Hunger is a huge issue, and it affects the elderly a lot more than the young. They need people to help them to take care of them. Most of the elderly don’t have families to turn to or ask for help.

We should care about this issue because the population is growing and more and more people are going hungry every day. So if we don’t try to help the people who are hungry now, it will be so much harder to stop hunger later.

According to Feedingamerica.org, there are organizations that help the elderly by going to their houses and making food and helping them in the house. For example, there is a guy named John who got help from this program. Because of the fact that the elderly can’t move around as much as the young, this program can help them a lot by making them food and taking care of them.

Elderly hunger can’t be fully solved. There will always be hunger, but we can help the people that need it. We can give them the food we don’t eat instead of throwing it away, or we can start composting.

The solution will help because the elderly don’t have enough food sometimes there isn’t enough food in pantries and the elderly can’t move fast enough to get to food pantries early.

It would be more help full if we also gave the cooked food to food pantries instead of throwing that away, too. This will help the issue, because if there was more food to feed a lot of people, the elderly wouldn’t have to wait until the next meal.

Rami Mohammad

student, Deering High School

Portland