Musing On “Skip One Lunch, Save A Live”
Musing On ”Skip One Lunch, Save a Life”
So persuaded princess Anne for collecting donations, to save, aid people starving in Somalia and Ethiop. Meaning if you just skip one lunch (your lunch) and save the money, you could save someone starving there with the money. That’s a lofty thought and so simple for getting donations rather than with getting it through N.B. well organized “hurray-hurray” celebrations as “Live Aid“ through out the world and more successful perhaps, for suffering, starving people.
By skipping one’s lunch we not only save our neighbor but also would feel what it’s like to be hungry, suffering.
In Indonesia there are still a lot of people that are poor and hungry, only not shown on TV to be noticed by the world.
Suppose a family here too skipped one lunch, no, not one lunch but just skipped one spoonful milk each, our dog or cat might share in drinking milk, without having lost almost nothing of our milk share ourselves.
If each one skips just one stick of his satai (roasted meat on a stick) our household servant would equally share in eating very delicious satai.
Skip one outing to an expensive Japanese-, Korean-, American-, Seafood- restaurant and you could present your house maid an extra big bonus on Lebaran (Moslem Feast day).
Oh, there are such a lot of things we could skip then collect, gather the money saved to help the poor, suffering people. Imagine such things to skip as an expensive live show and just see it on TV instead, skip staying in a five star hotel and stay in a country inn, Skip flying in a plane and take the train, or bus, … And what about skipping not just once but many times. Oh what a huge fund could be raised. But alas, there’s no princess Anne who would urge us, Indonesians to do so.
From Suara Pembaruan, May 11, 1991
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