WELCOME May 21, 2001 Issue

"What do I know about hunger?"

Bill Dawley

When I Was assigned to write the Welcome column for this issue on world hunger, I felt inadequate. "What do I know about hunger?" I thought. I grew up in a fairly middle-class family, with plenty to eat, even wasting food a lot of the time. Yes, I've traveled in developing countries, and seen poverty close up. But never the kind of grinding hunger that I've seen portrayed on the nightly news.

Then, as the Sentinel team planned this issue on hunger; I found a statistic that blew me away. It was this: Some 24,000 people around the world die from hunger each day! And 75 percent of those people are children under five. That woke me up to the responsibility we all have to do something about world hunger.

In this issue, the Sentinel has asked two people familiar with the images of hunger in Africa to explain what they've been doing about world hunger. Charles Wattles talks about his experiences working for the International Rescue Committee in Sudan, and tells how he prayed about the almost insurmountable obstacles that country faces in dealing with hunger. Also, Bob and Betty Press relate their experiences in traveling for The Christian Science Monitor throughout Sudan and Somalia—and how those experiences impelled them to pray.

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