I have lived in two countries so far. India and Nepal. Both struggle to protect the lives of all their citizens. Have been lived in these two countries and studying about them brought me closer to the fact that most human lives are destroyed due to starvation and diseases in most regions more than age and other factors.
I am from a country that is growing as well as being destroyed both at the same time. During the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic, one thing that I realized was that the number of deaths taking place per year before the pandemic was not less than what it is during the pandemic.
Every year people who die of hunger and starvation or health are no less than these, but even after so many deaths happening each year, we noticed this pandemic more and took more precautions for this! “Why is this pandemic is getting more WORLDWIDE attention than the core problems for this pandemic?”
In 2015, I and my family shifted to Nepal from India at the end of March. It was not even one month that we shifted and Nepal was hit by a massive earthquake. There was a major shortage of food, housing, clothing, sanitation, and other basic needs. Houses were crushed and people got buried under them without approaching death. Families got separated, parents lost infants, and the entire village stayed together but without shelter.
Many public and private organizations and individuals with or without the support of NGOs were devoted to make the country back to normal and help helpless people. Being part of one of those groups who served them, while providing relief materials (food and clothing mostly), I realized how people appreciate basic needs when they don’t have it. People not only died due to the natural disaster but also due to the lack of willingness to live and being helpless was another factor. Food could be shared but not health! Pregnant women lived in conditions worse than what could be thought, the elderly lived without will and children had no back.
Like it is said, ‘Nothing is greater than the fear of losing your dear ones’. During the crisis when I got to know about the lives of millions of people, not only in Nepal but worldwide. We served people with their needs and they, irrespective of their status they took it as a breath to their lives. That less than 2-minute natural calamity made me realize the importance of food and of being in good health. Sometimes mental health problems are greater than physical disabilities. I dedicate and deliver the pain of billions and billions of such lives to ALL OF US.
Most of us, today are getting what we deserve through our births. But that doesn’t mean it is someone’s fault if they are born to a parent who is not able to provide them a better quality of life, neither do I blame the parents, but we should blame ourselves and capable people, of not doing what they can, what they should and what they aren’t. Whenever blessed with the opportunity to gift happiness to somebody, just grab it. This is what is my dream to make OUR world come together into a better place to survive in atleast.
One help can be a helping hand for you and for millions more. Every life is dependent most sensitively on body health, and no health can improve without removing the root cause of it. starvation. When we are not hungry we are able to think and analyze, when we do that our mental health improves, then our ability improves, when ability improves, productivity improves and when productivity comes home, LIFE BECOMES WORTH LIVING. Let us make ONLY ONE effort to save UNCOUNTABLE number of lives. – Harshita Jain