From Concern to Action: Confronting the Truth About Malnourishment Click Play to begin

Hi, this is Tony McWilliams, and I’m here with my daughter.

Hi, I’m Lindey Duckworth, and I’m here with my dad.

And so I feel like we are all on a big awareness journey right now. Yes, we’re making inquiry. We’re asking questions. We’re saying, where’s the integrity here? Let’s button down the hatches. Come on, let’s not play the game.

So this is extending even now into what are we feeding the children of the world? Like I am concerned about what I feed my children.

Yeah, now I’m just thinking, are we giving scraps? That is something to really think about. What are we offering? What are we giving? What are we providing even the children of the world?

And Sam, of course, as I began to talk with him more, began to realize that he had to find an answer. I mean, his level of integrity was, I mean, if he could say to me in the middle of my telling that story, don’t get me started, you knew I hit a nerve.

And having done so, the more I talked to him, the more I realized that he had discovered something in the context of social business that could turn this thing around.

Because the amount of children who die yearly, they’re estimating it as 7 million children who die every year relative to malnourishment. And that doesn’t count the ones who are because of malnutrition, diseased or infirmed in some way.

Okay, so malnutrition connected to that are many diseases. So it’s not just kids dying of starvation.

Yeah. Is there starvation in parts of the world? Yes. But malnutrition is a much bigger problem. Hopefully we can do something about both, but we’ve got to start with the malnourishment area.

And if we can start there and find some success, then we can keep moving forward with this, especially if it’s in the context of social business.

Well, thanks for the conversation, Dad. Thanks for listening in, everybody. I hope you will always be careful to maintain good works, to meet urgent needs, and become heroes to your generation.

And as my mom always used to say, when you choose to look past the horizon, the sky’s the limit. See you soon.