NO.
What are the issues that confront us in bringing an end to hunger and the worst aspects of poverty and what are we doing about them?
There is NO magic silver bullet that will end hunger.
Persistent hunger is directly related to conditions of poverty and the issues that keep both in place are complex and tenacious. Ending hunger is not simply a matter of feeding enough people.
So much has been said and written about strategies to attack poverty. The development experts at the World Bank are supposed to have been working all these years towards the reduction of global poverty.
So how do we solve poverty?
Education is the key.
In fact, teachers are critical in the attainment of our goals for education. Unfortunately, I heard that the teachers of today no longer taught the way excellent teachers of bygone days did a few decades ago.
Let us therefore invest in good quality teachers!
Let us pay our teachers well, very well, so that they will not even think of leaving their families behind just so they could earn more elsewhere doing chores other than what they were trained for.
Let us ensure that no family is going to be without a member who has finished tertiary education.
Let us make sure that all children are in school.
Let us have the political will to eliminate corruption in the education sector.
Mind you, I do not know how all these can be done, but if the priority of our development planning is good quality education, I am convinced we would not have to worry too much about many things…population management, corruption, violence against women, bigotry and all the other evils of our society. You agree?
On the lighter side, have you heard about a flashy Italian creation shown recently in an exhibit called “Group Therapy” at a modern art museum in Bolzano that has become the object of a complaint from a right-wing political party? The National Alliance Party called the creation of artists Eleonora Chiari and Sandra Goldschmied a “massacre of respect” - the creation being a patriotic toilet that flushes to the strains of the Italian national anthem! To pee or not to pee? Tell me the answer!
Let us invest heavily in education. But not for corruption in the education sector!
What are the issues that confront us in bringing an end to hunger and the worst aspects of poverty and what are we doing about them?
There is NO magic silver bullet that will end hunger.
Persistent hunger is directly related to conditions of poverty and the issues that keep both in place are complex and tenacious. Ending hunger is not simply a matter of feeding enough people.
So much has been said and written about strategies to attack poverty. The development experts at the World Bank are supposed to have been working all these years towards the reduction of global poverty.
So how do we solve poverty?
Education is the key.
In fact, teachers are critical in the attainment of our goals for education. Unfortunately, I heard that the teachers of today no longer taught the way excellent teachers of bygone days did a few decades ago.
Let us therefore invest in good quality teachers!
Let us pay our teachers well, very well, so that they will not even think of leaving their families behind just so they could earn more elsewhere doing chores other than what they were trained for.
Let us ensure that no family is going to be without a member who has finished tertiary education.
Let us make sure that all children are in school.
Let us have the political will to eliminate corruption in the education sector.
Mind you, I do not know how all these can be done, but if the priority of our development planning is good quality education, I am convinced we would not have to worry too much about many things…population management, corruption, violence against women, bigotry and all the other evils of our society. You agree?
On the lighter side, have you heard about a flashy Italian creation shown recently in an exhibit called “Group Therapy” at a modern art museum in Bolzano that has become the object of a complaint from a right-wing political party? The National Alliance Party called the creation of artists Eleonora Chiari and Sandra Goldschmied a “massacre of respect” - the creation being a patriotic toilet that flushes to the strains of the Italian national anthem! To pee or not to pee? Tell me the answer!
Let us invest heavily in education. But not for corruption in the education sector!
People can take care of themselves. Sometimes they need a little help to get started.
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