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Eric Herboso
Washington, DC
Webmaster of Share Our Strength (strength.org)
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Eric commented on the article |Alison:
Philosophically, I agree with you. Distance is not a relevant difference when it comes to morality. If hunger occurs anywhere, then it must be stopped; thinking the United States is more important is a short-sighted and provincial idea, & cannot really be justified.
However, I still maintain that ending child hunger in America is an important priority. Like it or not, ending worldwide hunger just isn't easily accomplished. Many countries lack even the infrastructure necessary to effectively send food from one place to the next.
In order to raise the money needed to deal with global issues of poverty, we need a success story. Most people aren't willing to donate what is so desperately needed without having proof that their money is making a difference. And hunger is one of those issues that continuously seems to need more money.
If we can just make a high profile success, something on the order of permanently ending child hunger in America, then the world will HAVE to take notice. Imagine the funds we could raise if we ran commercials pointing out how our methods ended hunger domestically, and now we needed to do the same for all of humanity.
Domestic child hunger is honestly avhieveable within a decade. Where else can we find an accomplishable goal that is such a big deal? If we can focus on doing this, then we really can not only end child hunger in America by 2015, but also raise the funds necessary to work on ending poverty worldwide. We NEED this success story. We really do. -
Eric commented on the article |
Thanks so much for linking out to my idea to end child hunger in America. It truly is a reachable goal.
It is unfortunate that solving poverty is so very complex. Ending poverty will take huge changes to the system that are not only unproven, but are not even really testable. But the symptoms of poverty CAN be changed. Ending child hunger may not be so lofty a goal as ending poverty, but it is a REACHABLE goal.
If we take the proven scalable solutions outlined by Share Our Strength, we really can end domestic child hunger wthin the next decade. And just imagine what that would mean: we could then use that success in a worldwide PR campaign to then end child hunger across the world. If we commit to a truly reachable yet extremely important goal, we can ride the coattails of that success and fix innumerably more problems later on down the road.
Please vote at http://www.change.org/ideas/view/end_childhood_hunger_in_america and together we can show President-elect Obama where our nation's priorities truly should be.
