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Nonfiction in response to Partnerships for the Goals
May 2019
When I was little, my teachers taught my peers and me skills like adding and subtracting, reading and writing. They also taught us other skills like sharing with each other, talking about our problems, and negotiating solutions. These are basic principles...
By Georgia Bernbaum
May 2019
Nonfiction in response to Partnerships for the Goals
To achieve all 16 goals, the United Nations put forth the 17th goal which encourages collaboration between public and private sector to achieve the goals.Schools, public or private, play an important role to help achieve this 17th goal. They should prepare the future...
By Grace Muresan
Poem in response to Zero Hunger
February 2018
By Mofe Akinyanmi

CC Image courtesy of Wayne S. Grazio
you learn to ignore it.
the rumble in your gut
the silent plea from your stomach for food
the craving slowly consumes you
and there’s no way to satiate it
you can count your ribs without an x-ray
your collarbones are an empty pool
your eyes are sunken, like craters, in your face
your jaw is like a weapon, threatening to cut you
your mind is filled to the brim with memories of food
the plantains your mother used to fry
with a bit of sugar and salt on top
the tender goat meat inside the savory red tomato stew that you could smell cooking a mile a way and instantly your mouth would salivate in anticipation.
the light airy puff-puff that you never ate often, but you still mourned it anyways,
but she’s gone.those harmless mosquito bites that you never thought could do great harm
were the reason why malaria over
came herand before you could accept that reality
she was gone.
your father was non existent.
as you bounced from relative to relative, none of them could afford another child.
you ran away from the last one, who beat you with a switch of palm wood.
that your mother never would’ve done.
she loved you too much to ever hurt you just for a mistake, she’d say.
after running away, you had no one left.
your home was an alley, near the big streets.
your possessions weren’t much to marvel at.
a ragged blanket, a shirt covered in marks and some shorts with a hole in the side.
each day, you walked the streets, praying to god you could have something to eat.
‘please ma, could you spare some money for a starving child?’
‘please sir, god blesses those who give.’
but no one ever listened.
they continued on with their lives,
rolling up the windows on their motorized private bubbles,
averting their eyes and frowning, as if you were
invisible.
you sometimes wondered if you could go on.
the strength began to seep from your body.
the occasional morsel from the trash was not enough.
the dirty water from the streets could not quench your thirst.
each day, you lost another part of your self.
you could barely remember who you used to be.
all you remember from that last moment is the pain going away.
it seemed to float from your body,
like the fog rose from the lagoon each morning.
and suddenly i wasn’t there anymore
and i ended up here.
I don’t know where I am.
I don't know what this place is.
but all that matters is here,
the agony of hunger is no more
and I’m free.