In a recent GNA feature, Hannah Asomaning says:
Imagine a world where there is no poverty, there is basic education for everybody, respect for human rights, equal rights and opportunities for men and women and all the goodies one can wish for.
There would be no crime, pain, hunger and anguish as seen in some parts of the world today. It would really be a pleasant place to live in.
The United Nations perhaps imagined these when it came up with the Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015.
Almost half-way through the timeframe, we are unfortunately nowhere near the envisioned results[…]
Africans need to be effectively involved and concerned about their own development by working hard to ensure that poverty eradication is achieved. There must also be promotion and respect for human rights and change of attitudes towards achieving the MDGs by 2015.
How can Western countries, such as the United States, help so-called third-world countries eliminate poverty and hunger? These Western countries have yet to eliminate it on their own soil! For example, 14 million children in the United States live in food insecure households. 1 in 8 United States citizens are officially poor, and many middle-class Americans struggle daily and live in debt.
To end poverty and hunger, all of us, the whole world, have to organize and do it for ourselves.