Update: Thank you so much for your support. I raised an undisclosed amount which will help to save lives of starving children.

School is so hard now-a-days. The work is a burden; I don’t get to sleep until my homework is done. This is usually around midnight. This means I have sleep deprivation. My eyelids are as heavy as gumboots as I blink slower and slower. Today I was happy. I got to sleep in, my Saturday morning Chinese class was cancelled because my teacher was sick. I woke up at 12pm. That’s 12 hours of beautiful sleep. I feel like I’m in a low point in my life - but I should feel blessed. I am better off than most in this world. There are people worse off than me and you. A lot worse.

Half the world - nearly three billion people - live on less than two dollars a day.

This year I’m doing the 40 hour famine. Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names; The lives of 1.7 million children will be needlessly lost this year [2000] because world governments have failed to reduce poverty levels - we have taken life for granted.

The 40 hour famine is a World Wide event held annually to help ones who are holding onto life by a disintegrating piece of string, ones who ration each grain of rice, each molecule of water, ones who die of medication which costs a mere $2, one Big Ben mince and cheese pie. My objective is to stave myself for 40 hours, living on juice and barley sugars. In doing so, I get sponsored by sympathetic, rich and caring people (such as yourself), but ultimately help the ones who are dying and in need of life’s fundamentals.

Just because you don’t know me personally is no longer and excuse for not sponsoring me. This can now be done via the internet, via your shiney looking visa, mastercard or amex card. Common, help the ones in need. Give basics, give life.