It is New Year’s Eve.. The guests will leave soon and all that remains are the ones you live with and the
remains of bottles of cheer that need to be cleaned up and tossed. We all need
to clean up our act and what better time than in a new year. We will drink tonight and toast to those who died and to those who accomplished good things. We will toast to babies born and better wealth or
new gadgets we were able to afford for each other. I guess we just want more drinks. I want to
give credit to this great country of ours. America is always there to step up
to the plate and take action. We have been trying to enforce peace and taking
down the bad guys for 17 years now in the Middle Ease.
Now we are feeding the world. There
is no doubt that with war there is hunger. War is still everywhere. Hate
prevails over forgiveness and love. Tempers flare even within our own
households. It is the nature of the human beast within us. We should all be aware as Americans of the
good we do for the world. We have an organization called The World Food
Program. It is the emergency first responder to hunger anywhere on the globe.
The United Nations launched WFP in 1961 at the urging of the United
States. Today the United States pays the
biggest part and pays the bills as the World Food Program steps up to the plate
literally and feeds 80 Million people per year.
After war has destroyed cities
and homes the children still need to eat. In Syria it is the worst conditions
for families now. As it is the border of Syria and Jordan is total desert. Families
that have been bombed out of their homes and communities walk 300 miles to the
Jordan border looking for food for a life again with small children who die on
the journey. This is no Biblical story, this is now starting in 2015 and still continuing. More than a few million people have already crossed the border into Jordan so far during the five year civil war in Syria. They used to be office workers, shop keepers,
teachers. Now they share one occupation to save their families, their children
from starvation. The journey is 10 days of misery. Walking the desert is safer
than the bombing all around them at home what is left of their homes.
Everyday sometimes up to 100,000
people arrive at the border fleeing the madness in Syria. They arrive filthy
with matted hair from the sand winds. Dirty clothes, malnourished and very
thirsty. The World Food Program immediately gives the families food and water
and load the people into trucks that take them to refugee camps. There is room
for everyone on the trucks but the women load their children on the trucks
first just in case there is no room for them. Saving the children is their
priority over themselves. It is getting worse in Syria instead of better in
Syria even after five years of fighting. These trucks are their only hope now
for survival. The war started there against their Dictator now it is a war
against starvation. The Dictator says kneel to me or starve to death. What is
wrong with these men that are willing to lose a generation of children to
starvation?
The United States donates more
than 1/3 of the 4 Billion dollar annual budget. We supply
more than 3,000 trucks. 45 thousand metric tons of food are delivered every
month. Today the United States have fed 75 countries
plagued by war or weather. It has an air force, a navy
and an army of 14,000 people. We teach farming around the world and we get no
funding from the United Nations. We raise the entire budget from donations and
companies and governments and individuals. The Syrian problem is the greatest
one yet. There are 130,000 camps in the desert filled with people. Where there
was only desert there are supermarkets filled with choices. The families are
given vouchers where they choose what they want to eat and can cook their own
meals and live with dignity as a family again. Happy New Year to you too.
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