As we know
that Sustainable Development Goals are efforts that established by United
Nation towards better future. That include reducing poverty and hunger as well
as one of the biggest global issues nowadays. Poverty and hunger is leading to
a disease known as malnutrition. According to Cambridge Dictionary,
malnutrition means physical weakness and bad health caused by having too little
food, or too little of the types of food necessary for good health. In facts,
malnutrition divided by three types which are undernutrition, micronutrient-related
malnutrition and obesity. Can you imagine that how sad to see people who are
facing poverty and hunger and don’t have any food to feed their children and
those kids end up having malnutrition? World Health Organization stated that “malnutrition
is a global problem where millions of people are suffering from
different form of malnutrition. Around one in ten children are born with low
birth weight and in South Asia, it is one in four and approximately 45% of
deaths among children under five are linked to undernutrition.” Not forget to
mention, those people facing poverty and hunger caused by effects of wars that
happen in their country, economics crisis and many more. Although we are living
in modern world where technologies have great influence in industries and our
life, but still there is so many people who are even cannot fulfill their basic
needs as a human like food, clean and drinkable water also house where they
could live in peaceful and sleeping safe and sound without worrying about cold and
heat. Therefore, we are here living in comfortable place, wasting food and
water while their struggling half of death to have those things that we have
been wasted. Which means we are not living in sustainable way because there are
a lot of people still struggling in order to keep alive as they live in poverty
and hunger. In conjunction with pandemic Covid-19, the problem getting even
worsen.
Before I
knew about Sustainable Development Goals, I don’t really pay attention to what
is actually happen surrounding me especially when it comes to global problems.
On top of that, there was one time, when I scrolled down some pages on my
Instagram, one of the pages named as MyFundAction. They are actually known as
Non-Governmental Organization(NGO) that actively supporting and helping those
who is in needed by accumulating donations and deliver it them. Some of them in
form of basic food donation especially to people who had less food to survive
during pandemic. They were sharing some of their videos where one of the team
from MyFundAction went to Sabah to deliver food to people there. I am totally
amazed their efforts to keep delivering the food though that time it was rain
and the village actually build on mangrove. Besides, now they are working on
giving food donation to people in Syria where the winter season will come soon.
Plus, they even planning to provide better place to stay during winter season,
if possible. I wish for them to keep being strong by mentally and physically in
order to help as many people as they can.
Seeing their
efforts really touched me and make me realized that sometimes I felt sad to see
how people easily wasted food everyday while in facts, if we give or donate the
money that was spent to buy those wasted foods to another people in needed, I
think the Sustainable Development Goals which are no poverty and zero hunger
are not something impossible to be achieved by 2030. For example, according to
report done by Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO), almost 1.3 billion tons
of food were thrown out globally. Just imagine how much we will get if we
accumulate the money that was spent on 1.3 billion tons of wasted food? Surely
millions of dollars. Let see on particular country food waste such as United
States. According to the United States Department of Agriculture which tracks
food loss, dairy products is the largest in food wasted which amount $91 billion
in a year. While in the website named as reliefweb stated that estimated cost
to end hunger is in range about $7 billion to $265 billion per year. Then, let
say if the cost to reduce poverty and hunger will take around $91 billion which
same as amount of money of wasted food for a year, I think we can reduce at least
20 to 30 percent of hunger for a year. So, in 5 years we actually can reduce
around 60 percent of poverty and hunger problem roughly all over the world and
that is not include the donations from people. In short, to end poverty and
hunger is not impossible but it is not going to be simply like that and will take
time because we also need to look other perspectives like economic crisis, society
awareness and so on. Yet all of these things are interrelated and affect one
another.
In conclusion,
after I knew about Sustainable Development and its goals. I guess more people
should know about it because we can work to better future together. There is no
one else live in this world could lead to us to have future that we want other
than humanity itself. Because we were given brain or Aql by Allah to think,
react and fulfill our obligation to Him as servant and Khalifah as well. In
Quran al-Karim, Surah Al- Isra verse 70, Allah said “ And we have honored the Children
of Adam. We carried them in the land and the sea, and We have given them as
sustenance of the permissible things, and We have made them to excel by an
appropriate excellence over most of those whom We have created…”
