In one part of the world, people clear out their refrigerators every week, throwing out vegetables, meat, fish and more that they didn’t eat before the sell by date.
In another part of the world, families fill their bellies with low-nutritive meals or go hungry.
On my trip with ONE to Ethiopia we met families coping with hunger first-hand. The people are beautiful, but cultivating nourishing crops and preparing them correctly is an ongoing project
The food issues affecting the world are frequently in the news but the causes and effects seem disparate, hard to grasp and even harder to solve.
The world produces enough food for everyone, yet hunger kills more than 200 children every hour.
Now a coalition of charities has banded together and is spearheading a campaign to address underlying causes of hunger, with an unprecendented social media side that we can all take part in to make a difference.
This year the UK has the presidency of the G8. We need to make enough noise so that David Cameron will be compelled to use his position to take a lead on hunger. The PM has called a “special event” on hunger the day before the G8 – this is our opportunity.
So, how much time do you have to help end hunger?
30 seconds?
Sign up to the petition urging leaders to take action and fulfill their aid pledges
2 minutes?
Follow on Twitter @savechildrenuk, @ONEcampaignUK as well as bloggers who are leading the charge: @helloitsgemma @nixdminx @dorkymum, @rosiescribble, @thinlyspread and @BritMums and me on @JHowze.
And use this hashtag: #IF
Follow on Facebook: www.facebook.com/savechildrenUK
15 minutes?
Help us tell a million that there is enough food for everyone. If we want to generate so much noise that our leaders have no choice but to act. Not enough people know that the world produces enough food for everyone.
How many people can you tell?
–> Share the Tell a Million video on Facebook/Twitter using the #tellamillion hashtag
–> Write a blog post or vlog about it. You can find loads of resources here www.savethechildren.org.uk/if/social-media-kit.
Join us in helping end world hunger. Our voices get the notice of politicians. The politicians act. That’s what we’re working toward.
Read more:
Mummy from the Heart: Bloggers – IF we make noise, things will change
Hello, It’s Gemma: One Small Thing
NixdMinx: 100 charities join forces to solve the hunger issue
Thinly Spread: Enough Food for Everyone IF
Jennifer’s #ONEMums trip to Ethiopia with ONE
About Jennifer Howze
Jennifer Howze is the co-founder of BritMums. She blogs about travel, family and London life at Jenography.net. Previously, she wrote the Alpha Mummy blog at The Times and as a journalist has contributed to The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Wall Street Journal, Travel & Leisure, Budget Travel, CNN.com, Allure, SELF and Premiere, among others. She won The Maggie Award from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America for a health article in Seventeen magazine.
Great to see this up so quick Jen, we all need to be behind this and can make this happen.
Mich x
Let’s hope we can make a change – http://www.mummybebeautiful.com/2013/01/enough-food-for-everyone.html
Nice one Jen, well put, it looks like this has got a load of traction which is great and I especially love the social media pack which they’ve created for this. Let’s hope everyone keeps talking and the talk turns into action.
Nice post. I’m also supporting the campaign and have written about it here: http://www.chezmummy.com/2013/01/one-big-chance-to-fight-world-hunger.html
let’s hope we can make a difference! I’ve blogged about this here: http://motheringmushroom.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/fighting-world-hunger-together-we-can-do-it-if/ and will reblog on my other blog – http://www.honestspeaks.wordpress.com too.
Thanks for sharing this story, it’s bloggers like you who showed their support and helped to spread the word about the cause. The IF Campaign achieved one of it’s major aims, which was to influence George Osborne to keep the committment of 0.7% aid from the UK’s national budget, but there is still work to be done. If you want to lend your voice to the campaign, you can still do so here: http://www.worldvision.org.uk/get-involved/campaigning/enough-food-for-everyone-if/ or with one of the other charities in the coalition.