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Translation needed
- Subject: Translation needed
- From: Robin Turner <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:14:44 +0200
Does anyone feel like translating the following? It's from the
Hunger Site (at http://www.thehungersite.com . They currently
have 55 translations, including Esperanto, so might appreciate a
Lojban one, if only to bump up the numbers. It might also be a
good reading for the beginners' course, since the sentence
structure is quite simple (I'd do the translation myself, but as
people on this list know, my Lojban is weird that it would take
people longer to correct it than to translate from scratch!).
co'o mi'e robin.
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HUNGER FACTS
1. About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or
hunger-related
causes. This is down from 35,000 ten years ago, and 41,000
twenty years
ago. Three- fourths of the deaths are children under the age
of five.
2. Today 10% of children in developing countries die before
the age of five.
This is down from 28% fifty years ago.
3. Famine and wars cause just 10% of hunger deaths, although
these tend
to be the ones you hear about most often. The majority of
hunger deaths
are caused by chronic malnutrition. Families simply cannot
get enough to
eat. This in turn is caused by extreme poverty.
4. Besides death, chronic malnutrition also causes impaired
vision,
listlessness, stunted growth, and greatly increased
susceptibility to disease.
Severely malnourished people are unable to function at even a
basic level.
5. It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world
suffer from
hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who
actually
die from it each year.
6. Often it takes just a few simple resources for
impoverished people to be
able to grow enough food to become self-sufficient. These
resources
include quality seeds, appropriate tools, and access to
water. Small
improvements in farming techniques and food storage methods
are also
helpful.
7. Many hunger experts believe that ultimately the best way
to reduce
hunger is through education. Educated people are best able to
break out
of the cycle of poverty that causes hunger.
Sources (by paragraph):
1) The Hunger Project, United Nations
2) CARE
3) The Institute for Food and Development Policy
4) United Nations World Food Program (WFP)
5) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(FAO)
6) Oxfam
7) United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)