Famine Challenge Series--Food

The third famine challenge that i would like to share is about food.

"Every child should have enough food to eat to grow healthily."
Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 24

Everyday, 40,000 children under the age of five die from malnutrition.

CAMBODIA--"we're starving, and the best food we can afford is rat meat." Ty, 12, and her family live on the streets.

Every day, 3-year-old Tsepiso (left) suffers the consequences of Lesotho's worst drought in 30 years. "Sometimes I'm hungry and there's no food at home," says her sister, 5-year-old Selloane. "So I go to my relatives' house to eat. My mom sends me." Even when there is food, it's often just starch. "When I don't have any money to buy vegetables or beans, we eat plain maize meal like today, and sometimes we eat twice instead of three times a day," says the girls' mother. In this photo, Tsepiso shares a lunch of maize with her cousin, Mookho.Children and their families in southern Africa — specifically the countries of Lesotho, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe — are facing the risk of starvation because of recent drought. The leaders of all three countries have declared states of emergency, as they are facing a massive food shortage with no reprieve in sight.

12 million people are going without food in Southern Africa. Severe dry spells, drought and recent heavy rains as well as flooding have contributed to the emergency food shortage. Three-year-old John Bulhani are waiting for a life-saving, daily ration of a corn-soybean-blend cereal which is provided to children under the age of five by a world vision sponsored program.




Just want to ask you all a question：

Do you know what is the main cause of hunger?

A. War
B. Food shortages
C. Over-population
D. Poverty

Think before see the answer ya.
The answer is D, poverty.

Do you know that the world produces enough food to feed everyone but many do not have enough land to grow food for themselves, nor do they have money to buy it from others.
They may not look hungry, but the lack of nutrition is silently weakening their immune systems. They take longer to recover from illness and are likely to fall sick again.

photos are adopted from World Vision Website
Information adopted from : The 10th Anniversary 30-hour Famine Camper's Handbook

postscript:
We tends to waste alot of food, especially when we have our meal outside. Many of the meal's portion is quite big and we can't finish it. But if we are willing to share the food with others surrounding us by offering some of the food, food wastage can be be reduced to minimum.
I tend to scold friends that like to waste food and i know they are unhappy with it. But after a period of time,i saw some changes on their behaviour, they are much more appreciating their food as compare last time. This is a good sign, this means that they are listening to what I said, and willing to change.
For those like to waste food, please remember that everyday, there are 40,000 children under the age of five die from malnutrition. And you, indirectly deprive their sources of getting food.