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Today on the way to my grandmother’s house, i listened to a radio broadcast.
It was a sailor’s narration of his mission trip to a poor african country.
He said that once he went to an african country (which i cant get the name). The country has been embroiled in civil war for a long time. It has a large population but many of the citizens were killed in this long lasting civil war. Needless to say, the country is very poor and her people are suffering in poverty.
American volunteers came to this village to teach the people english. Like how we always teach children english, we started with ABCs. So they started teaching them " A for apples , B for Bananas, C for Cat etc ." There was once, after lunch, the teacher asked the pupils " What did you eat for lunch ? Apples ? "
Then one by one replied " Water, nothing, nothing, water, nothing , water . " Almost all the replies were water and nothing. All the volunteers were stumped. And this created a big impression on the sailor.
He said that there were plenty of food on the ship and clean water was easy to get but these people had nothing. While we have our daily 3 meals, clean water, electricity,lights, entertainment, they have nothing. They already don’t have anything for lunch, how can they have apples? They had most probably never seen apples , bananas and cat before. and if there was any cat, it will probably eaten by the hungry people.
It’s puzzling why the world still have starving people when the world has produced enough food for everyone . Isnt it an irony when we are throwing leftover food into rubbish bin at night when millions of people are going to sleep starving? Why is it that everytime i walked into the canteen and the food court to see so many food half eaten and being left on the table? Why do people waste food for the sake of maintain a slim figure? Why are there so many whys?
Food should not be treated this way. In the past when food doesnt come so easily, people used to worship and pray to god so that they can get enough of it. Food is respected and not wasted away. Now, food comes so easily that we no longer cherish it. We choose what we eat, when we don’t like it we throw it away.
My dad is a farmer. i saw how much blood and sweat that has been put into for the vegetables to grow. They have to work from morning till night. I believe other kind of food requires such hard work. So i always try my best to finish my all my food. Furthermore, there are many other people who are lack of food. What makes you think that you deserve the food more than them and you can waste them away?
Because of poor goverance, polictics and human selfish nature, food cannot get to those who need them. We as small citizens cannot change this big fact and providing food for all the people starving. What we can do is to jus donate money to organisations which can reach these people , hope the money wont get corrupted away and don’t waste your food. Remember that we should never take things for granted, we should cherish the things that we are bewstowed upon and thank god that we are the fortunate lot.
