Why TGSLF Cares: World Hunger on the rise as millions at risk globally (UN Report Finds)
The Good Shepherd Love Foundation is very passionate about poverty alleviation and the drive to help reduce poverty and hunger. We seek to explain why we do care about the poor and vulnerable and why we try to do our bit within our might and capacity to make the world a better place.
A recent report by the UN confirms that over 820 million persons globally are still hungry thus making reaching the target of zero hunger by 2030 an “immense challenge.” Several people especially in Africa and even my beloved country Ghana have very little to eat. The victims of this situation are mostly women and children and the situation grows worse as population keeps on increasing.
Several vulnerable persons do not get the nutrition that they require in order to have a healthy living. Hunger remains prevalent and widespread. It is estimated that one (1) in seven (7) babies around the world are born with low birthweight and many of them being born to poor, malnourished adolescent mothers. This puts them at a high risk of poor human growth and development.
Many countries and communities of the world have not witnessed sustained growth that corresponds with the increasingly globalized and interconnected nature of world economies. Climate change and other related destructions to the natural environment is leading to “major shifts in the way food is being produced, distributed and consumed worldwide – and to new food security, nutrition and health challenges.”
Hunger is increasing where economic growth is lagging and there is income inequality all over. For these reasons and more, the Good Shepherd Love Foundation led by its Founder Reginald Nii Odoi pledges to contribute its quota through constant advocacy, awareness creation, outreaches, provision of material, physical and emotional needs and the like so as to ensure that these troubling trends are tackled with much urgency.
We really do care. We must foster pro-poor and inclusive structural transformation programs focusing on people and the planet whilst placing communities at the centre to reduce economic vulnerabilities and set ourselves on the track to ending hunger and all forms of malnutrition wherever we find ourselves.
These and more are the reasons why we really do care! We shall not relent!!
By Reginald Nii Odoi & The Good Shepherd Media Team, 2019.