12/08/2024
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In accordance to statistics from World Food Programme, the scale of the current global hunger and malnutrition crisis is enormous. A shocking 37.2 million people face emergency levels of hunger, while 1.3 million people are in the grips of catastrophic hunger โ teetering on the brink of famine.
In alignment with the SIKAD 2024 (Sinag ng Kalinangan, Agapay, at Dalubhasaan), the University Supreme Student Council (USSC), as the highest student body council of Central Luzon State University, came to the resolution in their minds wholly, as a result of consideration, to conduct a feeding program namely "Happy Tummy."
From the title itself, the primary objective is to satiate numerous normal individuals with such scrumptious soup as they leave not only with smiles on their faces, as a product of food consumption, but also with repleted stomachs.
"Bali, โyung feeding program usually ay tuwing SIKAD talaga siya. Ang goal talaga kasi ng SIKAD is para siyang fiesta na napakaraming pagkain parang ganoโon. โYung theme natin ay SDG and kapag gumagawa kami ng ROMD [ay] laging number 1 priority ng SIKAD ang SDG number 2 [at] pang-welcome na rin hindi lang sa freshies kung 'di sa buong CLSU community." These are informative words from Mx. Rod Mendoza, the head of the feeding program.
Indeed, the preparation of USSC towards the aforementioned program immensely contributed to the diminish of starvation of students even for a short period of time, yet will then impact one's sense of direction for long.
Students who visited the stall avoided themselves to be appreciative surreptitiously, as student leaders from the USSC immersed themselves into the realm wherein the foremost precedence is the wellness and health of each Sielesyuans in need of assistance. Surely, the brain of this program was equipped with adequate knowledge and capacities to serve the studentry and the masses.
According Mx. Diane Saguran, another student leader from the USSC, the reason why there are so many starving people is that "I think because sa bansa natin ay sobrang talamak ang mga taong mahihirap. So, marami talaga ang kapos and given that our government is not functioning well, mas lalo pang tumataas ang mga bilihin pero ang sweldo ng mga tao at ang employment rate natin [ay] hindi naman nag-i-increase. So, instead sana na matulungan ang mga taong nasa laylayan, mas nai-include pa sila ro'n kaya mas dumarami ang mga batang nagugutom. And I think dahil marami sa atin ang uneducated who to vote kaya dapat talaga ay iboto ang mga tamang tao upang matulungan tayo in a right way."
This vastly supports that our power as a consumer and voter means a lotโindubitably impactful that can transmute lives into something thirst quenchingโconveniently satisfying. With this, demanding businesses and governments make the choices and changes that will make Zero Hunger a reality and free from obscurity.
In addition to this, we should care as strengthened by the claim of Mx. Diane, for the reason that "As an aspiring student leader, I want to make a change kasi gusto kong makatulong sa mga taong nakapaligid sa akin because ang sarap sa pakiramdam ng nakakatulong ka and at the same time ay naniniwala ako sa kabaitan at unity ng tao kapag nakakatulong."
Another point worth to consider is the fact that we all want our families to have enough food to eat what is safe and nutritious. A world with zero hunger can positively impact our economies, health, education, equality and social development. Itโs a key piece of building a better future for everyone. Additionally, with hunger limiting human development, we will not be able to achieve the other sustainable development goals such as education, health and gender equality.
We can be able to achieve Zero Hunger, since food security requires a multi-dimensional approach โ from social protection to safeguard safe and nutritious food especially for children to transforming food systems to achieve a more inclusive and sustainable world. There will need to be investments in rural and urban areas and in social protection so famished people have access to food and can improve their livelihoods.
We, normal individuals, were and still are capacitated to ensure changes in our own lifeโat home, at work, and in the communityโby means of supporting local farmers or markets and making sustainable food choices, supporting good nutrition for all, and fighting food waste.
๐๐บ๐ฝ๐น๐ถ๐ณ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ผ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐
We can exterminate the state of being exceedingly poor by allowing ourselves to donate for the incapable ones, halting it by ending hunger. With this, extinguishing poverty is not a task of charity, itโs an act of justice and the key to unlocking an enormous human potential. Still, nearly half of the worldโs population lives in poverty, and lack of food and clean water is killing thousands every single day of the year. Together, we can feed the hungry, wipe out disease and give everyone in the world a chance to prosper and live a productive and rich life.
In this day and age, malnutrition and poverty are two of the most hotly discussed topics that allow us to acquire the capability of awareness of the society where we live, which is filled with inevitable social issues and unpredictable difficulties.
Zero Hunger โ one of the 17 sustainable development goals of United Nationsโabout creating a world free of famine by the year 2030. The worldwide predicament of hunger and food insecurity has shown an alarming and worrisome increase since 2015, a trend exacerbated by a amalgamation of factors that includes the unforeseen pandemic, arousal of conflicts, unfathomable climate change, and deepening lack of equalities.
By means of allowing ourselves to provide for the vulnerable, create food security, achieve equity, implement feeding programs, encourage child participation, and provide access to health care, we might eradicate the predicament of impoverishment and put an end to hunger.
Additionally, the government should address poverty due to the fact that growing inequality hinders social cohesiveness, restricts economic growth, increases political and social tensions, and, in some cases, causes unpredictability and catastrophes.
Taking everything into consideration, in this world of suffering, only the strongest will survive, considering that as long as we have so-called hope and as long as we are fighting for our lives, life will continue to make its own art for us.
๐๏ธ Sean Dysangco
๐ท Mikee Cardenas
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