I do alot of community service through school but this time I wanted to do something real.
In the past year, over 100 million more people have been affected by a food crisis. One small meal a day. Sometimes it means no breakfast, no lunch, no snacks, no drinks, no dinner. Nothing.
There are over 900 million chronically hungry people around the wold and 1.4 billion living in extreme poverty.
18 hours into the famine, I'm not hungry yet, just very tired and weak.
It's amazing how kids in Africa can do this everyday. I'm not eating but I get to sit at home, where it's cool. Kids in Africa can't do that, they have to walk for miles in search of clean water.
I'm doing the famine, yet I get access to clean water when I want. I'm doing the famine but I don't have to walk in the hot sun for hours. I can't imagine what their lives would be like because even by doing the 40 hour famine it's still not enough. I can't imagine what it would be like to live in poverty.
The famine has opened my eyes though. That is real. Hopefully the money I raised can help support some kids, who have nothing.
Kids, who simply aren't as lucky. Life is dependant on fate, any of us could of been one of those kids. Any of us could not have access to food everyday. Any of us could not have access to fresh water. Any of us could of had a life that ended before it even started.
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