You probably heard about the school collapse in Haiti a couple of weeks ago.

But did you know that the school collapse was the just the latest in a series of disasters to befall the island nation?

Consider this CNN article that reports on the worldwide food shortage and uses Haiti as an example.

Most mothers, the writer says, choose what their children will eat.

Mothers in Haiti choose which of their children will eat.

The ones who eat stand a chance—albeit small—at survival.

The ones who don’t ... well, their mothers make the choice to sacrifice them so that the rest may be able to live.

Can you imagine such a situation?

Can you imagine looking into the eyes of two or three of your children, knowing that they are starving, and making the decision not to feed them?

Read the story from CNN. We’ve talked a lot about oil and gas distribution this year, as the price of crude oil spiked to record levels this summer.

If only people would pay as much attention to the fact that there are millions of people—millions of children, alone—literally starving to death throughout the world.

I think about this kind of thing when I see stories on TV about the excesses of Hollywood, the high fashion, the things that are available on Rodeo Drive, the $500 bottles of wine, the expensive spa treatments, the dinners that run into the thousands of dollars, the $23 million murals  bought and paid for with aid that is supposed to go to feed these hungry people ...

... when people in Haiti are eating dirt cakes that they’ve baked in the sun.

One hunger aid agency estimates that somewhere in the world, a child dies of hunger every six seconds.

That’s 300 children during your favorite sitcom.

How is it that the rich nations of the world can tolerate, can stomach this unimaginable horror?

It’s World Hunger Relief Week.

What can—what will —you do to help?