COVID-19 HUNGER eKASI – GOAL R 80 000

Poverty is one of the main causes of hunger. If you are poor, you can’t afford nutritious food. This makes it difficult to work or earn a living and often means that people remain in a poverty trap.

Conflicts disrupt farming and food production. Millions of people are often forced to flee their homes, and then they find themselves deprived of access to sufficient food. The vast majority of hungry people in the world live in countries affected by conflicts. Wars or uprisings can also be a direct consequence of hunger: it’s natural to explode with anger when access to food becomes impossible. Food can therefore be a powerful tool in bringing peace to the world.

We human beings have been overlooking the effects of pollution over the past couple of centuries. Pollution has affected the climate causing an increase in extreme weather events – such as floods, tropical storms and long periods of drought. Poor farmers, fishermen, pastoralists and forest dwellers suffer most during and after a natural disaster – they don’t have enough to eat and they are often forced to leave their homes. Rising temperatures as a result of climate change also affect the environment dramatically and can turn healthy soil dry and infertile.

Poverty, war, and natural disasters particularly affect the less wealthy areas of the world today. But even in wealthy, industrialised countries there are large groups of people living in poverty, unable to feed themselves properly. They often live in the same neighbourhoods as overweight or obese people. Overeating and irresponsible consumption of unhealthy junk food are a big part of the hunger problem causing an increased number of deaths every year. 1.9 billion people, which is more than a quarter of the world’s population, are overweight. 600 million of these are obese and adult obesity is rising everywhere at an accelerated pace. The production and waste of huge quantities of food is contributing to pollution, and affecting people’s health everywhere. Malnutrition, therefore, is a global issue: it concerns us all, no matter where we live.

Economic growth is often the key to help countries out of hunger. Sadly, though, when not controlled and fair, it can widen the gap between rich and poor, generating further hunger, conflict and tension. Growth must include vulnerable people and consider society as a whole: it will only work when every single part is considered essential to the whole. We know that people are the special ingredient in the recipe to end world hunger: everyone needs to take action to achieve this common goal.  People who suffer chronic hunger don’t have the option of eating when they are hungry. They do not get enough calories, essential nutrients, or both. People who are hungry have an ongoing problem with getting food to eat. They have a primary need — how to feed themselves and their children today and tomorrow. They have little energy for anything else. Hungry children offer up a little prayer for food. They are among millions going hungry as a result of the national lockdown, which is keeping breadwinners out of work. I have taken an initiative to ask any cent any penny to help provide food for hungry children in the townships. There’s nothing worse than listening to your stomach before you go to bed. And waking up in the morning and you just hear grumbling, you have nothing to eat, you’ve got no other choice.

We would greatly appreciate your generosity and support.

Thanking you in advance.

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