Did you know, that while you are drinking from the water fountain that is near your classroom, every 20 seconds a child is dying because they don't have access to clean water? Or that while you are thinking about quadratics for your math test, there are children that just dream of attending school?

Around the world, there are crises that need to be solved, and a whole world out there for you to discover. There is more to the life, and to the world, then you will ever know. Change it, and make a difference.

World Hunger and Poverty:

World hunger refers to aggravated hunger around the world, usually in developing countries, where hunger is reached to extreme levels. This is including malnutrition, which also commonly results in death. Around 759 billion people around the world, suffered from chronic malnourishment in 2014-2106. Malnutrition and world hunger causes stunts resulting  in child growth restriction, and many fatal diseases resulting in death. These diseases include malaria, diarrhea, measles, and pneumonia.

Causes:

1. Poverty

2. Harmful Economic systems: economic productivity that is unproductive and harmful, and is a key feature for economic structures in society. An example of this would be how in some developing countries,products can be relocated through force, as well as law backed by force(which means that you can produce goods and take them away from others)

3. Conflict:Worldwide violence, internally displaced persons, and refugees running away from conflict from another country

How you can solve the problem:

Work in the Heifer organisation, with the goal of  ending world hunger, by providing people in developing countries, ways for themselves to have sustainable food for life.

Global Water Crisis

The global water crisis is when people around developing countries don't have access to clean water. This results for usually women and children in developing communities, walking around 6-8 hours a day, just to fetch dirty water. This results in not having sustainable agricultural growth,  not having education, death, and disease. The water crisis kills more people than AIDS, malaria, and world violence combined.

Causes:

Many of the water sources in developing countries are highly polluted. That is because there is very little access to adequate wastewater facilities, which results in water being used as open sewers for human waste products and garbage.

How you can solve the problem:

There are water organisations, that have the goal of building wells in developing countries, to provide access to clean water for communities. An example of the largest youth activism organisation would be the Thirst Project organisation.

Sex Trafficking/Forced Labor/Women's Rights

The trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation. About 20.9 million adults and children are bought and sold worldwide, in sexual trafficking, as forced  and bonded labor. 98% of those victims are women and girls. Many girls are also forced into child marriage, denying them basic human rights, usually resulting in domestic abuse from the partner, and preventing them from having an education. Around every seven seconds, a girl under the age of 15 is being married.

Causes:

Sex trafficking is thriving, because there is a serious demand. The buyer's fuel the market by giving their money and the trafficker earns revenue from the buyers by exploiting victims. Many girls around the world are denied  basic rights, based on sexism and the cultural values of certain societies. For example,sometimes girls are married off to families at a young age because it's seen as a way to protect them since it will be the responsibility of the husband to take care of them.

How you can solve the problem:

You can get involved in Shared Hope International, is an organisation with the goal of ending sex trafficking.

World Education Crisis

Education is the key way to break poverty. However, there are more than 2.7 million people, who are living in less than 2$ per a day. These schools in many developing countries, such as Ghana, are failing  to provide children with the quality education that they deserve. In countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, India, and Liberia, teachers are absent 47% of the time, and 65% of the time the teachers can't pass  exams based on the curriculum they are supposed to teach. To make even these matters worse, these public schools are expensive.

Causes:

People that are in poverty, face extreme inequality and marginalization. Factors linking to poverty such as unemployment, illness, and illiteracy of parents, double  the risk of non-schooling and drop outs. Often times, many children from disadvantaged backgrounds are forced to abandon their education, due to health problems related to malnutrition, or in order to work to provide for their family. Also, in many developing countries around the world, public high school is very expensive, so children from poor backgrounds often cannot attend.

How you can solve the problem:

Get involved with the Yuda Band project, a non-profit with the goal of selling bands hand made from Guatemala, in order to give scholarships for students to continue their education.