If you're reading this, you are fortunate.
You have access to this article, which means you are reading this from either a phone, tablet, laptop, desktop, or maybe even newspaper. All things some do not have access to.
You have the ability to read and comprehend these words because you're literate, unlike the other 17 percent of the world we tend to forget about.
You have the ability to respond because you were taught proper sentence structure and how to express your ideas and form them into words, unlike the 72 million children of primary education age that are not in school.
Let us not forget these things. Let us not forget our privilege. Let us not forget our luck. And yes, I call it luck because all of us reading this were born with these simple, yet forgettable privileges. At no fault of their own, children around the world are born into families with nothing. No shelter. No perishable food. No clean and safe water. No set education system.
We are fortunate because even if you were born into a family with little to nothing, you were born with basic human rights. You are reading this right now. You are alive, which means you were fed, clothed, housed, protected and taught how to read and write.
Let us not forget that privilege. Let us not forget about that 17 percent. Or the 795 million people in the world who are suffering from chronic undernourishment. Let us not forget the 663 million people who lack access to clean and safe water or the 2.4 billion people that lack access to a toilet.
Let us not forget that we have the ability and access to all of these things, including the ability to help out; spread awareness, spread kindness and spread love. And if you're fortunate enough to, donate.
Just some places you can donate towards these issues:
http://clifonline.org/how-to-help/donate/
http://donate.worldvision.org/ways-to-give/hunger
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/11/book-charities-that-help-kids_n_6817484.html
http://www.pageahead.org/donate.php
https://donate.charitywater.org/donate/home-varian...
