Tuesday night I went to the third annual ONE Campaign Hunger Banquet. The speaker was Natalie Sugira who is a refugee who immigrated to the United States from Rwanda. She addressed many world issues including education. Natalie grew up in Rwanda in a family of multiple children. While growing up she was the only one of her siblings who was able to go to secondary school. Her father sold their cows and goats in order for her to be educated, to this day she does not know why he did this and put he rest of the family in jeopardy. Unfortunately she was never able to find this out and lost her parents in the genocide.
The ONE Campaign raises awareness on many global concerns issues and while experiencing an assimilation of how the world distributes food, I am shocked at our worlds in ability to share. I was thinking about how all around the world we teach our children to share and yet as adults, and as main beings in power it is made far from a fair level of sharing. How is it that we have more than enough to eat 3 meals a day and yet in parts of the world meals are skipped on a regular basis and when the are available they are small portions of rice and maybe beans.
I can only hope that our generation runs with these issues and speaks out against it. The ONE Campaign has some great goal but without people spreading the word, nobody will ever do anything about it. The millennium project will continue until the year 2015 and I can only hope that by then many great things can happen, to follow those that have already happened.
I encourage people to check out www.one.org/us
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