Think Fast, Imagine
1.85 Billion Hands
by: Drew Love
Can you imagine my two hands? Of course you can. They look,
by all accounts, similar to your two hands. Although I don’t trim my nails as
often as I should, and I’m terrible at moisturizing. But for the most part, you
can imagine what a pair of hands looks like.
What about your hands and
my hands? The mental arithmetic becomes slightly more difficult, but not
terribly so. Yet at some point, if we continue to add pairs of hands to this
mental image, there comes a time when you reach the limit of your
imagination. We can only imagine so many hands at a time, and it’s usually a
very small number.
So if I ask you to imagine 1.85 billion hands, is it even
worth the question?
And if I tell you that those 1.85 billion hands are a part
of the 925 million people who went hungry last year, can we really understand the scope of that hunger?
The challenging part is that even if we could understand the
depth of that problem by reading a statistic, we would reach that understanding
alone, most likely in front of our computers and in silence.
Now that’s depressing.
But there are better ways to understand the challenges we
face. The most visceral form of learning is to go through an experience, not
just read a statistic. The most empowering way to resolve a challenge is to do
it with a sense of community, not in isolation.
So would you like to learn about hunger in the only way we
can, by experiencing it? And would you like to learn about it in the only
context that will ever create a solution, with a community?
We ask you to become part of that experience, part of that
community, and part of the solution of reaching out to those 1.85 billion
hands, so that 925 million people no longer have to go hungry.
