Around the world, people
have developed cities, countries, and even advanced buildings. We can see
hundreds of skyscrapers, apartments, buildings, and even monuments, such as
Monumen Nasional located in our own country. There’s also Eiffel Tower, which
is also a monument, located in France, and sure it’s taller than Monumen
Nasional. There
are so many Buildings taller than these monuments. These buildings prove that our life
of humanity has grown fast and technologies are developing and advancing faster
than we think.
But, do you all really
know what’s behind of all this prosperity? Behind the greatness of monuments,
tall buildings, there is something they hides behind that man people refuse to know. And that is, GLOBAL HUNGER . Many people AROUND the world
can’t eat 2 meals a day as a result millions of people die each year because of
starvation.And the numbers keep increasing .
Once, my maid told me of her village,
where most of the people living there suffered from poverty. Many crops failed,
like a dust blowing through the land, and they had no food to eat there. Few
people were well educated, and lazy to work hard and earn for the village.
Since then, my
maid believed that hunger was
the worst problem in the village and so she came to the city to earn a living for
herself and her family.
The world we know today
is different from what our maids tell us. Food
prices are rising, economic crisis everywhere, crops failed because of drastic
climate change. All of these becomes worse with problems of hunger, which kills
more than 50 thousand people around the world per day, about two and a half
stadium with full of people daily. That would be about 18 million people die
every year. Another note, the number of people dying of hunger increased 11%
from year 2008 to year 2009.
Compared to people in
Africa, they are worse than we could imagine. Think about it, they don’t eat
for weeks, or hardly get any meals . Compared to us, only few hours and we are
starving and craving for food again. Same as Ethiopia, where the worst hunger
in the world is in the country.
My Purpose of sharing you this, is make you all realize and appriciate the food that we can enjoy
everyday. We are asked to say our prayers before we start eating, We need to
also thank god and our parents for the food given to us.
Sometimes if we get
the opportunities , we should do what we can to help a hungry person or a
hungry child on the streets , i have known that sharing our food with the less
fortunate does not make us hungry , it fulfills our soul.
So let us help and do what we can to those who are still in hunger and starvation.
