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Hunger During Ramadan: Empathy [ No comments]
August 7, 2012
As an American Muslim Blogger, I can identify with the cabdriver’s response about Ramadan and hunger because fasting is a challenging exercise in empathy--regardless of education or social standing and outward piety. The knotty sensation in my tummy and the 5 pm headaches go beyond hunger and thirst. Some will take naps to sleep off the stress. Others will sit down and watch the news or troll social media to catch up with the world. Everyone needs breaks. But, overall, in the 29 or 30 days of abstaining from food and drink, God is testing my patience along with my powers of observation. Fasting is the struggle to become empowered through empathy.
Tags: childhood hunger , muslim , ramadan , religion
Hunger During Ramadan: Altruism [ 1 comment]
August 7, 2012
Any outsider observing the Muslim month of Ramadan would say that it is an apparently contradicting holiday—a long day of fasting followed by an intense celebration of food! This time of year is probably most known for Muslims unleashing the most dazzling and most colorful recipes that can be found in their cultural arsenal.
Tags: childhood hunger , hunger , no kid hungry , ramanda
Hunger During Ramadan: Awareness [ No comments]
August 7, 2012
Ever since I was little the idea of Ramadan has always fascinated me. Although fasting is common in many religions, within Islam it plays an important part of our history, our makeup and our identity as Muslims. Perhaps the fundamental reason being that fasting is one of the five most important things (commonly known as the Five Pillars) that are integral for a practicing Muslim to endure. For this reason alone, I believe that I have always had an acute awareness that there were other people, children, human beings, like myself -- living a life stricken in poverty, and that in one way or another, I needed to help them.
Tags: childhood hunger , hunger , ramadan
The Wind at Our Backs [ No comments]
March 29, 2012
This week, I was proud to welcome Share Our Strength to Capitol Hill for a briefing on the role of federal food and nutrition programs in ending childhood hunger. I was thrilled to see a standing-only room, because a lot of people in Washington have no clue about what hunger really means, or what it looks like.
Tags: capitol hill briefing , childhood hunger , federal food and nutrition programs , hunger