Pledge not to waste the food - A guest post by Vignesh

Pledge not to waste the food

A common man eats food thrice a day. Drinks tea, coffee, juices and snacks. This cycle goes for 5 working days and the weekends treat begins for him right from Friday or Saturday night. In this same world, there are some other people residing with empty stomach and gets food randomly like how a common man gets a treat randomly and  the most painful part of the above statement occurs when these are kids, who has a small stomach, liver, lungs, body which starves to get grow up. It is very known fact that the rich man's shampoo contains more fruits than a poor kid’s lifetime food. In no way the kid is responsible for their poverty and their hunger. They might have never born in this world if they knew that the consequences of hunger which they are going to face once they land to the earth.

May be it is not a good habit to donate money to the kids who beg probably their parents might not use it in a proper way and would suggest them to beg for more. But it is fair if these kids are given a proper food at-least the left overs in big party or marriage events. If you can call the child care and tell them that you have left over food in a function then there are representatives who can collect it at your door steps. Everyone is aware of the big deals in online and knows for sure that they would deliver it at the door step but not all are aware about the above quoted point.

The increase in the number of restaurants in the city makes people happy this decade developed a habit of eating at the restaurants in a daily basis which was not the case years ago. We can see people who would love to taste each restaurants food and sometimes they even rate them. And people enjoy the ambiance of the restaurants. It is said that "If everyone gives a thread then the needy will have a shirt".

If people can sponsor child for their food at-least on the day they party, then it is for sure that every day at-least most of the hungry child gets fed and more of them during the weekends. We all can pledge not to waste the food. At-least give the left overs to someone who is really in need of it. And these children when they grow up will definitely not waste any food because they knew the value of it.

This is a guest post by Vignesh Kumar, Pushparaj and is post is written as a part of “Blog to Feed a Child” organized by BlogAdda.

I am going to #BlogToFeedAChild with Akshaya Patra and BlogAdda.

Value of Food

Value of Food 

Me, my friends Vineetha and Induprabha went to “Thiruvannamalai” temple in Tamil Nadu. It was believed that when a person circumambulate the mountain on a full moon day their wish will be fulfilled. We all decided to fast and circumambulate the mountain which is approximately 16 KM. Vineetha prayer was to get a very good husband. Induprabha was in love with a guy for almost 8 years and she is badly fighting for her parents to approve her marriage. Her prayers was for her parent’s approval for her marriage with her lover.

After 4 hours of walk, we started feeling very tired and weak. We felt some one pinching the stomach. It stared to rumble and realized that we all damn hungry. It started to pain and experienced head ache and vomiting sensation. With god's grace we reached the temple, but found a big queue. We could clearly sense that it will take minimum 2 hours for the queues to move out. Neither we could come out or move further. We got struck between the queues. We all wanted something to eat at that moment. But, didn't had any other option other than starving. The queues moved very slowly, we finished Dharshan after few hours and then we had food. It tasted like heaven.

At that point of time, I realized the value of hungry. All our problems of being single, not getting married, for not being in relationship vanished. We in-fact changed our profile picture to the below.

 So, hungry makes a man weird. We must have all realised atlest in one point of time, the pain of not getting food when hungry.er th Imagine, how many people are starving every day and A child dies every 5 second as a result of hunger.

How can we eliminate class room hunger?

1. Childers beg, lie or steal due to hunger. If you find a child showing their tiny hands towards you or knocking your car window shield for money just don’t neglect. Call 1098 and inform them. They take them, offer education, food and stay. 
2. Teach the kids about their rights. 
3. Offer them a quality education, which will help them survive in future. 
4. Creating more employment opportunity in rural areas, so that parents have enough money to offer good food for their kids. 
5. Reduce Population. Improve the awareness of family planning and encourage 2 kids per family. 
6. Severe action against owner for employing child, when they appoint kids for work. 

How can we contribute to eliminate hunger?
As an individual let’s try to follow this:

1. Dont waste food. Wasting 1/4 idly a day may not be a big deal. But wasting everyday 1/4 amount of food affects a lot. It is proved that one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption is wasted. Its okay to pack to left overs in restaurants and at least give it to a dog, instead of throwing it into dust bin
2. Instead of spending thousands in parties and pubs, spend those money for kids food. Donate those money to charity for offering lunch/breakfast for them. At least during your special occasions
3. Order only what you want, and cook only what you need.