Famine...

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“There was no food, no help. There are kids dying left and right—I'm not exaggerating. They buried 12 on the day I visited,” said Jason Straziuso, a reporter for the Associated Press.

"What I'm asking is for Americans to reach out and help because the situation is dire," said Biden, who met with two Somali mothers and their eight children during her visit to the camp. "There is hope if people start to pay attention to this."


More than 29,000 children under the age of 5 have died in the last 90 days in southern Somalia alone, according to U.S. estimates. The U.N. says 640,000 Somali children are acutely malnourished, suggesting the death toll of small children will rise in the coming weeks.

There is hunger all over the world. It's not just in Africa it's also in countries like Nicaragua. Yes the US also has it's problems and I'm not asking anyone to donate or anything even thought that would be nice too but all I'm asking is for everyone and anyone that can and would like to help this countries in need of help there is a web site called Freerice.com and for those who don't know this site. It's a site that helps send food to countries in need of it. This organization sends free rice to the countries in need. The site also has different subjects for you to do to help you improve whatever you wish while at the same time helping people in need.

And if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday. Isaiah 58:10

If you refuse to listen to the cry of the poor, your own cry will not be heard.Proverbs 21:13 TEV

Thanks for your time God Bless

 

[Ramy Hanna]

May Jesus save us all, I hope and pray the Nile levels don't lower too.

 

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May Jesus save us all, I hope and pray the Nile levels don't lower too.

Amen Ramy, my prayers go out to your country also.

 

[Ramy Hanna]

Thank you Skipbeat, God bless you.

 

[rizen1]

How to solve the problem.

1. Give them land so they can grow their own food as they did before colonization.

2. Stop imposing western values( homosexuality, pedophilia, abortion etc. ) in exchange for aid ( food, money, clinics etc )

3. Allow them to be self sufficient

4. Any land stolen from them should be returned,

5. Contact your Government leaders and officials to relocate the people on fertile land in africa, their homeland. It would save them money ( actually they would lose land for their factories so be persistant ), full bellies would reduce crime ( oppress a man, treat him like an animal and expect him to become an animal to survive ), stop the drug testing and Fine Nestle for exploiting the waters of Africa and not providing enough water for the public ( the money should be use to build wells ).

Water privatisation was seen by the World Bank and G8 countries as the most effective way to bring clean water to large numbers of poor countries throughout the 1990s, but in spite of investments of $25bn (£14bn) between 1990 and 1997, the rich have mostly benefited at the expense of the poor. Sub-Saharan Africa has received less than 1% of all the money invested in water supplies by private companies in the last 10 years.
John Vidal, environment editor
The Guardian UK..Wednesday 22 March 2006

These devils would always hide behind charity and goodwill to fill their pockets and steal from the poor.

Donating money is good, but one must understand Africa before one decides to lend a hand. The only way to help Africa is get to the root of the problem, know the history and correct the mistakes of fore fathers. Learn how developed countries took advantage of poor countries.

In 1988 – 1994 Greenpeace revealed 94 attempted/actual cases of hazardous
waste exports to Africa, involving over 10 million tons of residues. Some schemes included the building of local waste management facilities, incinerators and landfills. Others concerned radioactive waste – such as the infamous ODM
project that targeted at least 16 different African countries. Many schemes, however, were simple dumping operations. Waste containers were shipped away
following a path of least resistance and weakest governance, ending up in remote areas of countries such as Equatorial Guinea, Lebanon, Somalia and the Congo. Toxic waste was dumped on Nigerian and Haitian beaches.1

The power of hidden networks
European countries have been faced with the challenge of dealing with the hazardous waste they produce for at least 30 years. As the cost of managing and disposing of this waste safely became clear, our governments began exporting the problem to developing countries where environmental and workplace legislation is either inadequate or unenforced. It is also cheaper to “recycle” waste in developing countries; the cost of glass-to-glass recycling of computer
monitors in Europe is ten times more than in China.

"Organised crime is plundering West Africa - destroying governments, the
environment, human rights and health", warned the UNODC Executive Director.
"This makes West Africa more prone to political instability and less able to achieve the Millennium Development Goals."
"A powerful minority, all the way to the top, is profiting from crime in West Africa, at the expense of the many", he added, warning that, left unchecked, "democracy and development will falter, while crime and corruption will flourish." Waste trade offers many opportunities for illegal and “quasi-legal” activity. Waste hauling, transport and disposal are considered to be among the major sources of income for criminal organisations who either directly or indirectly control these
activities.
GreenPeace

To help Africa you must first respect africa. This atmosphere of poverty was created and given birth to because of the seeds that was planted during colonization. It is nice that foreigners want to help, but you can not do it in pity. You are no better than these people, the only difference is colonization may have been for the benefit of your country and now you can reap those benefits. They are not sub-humans. Give because you know you should, because God wants us to walk in love with our neighbors. Don't give out of pity, because in doing so you're implying your above the person. God created us equal and we should treat each other with love and equality.

Have true compassion and love don't be like these UN peacemakers in this photo, roasting a somalian boy.

These things happen when we are not helping with the right attitude. It's only when the church, society start seeing africans as humans then we could make change. Buying rice can not make change but serves as a distraction to the real problems. All these non-profit organizations need to set their priority higher, but I know they can't for most of their sponsors are the same one supporting policies that are not in the interest of Africa and other poor countries.

Start a real movement, hold governments and the UN accountable. There's an estimate of 10 million millionaires on this earth, 1,210 billionaires in the world as of march 2011....yet these organization spend more time peddling money from middle class folks and poor folks for donations to buy rice. Settling for rice when these folks should have a 10 course meal and have money to send there kids to school.


We can do better than that. Give these people fertile land to live on so they can be self sufficient and not rely on foreign aid. Why does the UN insist on keeping poor countries poor.

It doesn't matter these people are poor and hungry and would eat about anything..

That might be the general census, but eat rice alone(no salt ,spice, with dirty water, yes you didn't think this far to even wonder if these people have access to clean water to cook the rice in the first place..) Eat rice for this whole month and donate your food money, that way you and the family in somalia can eat rice. Come back at the end of the month and let me know how satisfying it was to eat rice everyday. I almost forgot you can't use running water from your house, so head out back to your yard or your neighbors and fetch water dirty or clean to cook your rice.

Feeding those in need must be done with compassion and love. We must put ourselves in their shoes and say ;
what would I want and need ?
how can I change this situation forever ?

5) ODM Inc. (BVI)

Between 1994 and 1995, Giorgio Comerio, on behalf of the company Oceanic
Disposal Management (ODM) contacted at least 16 African governments, including the Somali warlord Ali Mahdi, seeking authorisation to import
radioactive waste to be disposed into the sub-seabed of their exclusive economic zone. ODM project was a “simplified” version of that studied for more than a decade by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). 12 OECD countries and the European Community were involved in the research project39 http://www.greenpeace.org/italy/Global/italy/report/2010/inquinamento/Report-The-toxic-ship.pdf

 

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Very nice rizen1 :cute: