PLN 8: The Weight Station

In the Nata Village blog, "The Weight Station", what matters is helping others support their family when money and jobs are scarce. Once a month, parents take their baby to a “weight station”, where the baby is weighed to see if they are in good health. If the baby is healthy, the government will give the family a food basket and baby formula. This is very helpful to those people who have very low-paying job, and find it difficult to provide enough food for them and their family.
By the government giving food and baby formula to those families with a healthy baby, it is showing that the government cares about the new generation, and is willing to put forth some help to keep them, and their families healthy and nourished. The government is involved in individual family’s lives, and takes note that jobs are very rare, making food harder to keep on the table. The government has taken a step into leading their village out of poverty. They have leaded the village into the idea of giving food and good drink to the hungry and to those who have large families and cannot afford to buy enough food need to support themselves.
If more and more individuals also donated food to those people in the world that have very little, it would help bring the world out of so much poverty. There would be less and less people who eat only once or twice a week, pr who live on the streets without food and good water, except what they can get from trash cans or the money that they get from begging off the side of the road. Places like food shelters, such as the Bread of Life and the Denver Rescue Mission are made up of people that care about those living on the street, and have done something about it by opening a place where canned food is collected and given to the homeless and the poor. By just giving a can or two around Thanksgiving, and Christmas, we can all make a difference in solving the issue of all the hungry people in the world.