A World Without Hunger

Cecilia Sheryl Soehada

29 January 2013

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West Jakarta, Indonesia

Dear editor,

Do you want a world without hunger? I have a solution that might help decrease the number of death per year due to hunger. 

World hunger is a major problem in Indonesia, but it isn’t as bad as hunger problems in Africa. Children die because of sicknesses like diarrhea due to lack of food and water to consume. 

Indonesia is a country rich in spices but we don’t really benefit from it. There are still lots of children living in the busy streets of Jakarta. A lot of them are orphans, some of their parents died from sickness and they don’t have enough money for proper medication, some of them left their daughter/son because they are irresponsible and they do not have enough money to raise their child on their own. Children at very young age have to work or beg in order to keep them alive, or maybe take care of their siblings. It is really heartbreaking to see those poor children roaming around the city to collect trash to sell, or walking in the streets while singing songs and bringing pity to rich people to give them money. If they do not get enough money, they won’t afford to buy food to eat, or water to drink. Hunger is one of the main reasons for death (children dying in young age) in Indonesia.

It is not supposed to be like this. Little things can make a huge difference. I believe we can change this negative perception if we try our best. It is not that hard. In my opinion, giving them money when they beg doesn’t change anything, it just makes them lazier, they have to earn their own money, in that way, we could change their personality, the way they think, we could make them brighter.

School is one of the ways to reduce hunger problems. We go to school in order to have greater education. School is a place where we can learn and grow. We learn lots of things in school, starting from education about life (worldview, humanities) and education about how things happen, how to solve equations and problems (math, science), and how to communicate with others (English). We keep knowledge so that we may succeed in life.

In life, we have to do a lot of things in order to live with enjoyment, such as going to school, working to earn money, and to believe in one God. Life is all about choices, pick the right one and you are good to go.

Now there are a lot of organizations like orphanage and charities to donate for the poor. We should pay attention to this, there are so many organizations like this but nothing is changing, people still starve to death, they still live on streets and this leads to stealing. When people are desperate for money and they gave up on working, most of them become bad people, they steal other people’s belongings, for example: robbery.

If we provide jobs for the poor and give them a place for shelter until they have enough money to buy there own homes and buy food and drinks to decrease the amount of death per year. If we donate enough to pay the bills to buy a huge land for shelter for a lot of poor people, they can survive by working. Their children can study for free until they can work and live on their own.

This is from my point of view. Do not be greedy when you are eating, maybe we could spare a portion of our food and share it with people who needs it more than us. Each year, donate 10% of your earnings to organizations to help them. Or maybe in  the future, you might be the one who will built these organizations. Small things like this helps, it might not solve the whole problem, but it with help. 

Stop world hunger and make a difference!

“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.” 
― Bertolt Brecht

Peace Symbol

Peace Symbols (the Dove and the Olive Branch)

Doves mate for life, are incredibly loyal to each other and work together to build their nest and raise their young. Because they tend to nest in areas that humans can watch, people picked up quickly on the idea that doves were dedicated, honorable and peaceful.

While hawks and other birds of prey would violently attack their neighbors, the dove was a bird of peace, eating seeds, easily trained to eat out of the hand or to become domesticated.

Beginning with the Egyptians, the dove was as symbol of quiet innocence. The Chinese felt the dove was a symbol of peace and long life.

To early Greeks and Romans, doves represented love and devotion, and care for a family. The dove was the sacred animal of Aphrodite and Venus, the goddesses of love. The dove also symbolized the peaceful soul for many cultures.

The Bible continued this symbolism, often referring to the dove as an animal representing love, loyalty, fidelity and honesty. The dove is entrusted with the olive branch when Noah hopes to find a new home for himself and his flock. The dove often also represents the Holy Spirit.

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The Story About Noah (relating to the peace symbol)

God saw how great wickedness had become and decided to wipe mankind from the face of the earth. However, one righteous man among all the people of that time, Noah, found favor in God's eyes. With very specific instructions, God told Noah to build an ark for him and his family in preparation for a catastrophic flood that would destroy every living thing on earth.

God also instructed Noah to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, both male and female, and seven pairs of all the clean animals, along with every kind of food to be stored for the animals and his family while on the ark. Noah obeyed everything God commanded him to do.

After they entered the ark, rain fell on the earth for a period of forty days and nights. The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days, and every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out. As the waters receded, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. Noah and his family continued to wait for almost eight more months while the surface of the earth dried out.

Finally after an entire year, God invited Noah to come out of the ark. Immediately, he built an altar and worshiped the Lord with burnt offerings from some of the clean animals. God was pleased with the offerings and promised never again to destroy all the living creatures as he had just done. Later God established a covenant with Noah: "Never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth." As a sign of this everlasting covenant God set a rainbow in the clouds.

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