Time to Act Against Hunger

TIME TO ACT against hunger

When it comes to hunger, talking about it delays food delivery, conferencing holds things up and blaming prolongs it. There is food, people and technology and now, it’s TIME TO ACT.

According to WFP, “Every six seconds a child dies because of hunger”. No mother should have to watch her child die because of a lack of food no matter what her religion, creed, nationality or marital status. On the international women’s, let’s use this day, as the day the world will act to fight hunger.
Just imagine dying because of hunger. Imagine the pain and suffering that a small child goes through before his or body experiences before it reaches the end!

If you’re a woman, look into your heart and feel the unimaginable pain of a mother’s inability to feed her child. No where to go, no help, no New York City garbage in which she would certainly find decent meals for her child, no access to the abundance of food that many take for granted and throw away without the thought of the availability of food to millions of men, women and children in many corners of the world.

Today on international women’s day, I ask you to reach into your heart and do something to relieve human beings of hunger. It’s TIME TO ACT NOW!

If you’re a man, see yourself as unable to feed your child, to feed yourself.

Let’s not forget that in a downturn economy, families still have to feed themselves and their children. While many may go hungry, some will be too proud to admit it and seek help. Reach out to those you know may be experiencing hunger. Keep in mind that hunger is not limited to developing and poor countries. Throughout the world, many go without food. Single women with children especially are more vulnerable. Reach out and help fight hunger. Don’t talk about it, don’t conference on it, ACT NOW!

Here are 10 little steps you can take to help fight hunger:

1. Tutor a child. It will ensure that child will succeed in school (education helps against hunger)

2. Mentor a child and be a positive role model (mentoring can discourage truancy, prevent a teenage pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse and help prevent a young person from entering the circle of poverty)

3. Give to your local food bank

4. Freeze your leftovers or eat them the next day and give a little to a church for charity

5. Teach an illiterate person to read or write (education is key in fighting hunger)

6. Read with your child or take your child to a trip to the local library (it will help reinforce education as the best tool against poverty)

7. Give to organizations that feed the hungry (make sure when you give money, the administrative cost is at least less than 50% than what you give)

8. Grow a garden and share it with your local food bank or homeless shelter

9. Share less costly recipes with your friends, colleagues and neighbors

10. Get rid of your clutter and hold a garage or yard sale and donate the money to organizations that fight hunger

It’s time to ACT NOW against hunger.