Hunger

Whenever I eat if I didn't finish a meal I would feel really bad. I'm one of those people who eats really slow and to top it off, I'm picky too. So whatever I won't eat I either throw it away of give to someone else. But then I always feel bad about it after, because I know that there are A LOT of people around the world who could benefit from all that food I didn't finish, or the food I didn't want to eat. So when I eat I try to finish everything that I take, try being the world. When I couldn't finish a meal I would silently say a prayer of forgiveness to all the people who are suffering from hunger around the world.

There are about 6.7 billion people in the world currently, and out of that there are around 1.02 billion people who suffer from hunger. Out of those number, around 16,000 children will die of hunger every 5 seconds or of hunger related causes today. Hunger can be define in many ways from starvation to famine. No matter how hunger is define, one important fact is that hunger is a BIG deal!!! It can not be easily ignore.

My three wishes are:

1)For people to know more about hunger themselves first; the more educated you are, the more prepare you are.

2)To get help from the outside media and spread the word

3)Take action; help out in the community or support a organization for world hunger. One tiny action can go a long way.

This picture was actually e-mailed to me by a friend a while back, and I thought that it was very fitting for this topic. I found it very hard to look at this picture without feeling very sad, and hurt inside. Brought tears to my eyes when I first say it.