Are you rich enough to reach an elder in severe hunger?
In Nigeria, the effect of the global economic downturn is felt more harshly by millions of our poor, vulnerable elders and widows who have been pushed into extreme poverty translating to empty stomachs. Food hunger severely impact on their health as their weak, malnourished bodies become susceptible to all manners of diseases. The palpable hunger in the land is deepening and frightening. Without timely help from those with the milk of human kindness in their heart, these hapless, hungry widows and elders whose lives depended on those milk may die not out of natural causes but of hunger and hunger-induced illnesses.
As prices of foodstuffs, drugs, clothing and medicare soars in the local market, their hope to see yet another day is gravely tied to our and your willingness to care, to be rich enough to reach them at these hours of need.
In these times of economic crisis, it is our poor, elderly folks that bore the greatest burden of our collective neglect. Poor, vulnerable elderly men and women are daily facing the deep, ruthless battle – the battle to feed, clothe and live for yet another day. Their survival has become a game of chance as their weak and tiring bodies are daily subjected to doses of excruciating hunger. Some are not even lucky enough to have decent shelters, in tatter clothes they are forced to wander about begging for daily food to keep their body and soul.
