RE: Come With Me On My Breakfast Hunt - Introducing Mr. Gourmet
That looks like a pretty awesome place to get gourmet waffles!
I didn't know where you were going to take the story after
When I woke up this morning, I found out some bad news - my fridge was empty! And my belly too.
I immediately thought of friends in Africa that have that as a reality (minus the fridge).
Sometimes we forget what a luxury it is to be able to simply drive wherever we want and eat at any time of the day.
Being in Africa really opened my eyes to how a lot of the world lives. While I may have been hot and thirsty in Africa, money provided my parents and I with bottled water and our choice of food.
But traveling off the roads deep into the more impoverished areas I found people that struggled to find clean water (My parents and I helped to open up a well that was very dirty before, but was still being used for water and people were walking miles to get for).
We were also given lunch inside the huts and what little they had was shared with us.
I know this was not the route your story took, but thought I would share what your article prompted in me.
Yes I visited Africa too, and I saw the pain for myself. But in my opinion it doesn't make much sense to donate, because the corruption rate is so high and you don't actually know if your money ends up with the ones in need. The best way to help is probably to go there yourself and help out with your own hands.
I'm very careful about what organizations I donate to. I have been to all the ones I support, including visiting the children we support as well. But yes corruption is high, so supplies and money that is sent for aid is often taken by corrupt government/law enforcement.
I'm hoping to fund the return trip to visit my friends there and give more moral support through steemit once I have worked out of a bit of debt.