Hunger
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As another member of our team, himself also a refugee, put it: "In Canada, a SIM card is more important than food, because we will not die from hunger."
She was inspired by the British suffragettes, who went on
hunger
strikes and endured imprisonment in the early 1900s.
The same way your thirst motivates you to get a drink of water, the same way your
hunger
motivates you to get a bite to eat, your anger can motivate you to respond to injustice.
We were all starving, and
hunger
means death in North Korea.
These coastal people have the most to gain from conservation because, for many of them, fishing is all that keeps them from poverty,
hunger
or forced migration, in countries where the state is often unable to help.
This is how we work to end
hunger.
And what I've come to realize is that we are doing
hunger
wrong.
And here in the United States, nearly 40 million people experience
hunger
every single year, including more than 11 million children that go to bed hungry every night.
All of this made me realize that
hunger
was not an issue of scarcity but rather a matter of logistics.
So in 2017, I set out to end
hunger
using technology.
I believe that technology and innovation have the power to solve real problems, especially
hunger.
We wanted to change the way that we think and work to solve
hunger
in this country, get people to believe that we can solve hunger, not as a nonprofit, not as a food bank but as a social enterprise, with the goal of reducing waste and ending
hunger.
But it hasn't been as easy as I thought to change the narrative and the thought process on how we think that
hunger
can be solved.
Everyone can take on the roles of changing the attitudes about how we solve
hunger.
When we think of how we've allowed innovation and technology to change our lives, from how we communicate with each other to how we view our entertainment to how we even receive food, it's amazing that we haven't solved
hunger
yet.
With millions of dollars being donated to end food insecurity, we should've solved
hunger
years ago.
And the reality is, one would think that
hunger
is being solved, but the truth is, it's being worked on.
If we really want to solve hunger, then we have to change the way we've been doing it.
They have a focus to solve really big problems, like hunger, but they'll never get the same support that we give national hunger-fighting organizations and food banks.
That's why I'm traveling the world and I'm really talking about what
hunger
looks like in America and explaining the difference between giving people access to food and access to meals.
I've been meeting with school boards and school districts to talk about how we feed hungry children, and health care organizations, sharing the message that food is health, and food is life, and that, by solving hunger, we can solve so many more problems.
But the reality is that food drives do not solve
hunger.
If we solve hunger, we have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
That passion and that
hunger
and that ability to be a sponge really attracts awesome mentors and people willing to give you their time to give you some good advice.
And everywhere I go, including here at TED, I feel that there is a new moral
hunger
that is growing.
We identified 10 of the biggest challenges in the world, and I will just briefly read them: climate change, communicable diseases, conflicts, education, financial instability, governance and corruption, malnutrition and hunger, population migration, sanitation and water, and subsidies and trade barriers.
I can't look you in the eyes and tell you that there is such a solution for those things, or the energy crisis, or world hunger, or peace in conflict.
Because of the hunger, I was forced to drop out of school.
Pump water meant irrigation, a defense against hunger, which we were experiencing by that time.
So, that's probably a bit of a counter-intuitive idea, so I'll say it again, let it sink in: If we want to solve problems like hunger, poverty, climate change, global conflict, obesity, I believe that we need to aspire to play games online for at least 21 billion hours a week, by the end of the next decade.
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