Essay On My Trip To Zacapa, Guatemala

World hunger and poverty are still huge issues world poverty rates are under 10% and that sounds like a great numbers but in reality that is over 720 million individuals. Individuals with lives that matter but they have no hope for the future. During spring break 2015 I took a trip with my church to Zacapa, Guatemala with the organization Hope of Life Guatemala. Guatemala is a very beautiful country but that beauty is just a thin veil; it doesn’t take very much digging to discover the overwhelming problem in Guatemala poverty. Nearly 60% of the population of Guatemala is living in poverty not knowing when the next meal will arrive or how to feed their children. During one day we went to a feeding station that Hope of Life had set up, the feeding center was right outside the local trash dump. That day …show more content…
After that day I came to a shocking reality up until this point in my life I never really believed that situations like that existed, I had seen all the sad sorry commercials “ help this child for only $1 a day” but never really believed. When this realization hit me I started to wonder: Why was this so? and How many more Americans are exactly like I was? I believe American’s have become so comfortable with the life that we live we chose not to see beyond our own wants. A large portion of American society is extremely spoiled we get what we want exactly when we want it. Because of this attitude many Americans don’t really believe that that poverty that we see on TV could actually exist. Children grow up with this attitude they see their parents do nothing when those commercials come on TV or even change the station to avoid watching them. By doing this parents set a standard that their children are almost helpless to