Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive

This is a post for charity. For those who are living in America, please read. For those who are not, please help to spread the word.

I have three picky eaters at home who would pick and choose and tell me what they want to eat and what they do not want to eat. It is sad to see this when I think about children who die of hunger. While our children are picking and choosing, the poor children out there would take anything they can find. Sometimes, I would print pictures of children who are starving or children who have malnutrition and show them to my children, hoping that they would be grateful for the food they have.

Let’s look at the statistics:

Out of the 6.7 billion world population, 3.6 million people died of hunger this year (statistics as of today, 5^th May 2008. Source: here) while 35 million Americans are at risk of hunger and 96 billion pounds of food are thrown away by the food industry in America each year.

Why this difference? Why are some people enjoying good food while some others starve almost everyday? What can we, humans who are lucky enough to have food everyday, help other humans who are longing to have a bite of anything?

Each and every individual in America can do their part this Saturday, 10 May 2008, by participating in the “Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive”, the nation’s biggest one-day food drive. With joint efforts by Campbell Soup Company and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), the purpose of this food drive is to reduce hunger through delivery of collected food items to food bank members of America 's Second Harvest – The Nation's Food Bank Network and other hunger relief organizations in more than 10,000 local communities.

You don’t have to be very rich to help. All you need to do is to donate nonperishable food items such as canned soup, canned meat and fish, canned juices, canned vegetables and fruits, boxed goods (cereal, etc.) as well as pasta and rice, which are not expired, by placing them in a sturdy bag next to your mail box before the regular mail collection time. 230,000 letter carriers would then collect these items all across the country. Please do not place food items in breakable containers such as glass.

This picture is not intended to portray racial discrimination.

With a simple gesture, you are helping to reduce hunger.