Dear Editor:
In conjunction with their Fast For A World Harvest Campaign,
Oxfam America has just released a video called Hunger in a World of
Plenty.
Dear Editor:
In conjunction with their Fast For A World Harvest Campaign, Oxfam America has just released a video called Hunger in a World of Plenty. It succinctly explores the reasons for widespread poverty and hunger in our world, and reminds us that “it is a simple matter of chance that determines who will be born into poverty and live at risk of becoming one of the 17 people per minute who die from preventable sickness related to hunger.”
That’s about 25,000 people per day, and a disproportionate share are women and children, a truly staggering reality. Oxfam recognizes that “poverty comes from lack of knowledge, resources, and opportunity.
At its root, it exists because of inequities established and perpetuated by political and economic policies and structures.” This short film explores the the general causes of poverty – toil, burden and oppression and searches for sustainable solutions to global hunger.
One such long-term solution, that is relatively easy to implement by all of us, is our increasing support of the fair trade economic model.
I would like to invite anyone who shares a common concern for social justice to view this film on Thursday, July 15 at the Wize Owl Bookstore in Gilroy or at the Morgan Hill Public Library Community Room on Thursday, July 22. Both programs begin at 7 p.m. and last about an hour. Do you have an hour to spare? Please contact me at 234-6377 for more information and check the Oxfam Web site at www.oxfamamerica.org.
Mike Monroe, Gilroy
Submitted Wednesday, July 7 to ed****@****ic.com
