Essay: Save People, Save Mother Earth
Save People, Save Mother Earth
By Bin Nur Asi Magangcong
Every day, I wake up like money is all I ever need. I am currently finishing my course, Bachelor of Secondary Education in one of the prestigious universities in the Philippines, aside from that, I'm a part-time worker as well as a house caretaker. I have to wake up early--day-to-day; to sweep floors, mop tiles and collect garbage in the house I am doing part-time on. I guess I'm tired—tired of being poor maybe? but I need to graduate. Help my mother achieve her dream shop, and siblings to finish school. I cannot give up. Even the thought of having a future family? They will suffer if I don’t work hard today. I am hungry. My stomach crumbles and because of it my head hurts. But the worms, rats and cockroaches on the garbage I’m about throw out are in the verge of satiety. Cakes, chocolates and crackers as well as juice and milk? They have everything. I wonder how many people in the world watch worms, rats and cockroaches eat while they starve? People throw these food because they’ve eaten enough and satisfied their stomachs. Thoughtlessly, even for a single moment, that billions of people in the world starve because they have nothing to eat, 1.3 billion people live in extreme poverty and 22, 000 children die each day because of it. If that money was not only spent to buy food to expire and was given to a children donation box. It could have fed one to ten children or even more. Imagine that if those excess food you’ve thrown had been eaten by street children? Homeless? beggars? You could have save lives.
Every time we consume we make waste. Every food that we buy we make trash. Trash that destroys mother earth; plastics and cellophane; bottles and rubbers. Can't we buy things exactly enough for our own consumption? We could have help lessening the deterioration of the earth and we can also save money!
What can you do if you are very rich and there’s a lot of money to waste? Help needy people. Do you have lot of food to waste? So lot that it wouldn’t even fit your wallet? Your fridge? Or your clothes in your cabinet? What can you do?
There are so many things you can do so that your cakes, chocolates and crackers as well as juice and milk don’t go to waste. Go to orphanages or specific organizations that work to contest poverty and give donations like groceries and old belongings. There are so many poor people out there who freezes and longs for your clothes. Give it to them. Fund-raise and be a volunteer. Hold programs like feeding programs or build a store that sell low price foods in your community or in squatter areas. Help people, avoid discrimination and choose Eco-friendly products.
Look at yourself and ask, “Have I ever feed someone in my whole life?” and if you haven’t, do it. Feed someone. If billions of rich people will feed billions of poor people it would have been fair. A lot of people suffer from poverty not only because of money but because of lack of education, social inequality, natural disasters, war, history and most of all because of hunger. Hunger traps them in poverty and we cannot blame them for that. We cannot say that they didn’t work hard to reach the state you are standing now. Can't I be an example? I’ve been working hard and I still don’t get rich. Getting rich is not easy and not all people are able to do it.
I’m not telling you or anyone to stop spending money and never buy food in plastic. Try to save money. Don’t mind people if they say you are thrifty. Purchase exact food to satisfy your hunger and not your extravagant life. If you’ve got a lot of money that you wouldn’t even feel they’re wasted? Donate them. You will not only be feeding people, you will be saving lives. Don’t let your greatest fear and enemies; like worms, rats and cockroaches enjoy your food while little cute children out there die because of hunger. Stop relying on the government to alleviate poverty. Start it. Save money, save people and save mother earth.
Reference: https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-global-poverty
By Bin Nur Asi Magangcong
Every day, I wake up like money is all I ever need. I am currently finishing my course, Bachelor of Secondary Education in one of the prestigious universities in the Philippines, aside from that, I'm a part-time worker as well as a house caretaker. I have to wake up early--day-to-day; to sweep floors, mop tiles and collect garbage in the house I am doing part-time on. I guess I'm tired—tired of being poor maybe? but I need to graduate. Help my mother achieve her dream shop, and siblings to finish school. I cannot give up. Even the thought of having a future family? They will suffer if I don’t work hard today. I am hungry. My stomach crumbles and because of it my head hurts. But the worms, rats and cockroaches on the garbage I’m about throw out are in the verge of satiety. Cakes, chocolates and crackers as well as juice and milk? They have everything. I wonder how many people in the world watch worms, rats and cockroaches eat while they starve? People throw these food because they’ve eaten enough and satisfied their stomachs. Thoughtlessly, even for a single moment, that billions of people in the world starve because they have nothing to eat, 1.3 billion people live in extreme poverty and 22, 000 children die each day because of it. If that money was not only spent to buy food to expire and was given to a children donation box. It could have fed one to ten children or even more. Imagine that if those excess food you’ve thrown had been eaten by street children? Homeless? beggars? You could have save lives.
Every time we consume we make waste. Every food that we buy we make trash. Trash that destroys mother earth; plastics and cellophane; bottles and rubbers. Can't we buy things exactly enough for our own consumption? We could have help lessening the deterioration of the earth and we can also save money!
What can you do if you are very rich and there’s a lot of money to waste? Help needy people. Do you have lot of food to waste? So lot that it wouldn’t even fit your wallet? Your fridge? Or your clothes in your cabinet? What can you do?
There are so many things you can do so that your cakes, chocolates and crackers as well as juice and milk don’t go to waste. Go to orphanages or specific organizations that work to contest poverty and give donations like groceries and old belongings. There are so many poor people out there who freezes and longs for your clothes. Give it to them. Fund-raise and be a volunteer. Hold programs like feeding programs or build a store that sell low price foods in your community or in squatter areas. Help people, avoid discrimination and choose Eco-friendly products.
Look at yourself and ask, “Have I ever feed someone in my whole life?” and if you haven’t, do it. Feed someone. If billions of rich people will feed billions of poor people it would have been fair. A lot of people suffer from poverty not only because of money but because of lack of education, social inequality, natural disasters, war, history and most of all because of hunger. Hunger traps them in poverty and we cannot blame them for that. We cannot say that they didn’t work hard to reach the state you are standing now. Can't I be an example? I’ve been working hard and I still don’t get rich. Getting rich is not easy and not all people are able to do it.
I’m not telling you or anyone to stop spending money and never buy food in plastic. Try to save money. Don’t mind people if they say you are thrifty. Purchase exact food to satisfy your hunger and not your extravagant life. If you’ve got a lot of money that you wouldn’t even feel they’re wasted? Donate them. You will not only be feeding people, you will be saving lives. Don’t let your greatest fear and enemies; like worms, rats and cockroaches enjoy your food while little cute children out there die because of hunger. Stop relying on the government to alleviate poverty. Start it. Save money, save people and save mother earth.
Reference: https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-global-poverty
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