This morning I watched a clip of Emma Watson's HeForShe campaign speech and it got me thinking about equality but not just between males and females. Why is that some people on earth have much better access to things in life than others? How is this fair? Why aren't the more powerful countries (USA/UK etc.) doing more about this to eradicate inequality around the world?
Our society is one which takes the majority of things for granted yet we still complain:
We complain that our mum or dad hasn't cooked us our favourite meal whilst at the same time the UN estimates over 800 million people are currently starving and suffering from chronic undernourishment.
We complain about the weather and that it's rained all day. Yet many countries are so hot that they can't even grow crops. Or its raining so much that everything they have worked for is flooded.
We complain about school, how much work we have, how we dislike our teachers. But just think of all those children who would die to be able to go to a school like ours. Think of all those children who don't have the education or qualifications to set them up for life.
We complain about having a cold, or there being a long wait at the doctors. But what about all those children currently dying of AIDS, malnutrition, malaria etc. Their chances of survival are tiny and everything would have been different if they had just been brought up in a different area of the world.
I know that is it an absolutely mammoth goal to abolish world hunger and poverty but if I had just one wish it would be for equality across the world. I know everyone is guilty of taking things for granted but if everyone just started to appreciate what they had more then the world would become a much better place.
Would absolutely love to hear your views on this so please get in touch!
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