To focus on how many starving children there are in the world is to get confronted with great sadness. There are so many children dying from starvation around the world that it is hard to really get a hold of the magnitude. Try to see this figure in some comparable way. There are about 16,000 children dying every day of the year from starvation! I want to help you feel a little bit of what that means.
First, if your children or grandchildren still in the younger ages, think about even one of them dying. I have some close friends that had five children. Their fourth child, a son named Mark, had a disease that took his life at seven-and-a-half years old. That pain was unimaginable for me, but great agony for them. They still live with the loss of that great boy.
Second, think about the number of students enrolled at a college near you. They aren't young children, but help us see the picture. My youngest son attends a college where there are 53,000 students. If 16,000 of those students died each day, it would only take three-and-a-half days to wipe out the entire college. That is less than a week and one of them would be my son, my adult boy, gone!
Mothers, we know how much you love your children. We know that you have mother's hearts toward all children. We know many of you have ongoing contact with children in your vocation. To all ladies, we know how naturally tender you can be with a child with whom you come into contact.
Let me challenge you to look at what you can do for world hunger and starving children. They might have women that love them, but they still cannot provide them with enough food, just basic life.
Let's go feed some babies, Joe H.
