W4: My Hero Fights Hunger

 "My Hero Fights Hunger"

 

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Mr. Tony Harvest, a trillionaire and also a philanthropist who owns a non-profit organization called "Food For People", in short, it is called FFP.  A short background of him was that he was once a poor boy who has nothing to eat and was always saved by a random stranger who fed him till he could finally get education and his goal is to pass on what the stranger did for him back then to everybody around the world that is facing hunger. When he got rich from a successful business deal, there was where he created the organization and his goal is zero hunger

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His plan in the organization is to own a land that is a size of an island, and plan to create a large farms with factories to produce crops and livestock with advanced technology that can fastened the process of the products. After producing sufficient amount of food for the month, he will always sent out the food to countries around the world that is facing world hunger. He delivers the food by air-dropping from his jets around the world. He was also planning to expand his facilities to other countries that faces hunger. Before that, he did a research on the countries that suffered from hunger. According to Swargiary (2024), he mentioned that there are 44 countries that are facing alarming or serious levels of hunger. Interestingly, nations like Madagascar, Chad and the Central African Republic are among the worst in reducing hunger. There are also Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Haiti, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Chad, Niger and even more countries that are facing hunger issues. There are findings that there are challenges to help provide food to countries that is in need. One of them are that food aid in Yemen was frequently pillaged or appropriated by warring factions, according to an empirical field research, argues that cash-based solutions, such as vouchers or unconditional transfers, are more secure and sufficient (Elayah et al., 2022). 

Therefore, after acknowledging about this challenge, he visited Yemen to see the location with his own eyes. Upon his arrival, he also brought the monthly supply of food he produced to hand out to the people with his team. As he landed and wandered around the town, he realized that the place is full of dessert. It was dry, dusty landscapes and sand-colored buildings. The roads were broken and full of potholes, some buildings were destroyed from war back then. There were many people starving from hunger. It was a saddening sight for Mr. Harvest. With the heat and bad weather with many bad environment, it is impossible to expand his facilities in this country. All he could do is to only send food monthly. Just when he and his team were handing food, he was raided and pillaged by raiders. Luckily, everyone was fine and it was shocking that not a single left of food was left behind for the village. It was a horrible sight to be seen. 

After the accident, he kept wondering and thinking, how could he overcome this challenge and there was nothing to overcome it but to just keep on sending air drops of food supplies to the country, praying that the villagers can get as many food as they can. He made a promised with the person in charge of the towns in Yemen and other countries that maybe suffering from the same issues that he will come check out the situation and consult with the locals on how he could improve as that was Mr. Harvest's dream and goal: to dissolve world hunger.

His message to the world is very simple as he just wished that there are supporters or kind people that can help any poor people suffering from hunger. Giving food to people is a kind act. Also, to those privilege families that have food, Mr. Harvest wished they will never waste any food as there are people suffering from hunger on the other side of the world. As the saying goes, "Pass on to the next person". You might be helping the generations of generations in the future with just a tiny help. 

Reference List:

Swargiary, K. (2024, August). An analysis of global hunger and malnutrition (2024) [Research report]. ResearchGate. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.10028.48003/1

Elayah, M., Gaber, Q., & Fenttiman, M. (2022). From food to cash assistance: rethinking humanitarian aid in Yemen. Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41018-022-00119-w