In 2024, there are still children worldwide hoping to receive the simplest gifts – Food,clean water, and education.

Approximately 45 million young children across the globe sleep every night without having even one meal a day. Worldwide, hunger and malnutrition contribute to around 45% of deaths in children under 5 years of age claiming the lives of over 3 million children every year. A child with no food or the right nutrition, suffers greatly and ultimately dies even before seeing or understanding this beautiful planet earth.

What motivated me?

Goes back to the early childhood being poor, striving to eat and to skip meals but slept in hope of a slightly better tomorrow, searching and waiting to get the most basic need of a child which were a luxury to most other children of same age. And as time passed by and came 19, life was slightly better, standing on both legs, while friends busy deciding whether to eat pizza or pasta, or choose between soup or salad, Life again presented with a choice whether to eat or take the bus back home, choosing the latter with great sadness but again with a smile and being hopeful that one day all this shall change.

Having spent countless days and sleepless nights, barely managing one meal a day for most days, breakfast was a fancy word, never heard of and till to this day, never got used to. Yet again, with a smile and a longing hope that one day, things will be a little better, i went to bed even though with a stomach empty but with a heart that was full of hopes and dreams to come true.