What we can do to help ease world hunger? - Part 1

Assalamualaikum and hello there..

Now people are busy talking about Bazaar Ramadhan and Hari Raya that just around the corner. We should be proud to be Malaysians because we did not involved with poverty and hunger. We often heard about people’s desire to solve world hunger, or to be able to feed the world and help alleviate the suffering or things that associated with it.

However, the meaningful long-term alleviation to hunger is rooted in the alleviation of poverty, as poverty leads to hunger. World hunger is a terrible symptom of world poverty. If efforts are only directed at providing food, or improving food production or distribution, then the structural root causes that create hunger, poverty and dependency would still remain. And so while continuous effort, resources and energies are deployed to relieve hunger through these technical measures, the political causes require political solutions as well.

We can take an example of world's hunger problem which occurred in this world. Take a look at what had happened in Somalia. More than 11 millions of people are fleeing drought and famine in Somalia in search of food and water in refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. The crisis has been brought on by a deadly combination of severe drought, with no rain in the region of two years, a huge spike in food prices and a brutal civil war in Somalia, where it is too dangerous for aid workers to operate and help the hunger.

Drought!!!

What did you feel when looking at this boy???

Pity them!

 Somalians are walking as far as 50 miles to reach the Dadaab complex in eastern Kenya which is the largest refugee camp in the world. The trek can take weeks through punishing terrain, which is desolate except for the carcasses that litter the land.

Children are suffering and so their mother too

Waiting for what? Food? Medical treatment?

Sadness shown up on this mother's face

Look at this poor little child ! Such a sad moment

People getting sick because of drought and hunger

What can you do to help this little child?

Thinking of his future

 Through this example of world hunger like in Somalia, what can we do to help ease world hunger?? There are many ways that we can use to ease world hunger such as:

• Influence public policy to support poor people.
• Get your employer to adopt a hunger-relief organization: encourage co-workers to volunteer; invite the organization to speak at work; publicize the organization's activities in your company newsletter.
• Empower people to create, stock and manage their own food banks at the community level.
• Contribute financially to reduce hunger and poverty.
• Work directly with poor people.
• Develop income-generating activities.

They are waiting for food !!

Que up for food !

That are some of the ways we can use to ease world hunger. Actually there are many other ways to ease world hunger because it depends on the individual or organization to do in their own ways. Till the next post, we are going to tell you more about World Hunger Facts and some of the other ways to help ease world hunger.

Goodbye~