Editor's Note: Elhadj As Sy is the UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa.
By Elhadj As Sy – Special to CNN
Not long ago, Hawa Issak realized that if she stayed in her home in Southern Somalia, she would not be able to secure the survival of her two children and herself. She was pregnant with a third child, her husband had left her and the region’s worst drought in decades had scorched the earth creating utter desolation.
She set out with six other families to find help in Kenya. It took them a month to reach Dadaab, on the other side of the Kenyan border, almost 200 miles away. It’s a remarkable feat for anyone. Now imagine thousands - tens of thousands - of people similarly on the move, stumbling for weeks through dust and scrub beneath a blistering sun. Most of them are women and children hoping to stay alive long enough to reach what has ballooned into the biggest refugee camp in the world.
Right now there is a massive and shocking humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Horn of Africa –specifically in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti. The triple shock of drought, skyrocketing food prices and the ongoing armed conflict in Somalia has created an almost perfect storm of disaster.
Over 2 million children are malnourished, including some 500,000 who are suffering from life-threatening severe malnutrition. Families are fleeing their communities in search of food and water. Many are dying before they can get help.
What once was a village has become the third biggest human settlement in Kenya. So far, some 380,000 people are already in Dadaab looking for aid with an additional 10,000 people arriving every week. They are coming mostly from Somalia, where political instability deprives its starving citizens of any safety net. At Dadaab, they can get shelter, some safety and desperately needed food and water.
Up to 25% of children arriving in the camp are malnourished - that’s double what is considered the emergency threshold. Severely malnourished children receive therapeutic milk and, once they are stabilized, a ready-to-use high protein peanut paste that helps them recover from wasting. About $1 worth of this milk can feed a child for a day.
But the scope of this crisis is quickly overwhelming current resources. And those who survive the trip to Dadaab are sometimes too far gone to be saved.
Last Sunday, when I visited the Ifo section of Dadaab, I learned that six young children had died in the therapeutic feeding center, just in the course of the previous week.
It seems almost unbelievable that so many children might be at risk of dying from the consequences of malnutrition in the year 2011. UNICEF, along with national and international partners, is working non-stop to provide aid to those in Dadaab and throughout the Horn of Africa - strengthening its feeding and nutrition centers which have been operating in many places and providing safe drinking water and vaccines to make sure diseases do not compound the already desperate situation.
Still, there is no question more resources are needed, and fast. Aid organizations must have additional funding to meet the needs of the 10 million people threatened by this disaster. The more that’s done right now, the more lives can be saved. This is a crisis that’s been slow to build and even slower to make it onto the world’s radar. We cannot respond slowly. Every day counts.
You can help by donating at UNICEF or calling toll free: 1-800-FOR-KIDS (1-800-367-5437). You can also mail checks for UNICEF to 125 Maiden Lane, New York, NY 10038.
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I'd much rather see my foreign aid tax dollars go to help these drought victims in East Afica than to fighting these obnoxious wars that we're currently engaged in but the politicians in Washington want. I guess that these wars take priority over everything and that's why we can't balance the budget! We need to vote these charlatans out of office!!!
Its ok sheeple.......they breed like flies and want to eat and make more humans on this earth. When will bleeding liberals learn? Keep sending aid and having concerts to feed these rug rats and see how many U have next year. Can U say DIE BABIES DIE ? How about neuter and spade your pet ? Pass the Viagra and hold the condoms...........
@JoeBlow I can only say that I hope you never have to experience the events that you condem others to so blithely. What a small, mean person you must be.
Have you ever heard the golden rule?
i'm sure you blow your own joe.
This is exactly what Henry Kissinger and other elites subscribe to. Joe Blow equals cruel and uneducated fool. You can suck it Joe!
You must be a real likeable guy, I hope you need assistance some day and meet a person like you.
That is definitely one approach and it usually works. That is why the missionaries make sure to feed some of them, they like their little boys fattened a bit before sticking them with the Rod of their God
"breed like flies, bleeding liberals"
You do know it is YOUR party that is anti-abortion and anti-birth control right? Especially when it comes to white babies...anyone else well... let them eat cake... or sawdust.
I more or less agree. Giving money and food to thees people does not fix the problem, It just prolongs it. Now they don't have to fix their own problems because they get hand-outs. Im a firm believer in: "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime." And @Finch, the Golden Rule of Nature – the only one that matters – is The strong survive, the weak shall perish. It's the ways of things, so put down your silly bible and smell the coffee
Joe – You represent all the ideals of the GOP. Please send my campaign some money so that all my rich republican friends can control all the minions. When you elect me president, I will make you embassador of Somolia!
CNN posters aren't very adept at catching trolls, are they. This isn't a serious post, just a provocation to get people angry. Move along people, nothing more to see.
