The Silent Cry of Hunger
Posted On: January 21 2008
The world’s hungry live in quiet desperation. In many instances, malnourished children do not have the strength to plead for help, and the working poor find it difficult to beg for a handout. In both cases, hope has almost vanished. They silently plead for someone to have mercy, to peer into their worn faces, to read the desperation in their eyes, and to restore their hope with a bag of groceries or a bowl of rice.
But too often no one is there to extend the hand of compassion to people surviving in refugee camps or children living below the poverty level in both rural and urban America. As a result, thousands die each day from hunger-related causes. They live and die––quietly.
Thus one of the keys to responding to the cries of the poor is to mobilize more workers. Each year, Convoy of Hope mobilizes 25,000 workers to extend a helping hand to hurting people. Together we must go where the need is so we can hear their cries and then respond in a tangible way.
We’ve discovered firsthand that millions of people are one helping hand away from finding new life. One meal, one blanket, one jar of vitamins can make all the difference.