There are children starving in Africa...a modern version?

[WeasleyWoman]

When I was little and whinged life was unfair my Mum would say "There are children starving in Africa; that is unfair" and she made a good point. My 5 year old has started saying everything is unfair and I want a similar phrase to remind him he is lucky and that there is true unfairness and injustice in the world. "Children starving in Africa" just feels a little to band aid and unhelpful though. Any ideas on a better phrase to use?

There are thousands of children living in poverty here. We have one of the worst levels of inequality in the world.

Life isn't fair? My DGM told me that as a toddler, and I'm grateful I learned it young

We were told to never waste food because there were poor children starving in Africa, makes more sense than fairness.
I find children now have no concept of wastage, whether of food, hot water or electricity, toilet paper or time. Saving finite resources on our planet should be something everybody considers now and it starts at home.

If you want to go down that route, there will probably be children in his class coming to school hungry, their lunch might be the only hot meal they get in a day.

That aside, I'm not sure it's helpful to make kids feel somehow grateful for the life they've been given. They don't know any different so it's difficult for a kid that age to put it into context. Instead of making them feel bad for what they've got, why not try and teach them how to utilise that privilege to help those in need.
Last xmas we bought a load of mince pies and went into town to walk around and give them to the homeless. I wanted the kids to see them as human beings with stories. If they asked questions off the back of it, we answered them truthfully. A few weeks sgo, they both gave their leftover pocket money to a homeless man as we were leaving the supermarket, totally out of the blue. I was gobsmacked but pleased they understood the situation and acted on it. To me, teaching your kids empathy and proactiveness is more important than expecting them to be grateful for their life - that's down to me... I have created their world for them.

‘It’s not fair!’ And my dad would say ‘neither is the hair on my chest it’s just how it is’