How to end hunger in Mexico

Out of 8 people I know, one of them may go to bed hungry tonight.

The current population of Mexico is estimated to be about 117.41 million people. Driving in their streets, you can find at almost any stop sign a homeless person asking for money. I’ve always wondered why this situation doesn’t have sufficient social weight to wane in such ostensibly shame of humanity.

I want to do something, and inspire people around me to make a difference. I don’t mean going out on the streets handing out pieces of bread, but to provide homeless people the means to obtain daily livelihood needs.

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” ― Hélder Câmara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings

Let me first explain how this was caused. Through history, Mexico’s governments have always been exploiters of their people for wealth and power, causing corruption, diseases, economic decline, moral decline, cultural decline and even persecution in many ways. Now we are more than 100 million Mexicans and we still have not been able to react to shed our government’s baseness of thoughts and actions in order to banish hunger in our country.

For example, it’s said that Mexico’s most inhabitants are Catholics, but we have not been able to banish our fellow’s hunger and nakedness we see in our cities and towns. Lack of workplaces with the consequent shortage of jobs, schools of “sticks” (that means walls and ceilings sustained by such material) and why elaborate more, realizing all the gaps except those we don’t want to see. Gaps that claim and claim to be satisfied.

I am not proposing we should start a political, let alone arena armed confrontation (the most awkward and absurd confrontation of all), but to do our duty, our civic duty, to find and select the better governor candidates in order to conform governments that cherish true intentions to serve their people with honesty, fairness and justice.

I should say that the enemies we face are many and fierce. The most important being money, power, corruption and the media (especially mexican television networks) with their terrible thrust to penetrate into the deepest recesses of homes and minds with his huge load of attractions of violence, sex and exaltation of the lowest human instincts. Let me quote St. Paul, taken from the most beautiful book of Pope Benedict XVI:

“Put on the weapons that God has given you to be able to withstand the wiles of the devil, because our struggle is not against men of flesh and blood, but against forces on human and supreme evil that dominate this dark world.“ ― Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth

To succeed it’s essential that we as Mexicans know and be aware of our own gaps and seek unity to serve our poor through civic duty. We can make a difference by talking to people in our own neighborhood in order to create the effect of a stone falling in calm water, which is to form ever larger circles until they reach the shore.