Journalists to help spread aids

I was reading the Ajker Kajog ( a Bangla daily newspaper) the other day and a news hit me right in the middle of my heart. This very old woman was picking up "kachu" ( a kind of plant that grows near the pond, but can be eaten as vegetable) for her "Seheree" (latenight supper for fasting). She only had water for her Iftar (breaking fast) yesterday and she has nothing to eat in the Iftar today!

I understand that there are thousands of people like around the world, perhaps more in one country than others, but rarely do we think about that when we eat every day.

It is easy to criticise the government for not doing enough. But I don't really think any goernment can gurantee that every citizen will go to sleep with a full stomach. We are not living in an platonic world!

However, the government should know what is happening around the country for sure. But what am I saying! The District Commissioner is busy entertaining the VIPs at their guest houses and he doesn't have time for this "petty" matters!

So I was thining how about distributing special kind of aids through the journalists? For instance, if I had a way to send some small amount (say $50.00) to the journalist who wrote this news piece, then next time around he could give the money to this woman. In that way, throughout the country thousands of journalists who are seeing the reality as real as it can get can in turn let us know and we can help any way we can.

This is like giving the medicine exactly where it is needed. Just a thought.