On the first day to school, a boy asks his dad, “Dad, why do I have to go to school?” to which the Dad replies, “Son, if you go to school and become educated, one day, you will know enough things with which you will be able to earn decent amount of money”. Then the boy asks “But Dad, why do I have to earn money? “ The Dad replies “Because son, when you grow up and I may not be here to take care of you, you will need to feed yourself and money and education will help you do that.”
Illiteracy =>Unemployment => Poverty =>Shortage of food =>World Hunger
Let us try to see if we can solve the above problem in the following way.
Make people literate => so that they can get good employment => to have an income more than the poverty line => to be able to buy food someday => and thus finally prevent World Hunger.
I don’t think anybody would disagree with why the Dad wanted his son to go to school. A lot of people consent that Illiteracy is the biggest cause of world hunger. The reasoning goes as below.
Let us try to see if we can solve the above problem in the following way.
The biggest problem with this approach is that it may take a life time of patience and hard work from both sides to achieve the end result.
Einstein had rightly quoted, “Problems cannot be solved at the same level that created them”. We need to address this problem from the highest level first which is to prevent world hunger.
Ever tried to focus your mind on something when extremely hungry? How does it feel? Now imagine a little boy or girl sent to school to learn hundreds of new things with a hungry stomach all day. How much motivated would he/she be to stay in school least of all interested in listening to the teachers talking about algebra or geography?
Though education may be free in many schools, do you know why close to 13.5 million children in India are still into child labor? For majority of cases it’s just to earn that one single meal in a day!
This month I would like to donate to the charity “Akshaya Patra” (meaning inexhaustible bowl of food) which understands the importance of hunger free children and provides mid day meals to around 1.3 million under privileged children in school. With only 675INR the expenses for providing one mid day meal to one child for one whole year will be covered.
Would this help the child study harder? I don’t know. But would it discourage him/her from doing odd jobs in the worst work environments and motivate him to stay in school longer? Most probably yes!
Would this help the child study harder? I don’t know. But would it discourage him/her from doing odd jobs in the worst work environments and motivate him to stay in school longer? Most probably yes!
Link to the charity website
https://www.akshayapatra.org/
https://www.akshayapatra.org/
Link to the online donation option
