It is believed that America is the greatest country in the world. The place where you can make things happen and where great opportunities exists. Citizens of developing or under-developed countries assume that if you can just get into America, all your problems will be solved in a very short period of time. Well, as true as those could be, you will be shocked to discover it is not true after all.
Do you know that this same country has about 33 million people who do not know how or when they are going to get their next meals? Did you know that more than 8 million American citizens regularly go hungry? Or that 3.5 million American residents have no place to live? Or that by 2012, the homeless population is expected to double in size (These statistics were collected in 2008).
Well, that is just America – the expected ‘giant of the world’, where African residents run to for greener pastures. A country noted for opportunities and wealth. Think about the population of those classified above and imagine the statistics of an African country, say Nigeria or Uganda, I am sure you know what the figures would look like.
According to the world development indicators 2007, published by World Bank, more than 70% of Nigerian citizens live on less than a dollar (that’ s about 150 Naira in Nigerian currency) per day, and the situation has not gotten any better since then.
Roughly out of every five human beings on the Planet-Earth – that is, more than 840 million people – are malnourished. Upward of 153 million of them are children under the age of five. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, some 6 million children die each year as a result of hunger and malnutrition. Every day, some 40,000 children under the age of five die from hunger and preventable diseases. That is 24 children a minute. It is not much of a funny discovery, is it?
Fortunately, People are helping; Individuals, Organizations, Churches, Foundations, Estates and Co operations donate billions of dollars yearly to mitigate these problems and reduce the population of suffering people especially in Africa and Asia. Surprisingly, we still have suffering people. This means that the donations will never be enough.
The World owes you nothing, neither does it me, but you owe the world. Yes, you owe the world. God created you for a purpose. He designed you so that you will give back to the world. Get out of your comfort zone and start striving to give everything that comes your way the best. If you fail, the world has not failed in anything but being unable to produce a great achiever like you. You are celebrated as a success alone and not as a failure. The people who are celebrated today did not get to such positions by chance; they worked for it, dream about it and definitely saw it coming.
The summary of it all is this; the world needs your help. The world needs your quota. If you think your riches is enough for you, think again. Help those who need help around you. If you think there is no reward here on earth, my Bible makes me understand you have a reward in heaven. Strive to be great so that you can make this world a better place, if not for yourself, let it be for that child who might be the next to die in the next 10 seconds.
