Starved for attention...

Starved for attention- The times center June 1,2010

That evening Beks & I went to a panel discussion on the epidemic of malnutrition and some of the issues surrounding that. There were some folks who stated many numbers (190 million kids) and the state of the nations that were represented (India, Western Africa & even the great ole' USA). The reality of having children go to sleep hungry and it is a multi-generational epidemic is mind blowing. As in people are used to this..some of the scenes shown highlight the work women/ mothers do so their children have something (anything) to eat. And anything may not be as nutritionally fulfilling as it need be but this is what they do. The panel explained the sacrifices and daily grind families do to survive- many times on nothing substantial.
One of the phrases that caught me was accepted normalcy - that being hungry and having this consistent gnawing in your belly and generations of low birthweight children and the 'reality' of LIFE for the survival weight of the ones who do make it out of infancy is just accepted. It is not considered atrocious or ridiculous or downright asinine that with the millions and billions we spend daily on random foolishness is not getting funneled towards a resolution to this epedemic.
Something else to think about....