FAMINE 30 2009

Famine 30 at Dewan Mutiara, sentul. Was quite a good memory, I think. Gone through 30 hours without solid food and new friends. Helping the children that living poverty at the same time, it was a meaningful camp. This is the 2nd time I went to this camp. For a great eater like me, starve for 30hours isn't that easy. But I still go for it? When I ask the other to go, the most I heard was 'chisin, can't eat?!' But they don't know the really meaning behind. There are 1billion people in the world that living less than 1USD a day, can you ever imagine how their life is? Maybe you will think that a person can't help any much, but when there are million people doing this, it is a great force and power that can help lots of people. The theme for this year was 'food crisis', the amount of people that suffering in poverty raised 10million in year 2008, from 90million to 1billion. What causes this? The food crisis, in year 2008, although the production of corn has increased by 15%, but it doesn't help to save the people suffering poverty, but worse. In Europe and US, they have invent biofuel that made from corn, 30% of the corn from worldwide has been used to manufacture biofuel. A full tank of biofuel needs 248kg to produce, that amount could support family of 5 for 1 year. Within world 2008 and 2009, the percentage of rich people has increased, that's a good thing. BUT, when rich people increase, they consume more food, espeacially meat. What do the animals eat? Grains, corns and some other foods, the guys with business brain, rather to raise animals for the rich one but not to sell to the needed 1. This causes the prices rocketted high up and the poor couldn't afford the raising price.When this occur, there are more people will drop into pit without foods. There are few million children died every year, because food crisis, HIV, lack of proper treatment and alot more. Why must children have to suffer these? They don't deserve it. What do WORLD VISION do were, they help them so that they can live in a better condition. World Vision is not like the other charity group that just giving in money support, but they help in ways so that they will get long term benefits. To rescue those living poverty, world vision teach them to plant but not to give them only. In chinese, there is 1 idiom saying that

TEACH THEM HOW TO FISH, NOT GIVE THEM THE FISH.
So, in the year 1 or 2, they would be able to support them self by farming and harvesting. In a better condition, they can give their children a better day. Other than this, world vision taught the farmers that lack of harvesting knowledge how to plant so that they can doubled the crops gained. At the same time, they provide tools and seeds that with better genes. Children living poverty, they can't get proper education and they have to work at the age 7-9, children in the south africa most of them inherited HIV from their parents, children should have deserve better life. To help the children, world vision came out with an idea is that by donating RM50 each month. You can send a kid to school, and provide them food so that they can live healthier and they don't have to work. The purpose im writing this because, the poor and the children in the world need your help, I remember 张惠妹 said '有多余的钱去奢侈，不如帮助有需要的人' in the famine 30 countdown. You just need to buy less a shirt each month and support a life of a child, isn't that good?
www.worldvision.org.my
If you understood what I've said, click the link above. You can make a difference. For the world, for the future.
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See I brother anot? Put so many pictures you with Khai Wen. Oh, she is Khai wen. She's only 14 and she's sweet.

Here comes wai san. She's as cute and pretty as usual. Don't know why, I'll never take a nice photo with her.
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There is a reason why i support famine 30 every year. Maybe the RM80 is not that much, but 'sikit-sikit jadi bukit', 1 of us can't help much. But when 10000 people support this, we can actually save a few villages.
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-Dennis
*pray for the world*