Write An Essay About My Village

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<p>My name is not important, but for the purpose of this paper, and to give a more personal perspective, you can call me Kumi. I am eighteen years old and live in a little village in Ethiopia. My living conditions are far from adequate, and my only memories of childhood are hunger and disease. Health problems around my village arise from poor hygiene, sanitation, and scarcity of water.</p>

I am hungry, so hungry everyday that I must force myself to stand up to find food. On a good day I will have a breakfast consisting of small portion of bean mush, and maybe a small piece of bread. Not even enough to stop the hunger pains that I have grown so accustomed to. But that would be a good day. I live with my mother and father, and we are all farmers. We work the lands near are village, and the crops we grow are our main source of income. Most days for me start out at the first sign of light without anything to eat, going to work in the fields. All day long I spend hungry …show more content…

Several reasons are from our physical environment. The climate in my village has a severe impact on our nutrition. My village has a horrible history of extreme droughts. Sometimes the droughts are so bad that it is to dry to grow crops, which our primary source of food. The best time to avoid the drought is during are rainy season, which is distinctly from April to September. When the land is not ruined by the climate it is still hard to grow crops. When we can farm there is not enough land. The farmable land around my village is not nearly enough to produce food for everyone who lives here. And there is hardly any water to make the food grow, or for us to drink. We are drilling borehole wells where water shortage is critical to improve hygiene and sanitation. There are also other factors, which cause us undernutrtion, such as our poverty stricken economy, culture, and

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