I saw starving children begging on the streets as I walked to my work site — there was really no end to the challenges of working in this context.
Not only have
we seen the starving children and the bloated cattle on typhoon - wrecked beaches before, but we have also donated to relief efforts after such events before.
Not exact matches
You say Look and
see all the
starving children..
We are informed of approaches that
see no responsibly for
starving children in Africa and that Hitler should just have acted from a more prudent point of view in his treatment of the Jews.
How can one «criticize» the experience of the victim of domestic abuse or incest, the
child refugee who has
seen his family slaughtered by the national police, or the mother who must watch her
children starve?
many
starving children see a different side and give nothing in return... there are good christians who begg money to give clothing, food, and shelter to people who have nothing.
Still, Rabbi Avi Shafran, director of public affairs for Agudath Israel of America, the largest organization of Haredi Jews in the United States,
sees the future differently: «There will be an economic crunch, and there already are many two - income families in the community, but no Haredi Jew is
starving, or having fewer
children because of economic restraints....
Because they can - I have a friend who lived a terrible childhood in a country where it was routine to
see women die in childbirth and
children to
starve to death.
Jessica Schalk, senior team leader at Feed My
Starving Children, says the nonprofit has
seen an increase in the number of kids opting to celebrate their birthdays there.
It would take an entire book to explain how flawed the NSLP has become, how, starting in the 1970s and 80s, the program morphed from an anti-hunger initiative into one in which school districts were so
starved of cash by the federal government (thank you, Ronald Reagan) that school
children came to be
seen as «customers» whose palates must be pleased at all costs, with heavier reliance on junk food a la carte sales and «carnival food» menus.
You want to
see what protein deficiency looks like, go to parts of Africa and look at the
starving children with descended stomachs..
When we
see the dreadful famines in Africa, it is the pictures of the
starving children that persuade us to donate; when we
see people suffering through illnesses, it is the images of sick
children that call us to action; and, when we
see the tragic stories on the news, it is those that involve
children, such as the Dunblane massacre, that fill us with greatest sadness and most anger.
Ultimately the greatest disincentive is for mothers and fathers to have to
see their own
childrens lives wasted because they lack any opportunity to better themselves - the problem with this «do nothing» approach is that by the time people realize that another baby doesn't just mean one
starving child but two or three it may be to late.
Surely you have
seen Willis» self - congratulatory posts where he is working to «save» the
children who will
starve and freeze to death if this «realists,» who are indifferent to the plight of those
children, are allowed to get their way.