Global Food Crisis Day

Greetings Blogland,

 

This note is sent to you from the safety and security of my happy little office just above the bomb shelter in Windham, Maine.

 

In just a few minutes the minute hand will ring in the new day. For many of us it will be just another humdrum day. For others something exciting might happen. But for many it will be another day not knowing if they will eat, and if they do, will it be enough to fill their grumbling bellies.

Sound like another one of those "guilt trip guys" from the late night infomercials??? Could be a reason for that. While we here suffer from the worst financial crisis our generation has seen we are deciding do i shop at the Gap or Goodwill. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world 25,000 people will die today because they have no food.

 

That amounts to you and 24,999 other you's dying today. For Maine folk, that is just shy of twice the population of Gorham, or nearly three times the population of Standish.
For Californians that is a third of the population of Santa Cruz.

 

It's easy for us to give to charity and feel bad in the moment for some of these folks but maintain a safe distance from them. Today Compassion International along with radio stations around the country "celebrating" Global Food Crises Day, raising awareness of the increasing cost of food and the increasing difficulty getting that food the millions around the world. my challenge to anyone who reads this blog is twofold. First regardless what time of day it is stop eating. Don't put another morsel of food in your mouth until sunrise tomorrow. Join with the millions around the world who are starving in memory of those who died needlessly and those who are suffering now.

Secondly, if you have the means (and not everyone does) go to compassion.com and click on the link that takes you to the Global Food Crisis Day. If you have the money, donate! If you don't but know someone who does, refer them. You who know me have my word that Compassion is legitimate. i have sponsored with them for years and have enjoyed volunteering with them!

 

Don't do it out of guilt, don't do it because i said so. Do it because you are human beings and it could very well have been you in their shoes! And thank God you are not!!