Editorial July 2, 1979 Issue

Help for hungry children

Naomi Price

"My family won't eat them if they're broken," explained the young mother in the elevator. She was holding a packet of potato chips very carefully, so it would not be crushed. The boy and girl standing with her nodded their heads in agreement.

But another passenger in the elevator was sad. She wished these young people and their mother could know of the report she'd just been reading about starving children in a particular third-world country. Those youngsters—thousands of them—have no families to love them, no place to live, hardly any clothes, no food except what they can scrounge in the back alleys. How grateful they would be even for a few crumbs.

Throughout the world, especially in the developing countries of Asia, Africa, and South America, there are known to be millions of hungry children. What can be done to help them? It is not very practical for more fortunate people to send them packets of potato chips or any other food they may buy for themselves at the supermarket. Of course money could be sent to one of the welfare organizations that take care of people in need. That would help to provide something for a child to eat for a day, a month, or a year, according to the size of the donation. But whatever individuals send seems so little among so many, and, in any case, material food is not all that people require. They need to feel love and joy, peace, comfort, and fulfillment, and to have the opportunity to bless other people by expressing these qualities of God. Without these spiritual feelings—even if they have plenty of food to eat—they will feel empty and unhappy.

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