Hunger Project

When you order your meal, do you order a lot of foods that you like? Or you just eat enough for your daily routine? While we are having our meals, there are 10,000 people dying everyday due to hunger and malnutrition.

This story touches my heart when I view it. It was produced in year 2005 for a short film festival in 2006. Though this is an old production, I hope to spread this short touching film to everyone I know.

Chicken A-La-Carte Short film

Again, we are looking into the world poverty issue. Most of us, especially those whom can access Internet are consider lucky, and does not belong to the group who need to survive with left over food.

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Why food is not affordable to those people? According to The Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa, the food cost for a family per month ranges from US$64 – US$ 120, depending on location.

How can we help?
1. Don’t waste food, order just enough to fill our stomach. When we buy the food that we are not going to finish eating, or just eat little but order a lot, we are somehow encouraging inflation. The inflation of food makes the situation in Africa worst due to rich country can afford to buy those foods.
2. Educate our friends and family about the saving food. Share the above short film with our friends and family. Spread this information, and make more people realized how fortunate we are. Appreciate what we have now.
3. Participate in your local World Vision’s program, such as 30-Hour Famine in Malaysia or similar in your location.
4. Visit the website of those foundations, click on the sponsors ads that is pay per click. The foundation will be able to generate income from this simple generous action.
5. Donate to various foundations to help those who need our help. Contribute even just a small amount will help them survive.
a. The Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa
b. United Nation Foundation
c. World Vision (International)
d. World Vision (Malaysia)
e. The Hunger Site

Lastly, I would like to pay my salute to Ferdinand Dimadura for creating the above marvelous short film to share with us. May all being be well, healthy, and happy without suffer, ill, and pain.

Election is coming

My Chinese Clan Association's State level Election and National level's election is coming soon. Both will be in June. For the youth NGO that I belong to, a local election is in August or September and the National Level is in October. In total, this year there are 4 elections for me to go through. Among all, the youth NGO's area Peninsula's Executive Vice President election is the most interesting one. I can foresee another tough fight in this position again in October.

To me, election is time we decide whether the board of directors perform up to their Key Performance Index or not. If they do not perform, it is always up to us to change the leadership. However, the youth NGO that I belongs to has a different system. The system's purpose is to train more young leaders, and hence the president has to change every year. Everyone in the youth NGO, has only 1 lifetime chance to become a president.

Having been served as President in year 2008, I experienced the limelight given as a President. Privilege given as a president of a club is so much so that a normal person will not be able to resist.

As there are people who wants to fight for attention, and there are people who wants to stay to work and benefit the association and the community. I always wanted to ask those who wants to be nominated, are they willing to serve and not ask for return?