You are a poor excuse for a human being JoeBlow. Ever think the world might be better if you died (hopefully a painful death)?
We can't care for our own,
If you want money look to the cathloic POPE! maybe he can seel one of his gold hats, or robes.. He is the ass who told them not to use birth-control! If anyone should pay it should be him!
Google the United Nations report about ethanol in United States. Ethanol causes world starvation mass death. it i all to make a handful of farming corporations rich. Even worse for most Americans – it gums up the engine. Particularly small ones. So not only does Ethanol kill people and babies, it kills Engines.
Why? to get an even more devious group of criminals?
Simple solution: limit income of an employee of a company to maybe $300,000 a year. Why should a big bank executive get $30 million per year when Obama gets $400k or something like that? Stupid stupid corporations run the place. LIMIT SALARY.
When we senr aid, the warlords took it. When we tried to stop the warlords we ended up with black hawk down. Now the country is mostly run by Al-Qaeda affiliated Islamists. How can we help the continually starving more without great risk to ourselves?
Nature is cruel toward the indigenous in the Horn of Africa. The drought and political instability are twofold calamities.
Let nature take its course.
A lot of whites think that the more blacks, the better. Strange people, those Caucasians.
The Chinese view SS-Africans as little better than exploitable resources, and they're right.
Zance your response is the most hateful, racist thing I've ever read
Please stop wasting the earth's oxygen, Zance.
We (the US and Europe) view Africa this way, not the chinese. We project this on the chinese so we don't feel alone in our guilt of colonialism (an euphemism for murder and tyranny). Oh and the feed-the-world stuff and other African aid is akin to give a man a fish feed him for a day,,, apparently the chinese are teaching them how to fish. Their interactions with Africa is virtually all out of negotiation and consensual agreement. Roads, railroad tracks, bridges, powerplants, are being built by the chinese! The remaining white plantation owner who are still on the top of the food chain in many African countries of course don't like what's happening, and neither does Europe or America so we accuse them of exploiting resources, etc. which is really what we've been doing all along.. think oil, diamonds, slaves, etc.
Don't believe me, just ask Africans themselves. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8301826.stm
Spain has not pay Roland Jackson project money between Spain and Roland Jackson we are now having proves in Barcelona, Cairo in Egypt, Lagos in Nigeria etc that the Spanish government is asking people illegaly lieing to them to coloberates with spain that his life is in danger, this is to delay USA tribunal proccess not to reach for justice against those terrorist who are Spanish involves and participated in the New York terrorist attacked of the world trade centre. The spanish government tricks to see Roland Jackson setback not to be pay all his millions in Spain so that Roland will not pass justice for his millions witheld in spain in the proccess USA will be disgrace that spain refuse to pay an intelligence who is having firms with projects in spain completed projects. USA we must think about this now, we are going to reach up for those who wants justice to be distroy.
MORE MORE MORE!
My brain hurts.
is this where I go to blame israel?
Lawls Lawls
No way this is Israel's fault! Must be Obama's...........
This is not an immediate help for the starving, but somehow.. we need to help the world's poorest with birth control. Too many children!
I agree– birth control and education of women are the only long term answers. As we increase the world's population over 7 billion, situations like this one are only going to increase, also. But, it would certainly help if the Catholic Church would quit telling people that they will go to hell if they use more effective methods of birth control.
Birth control is tabu! Their religion doesn't allow it!
Whose religion? There's only ONE throughout this entire area???
They need to move out of the desert.
Nothing grows in the desert.
They need to MOVE TO WHERE THE FOOD IS !!
i agree i hate it when they do that
Mom Nature is just thinning the herd of the weak and useless ones, its a natural process. Breed indiscriminately and some have to die off. Don't worry, there are lots more.
Without ironclad guarantees you cannot count on ANY of your financial aid reaching these devastated people thru these secular organizations. Locate a christian ministry/individual that can be trusted, then send the aid to them for distribution. Better yet, travel there and give them your help.
So because an organization is "christian" makes it good and trustworthy? All "christian" is is a word, and nothing more. It, in NO WAY WHATSOEVER, is an indicator of how good or bad, or honest or dishonest a person or organization is.
I'd argue for the reverse. Aid groups associated with Christian groups are just as likely to be corrupt. AND at least the secular groups will do something about the long-term problem, namely teach and provide effective birth control. Just giving people food and telling them to abstain has not and will not fix the problem long-term.
If that is true, how come the CEO of Samaritan's Purse (one of the largest Christian Aid organizations in the world) makes over $1 million a year? I want my money to go to help the starving, not some rich American Christian.
No food no shelter no medicine no clean water even no health no water no rain no livestock no crops no peace no solution now. The largest refugee camp in the world Dadab refugee camp in Kenya . walking for days in search of food and water.worst humanitarian disaster in the world today. while some people have everything in their refrigerator. Somali people are suffering today. They seek assistance from Allah and the international community who sympathize with them.
