My Reflection on World Hunger 1

My Reflections on the News article, “Fight to End World Hunger Could Still be Lost, says FAO” by Joe DeCapua

With the improved medical care conditions and the cutting-edge technological development, I have expected that the actual number of starving people worldwide should have decreased to some extent. Contrary to my optimistic expectation, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization reveals that the number of malnourished people has increased to 1 billion people. This is largely due to current economic downturn compounded with more expensive current food prices.

The author further discusses how the actual number of donators can be considerably lower than the number of future donators who pledged to contribute to the funds for fighting for hunger issues. I could understand how well-intentioned people who had originally wanted to help out the poor turned out to fail to keep their own promises. I believe that these people might have felt burdened at their own economic situations in this economic downturn, resulting in breaking promises without intending to do it. As an undergraduate student, I can very relate to this situation because I had once pledged to send a black goat to North Korea by sincerely promising to donate approximately $250 and ended up breaking my promise. That black goat was supposed to save one household in North Korea to survive. I can’t describe how frustrated I am. This pledge was made in 2000 and I am still feeling very bad about my broken promise until now. I hope that I could find a good way to keep this promise as soon as I graduate and get a decent job in the future. As an article discusses, the vicious circle of poverty keeps happening and it is very hard to break this pattern of vicious circle. It is because that the poor people with high population would naturally have limited spaces of land, which would hinder them from investing more into the land. This lack of resources will only feed the few. The dismal reality will cruelly snatch a brighter future away from the unfortunate. Indeed, these dying people desperately need us, who are more fortunate than they are. Don’t you believe that it is our responsibility to share at least some portions of our resources to save these dying people? Maybe we possess more resources so that we could share our privilege together… and to be able to reach out for these global neighbors….

What if we were there… , crying for hunger and crying for survival every day, and they were in our positions, instead?
…… Shouldn’t we do something about it?

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