Our generation must collaborate to solve the growing hunger and food insecurity crisis. We can begin by volunteering at food banks, organizing food drives, establishing community gardens, and serving in soup kitchens. We can also advocate for long-term solutions, such as increased government funding and localized food production.

To raise awareness and promote action, we must educate the public about the causes and ramifications of hunger. I have been leading the Harvest for the Hungry program for the past three years, where volunteers learn about hunger and food insecurity before picking and packaging crops for distribution. After the event, we reflect on what we have achieved and discuss how to improve our impact.

Organizing my first Thanksgiving turkey drive, I encouraged many schoolmates and other teenagers to volunteer and gain first-hand experience in serving the community. Several returned the following year, many of them vowing to undertake their own organizing efforts in their own neighborhoods.

As the youth group leader of a non-profit called the Chinese American Parent Association of Howard County (CAPA-HC), I have helped to establish the "Adopt-A-Road" program and organized many local clean-up days. As a result of our efforts to keep our community green, we are helping to reduce pollution and other climate change-related stress factors which contribute to supply chain vulnerability.

Statistically, food insecurity affected a total of 828 million people in 2021, with two-thirds of them being women. Young girls and women, consequently, must be afforded concentrated educational and training opportunities if we wish to eradicate world hunger in the long run. Being a child of first-generation immigrants, I have witnessed, time and again, the power of education.

Childhood hunger is too big a problem for one organization to solve alone. Let us serve as the "Stop Hunger Scholars" in the effort to bring the Stop Hunger Foundation closer to its goal of working toward ending the scourge of hunger.