Hunger: The most shameful issue faced by humanity in this ages and era

The next time you sit down to indulge the warm meal prepared with love, tenderness and warmth with aromas tinglying the nostrils and neurons firing away making your mouth water, Please take a moment and think of the 18,000 childeren who die every single DAY due to hunger and malnutrition. Think of those mothers who put a pot on the stove with pebbles inside, just to pacify those hungry eyes.

The world procudes enough food to sustain the 6.5 billion people in the world. Yet 850 million people go to bed every night with empty stomachs, 11 million children die before their fifth birthday every year and a child dies every 5 seconds due to hunger related circumstances.

This situation is a stark embaracement for the human kind considering the obesity statistics around the world where 22 million of the world's children under 5 are overweight or obese, Nearly one-third of U.S. adults are obese and obesity is associated with about 112,000 excess deaths per year in the U.S. population relative to healthy weight individuals. The total costs realted to obesity in US alone is $117 billion per year!

This involves both direct and indirect costs. Direct health care costs refer to preventive, diagnostic, and treatment services such as physician visits, medications, and hospital and nursing home care. Indirect costs are the value of wages lost by people unable to work because of illness or disability, as well as the value of future earnings lost by premature death

So what can you do to diminish the imbalance in the food distribution around the world. Participate in the organised events, creat awareness about the issue, talk to friend, and only talking will not help : TAKE ACTION! be it as small as donating money.

Today the World Food Program organised Fight Hunger: Walk the World. "..is a global fundraising and awareness event that takes place every year in all times zones with one sole purpose - to call for an end to child hunger.Today the World Food Progamme and its many partners are taking to the streets to make a global statement: children should not die of hunger in a world where there is enough food for them all to eat. In many parts of the world today is Mother's Day. If you’re celebrating Mother’s Day today spare a thought for the many mothers who lose their children to hunger every day"

In Rotterdam 2500 people walked despite the poor weather conditions and the fear pf rain. The proceedes from the events went towards feeding the children in Africa. If you missed the event here is your opportunity to take the firts step of making a difference:

www.wfp.org

and Donate

Your donation of Euro 25 can sustain a child for a whole year

Open up your heart and liberate your mind