʻt know about so this article is making people know about it by showing them what is going on so that people can make a change. This website is also advocating for change by actually doing something about homelessness and trying to fix this problem. They have 330,000 children admitted for treatment for severe acute malnutrition, 2.8 million people accessing a sufficient quantity of safe water, 203,200 women and children accessing gender-based violence risk mitigation/ prevention/response, and 2,434 schools implementing safe school protocols (Sudan Appeal, 2021). This website is advocating for change and is giving statistics but the VOA news article is giving general information about what happened in Sudan, they are bringing awareness and helping other people to know there is a problem that needs to be helped.If they can get people to notice this problem then everyone can start making a change before it is too late. Reference: Sudan Appeal. (2021, June 21). Unicef.org. https://www.unicef.org/appeals/sudan Other References: Storms Render Thousands of Ethiopian Refugees in Sudan Homeless. (2021). Voice of America. https://www.voanews.com/africa/south-sudan-focus/storms-render-thousands-ethiopian-refugees-sudan-homeless
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