Thanks!!
Yeah..allah theres your answer...what a bunch of fools...You see where allah has gotten you all...
Have you considered how much higher the probability of relief will be if those bringing the relief aren't being shot at?
The pizza guy won't deliver if he knows you're on the other side of the door with a gun.
AIDS and starvation are the only things that will kill off enough extra humans so that the far more valuable and rare animals can possibly survive extinction from poaching and overpopulation of wild lands. Really, wouldn't you rather have elephants, lions and giraffes that a bunch of ignorant and unneeded humans? Look at what those charming Somalis did to our troops. LET THIS BE.
You forget war. War is a much more efficient population control than any of the natural processes you describe.
You're right about excess humans, but the US had no business being in Somalia.
Written like a true subhuman.
"off enough extra humans so that the far more valuable and rare animals can possibly survive extinction from poaching and overpopulation of wild lands. "'
So you would compare the life of a poor African as worth less than a zebra or an elephant? What ignorant, open racism! It is not through your hard work you were born in America- it was only through luck/providence whatever you call it. How shameful to speak such hate in the public space in 2011! It is like saying to the slaves of the American south, "their deaths made room for cotton." Come on and be humane!!!!
If the slaves hadn't been brought to the New World, their descendants would be facing the kind of thing we're reading about here. West Africa, where they were taken from, is only marginally better than East Africa.
Time for US blacks to thank the white man for rescuing them.
That is a remarkably optimistic view. It's a shame more people don't share it.
People don't need to express thanks when the intention of the slave trade was pure evil and greed. Millions died and were treated brutally. Their was no goodwill whatsoever of course. This was pure corporate America at its best, and just as evil as the drug lords of today (which we partook in too, not only the largest human trafficking ever, but also the largest forced drug trade ever – opium). No thanks needed of course, even if spinoffs occurred. Its like thanking Hitler for persecuting Jews so Andy Grove of Intel and many others came to America.
You're looking at the future of the world.
"She was pregnant with a third child, [and] her husband had left her ..."
Same script blacks follow the world over.
Time to let nature do its thing.
What a pathetic human being. Did Curly and Larry put you up to this?
While it sounds horrible, why have more children than one can care for? If she had one child she'd be able to care for it better. However the birthrate there is high as people are used to high birthrates due to child mortality. Today they have the means of insuring that a much higher percentage of the children live to reach child bearing age themselves. Yet the high birthrates persist. I guess what's needed is education such as the one laptop per child initiative.
Imagine that you had no salary, no pension, no money to invest, no social security, no welfare, no government support at all. You own nothing and barely feed yourself by farming. Moving to a better place is not an option as you have no nowhere to go and no way to get there other than walking. Not that you would know anything about how to find a better place since you were never schooled in geography, or anything else. When you get too old to farm, there is no one to take care of you. Your choice is to have children or die. Children can help farm to feed themselves and maybe help to grow enough to sell. There is no health care, so you know that there is a good chance that half of your children will die very young. Therefore you need to have three or four to guarantee that at least one survives to take care of you. Then a drought happens, and the crops fail. Your children are now starving. You follow the trail of other starving farmers because you heard a rumor that there is food somewhere.
The reason you have no support is because your government is corrupt and spends its aid money on weapons. Meanwhile, those in the countries who get rich from selling your government those weapons are sitting at their computers sipping the cheap coffee that your relatives got paid 35 cents a day to grow (sweetened with the sugar that was grown with more slave labor, in mugs made by children in China), and they are typing to their rich counterparts that it is your own fault and you should die.
Proud to be an American.
"It seems almost unbelievable that so many children might be at risk of dying from the consequences of malnutrition in the year 2011." There are 6 billion people on a planet that one scientist said could probably only sustainably support 3 billion in any kind of comfort. In some ways it seems amazing that more are not dying but of course the issue is sustainably. We are eating into the ability of the earth to regenerate resources and daily reducing the sustainable amount of people that can be supported. We are overpopulated folks and what happens to the overpopulated of any species is happening to us. I wish it were otherwise but I don't believe in living on lies. I worry about my kids and the life they will have because the inevitable consequences are going to be reduced standards of living for all and I just hope they are still able to survive and live in comfort even if a very small house with one bath and clean water and enough food and decent if not great medical. It is not a guarantee even with the good educations they are getting.
So you have kids? How many? And isn't that part of the problem.?
Nice Bob. Exactly right. Its a problem everywhere else in the world except home, huh?
There's also always that one scientist in the "5 out of 6 would recommend sugarless gum". One scientist, wow.
China should sell their US bonds and buy th wheat from USA ans ship to E Africa to save these people before
the huge depreciation of the value of these bonds
What about next year??? You feed them they throw a big party and nine monthe later you got 2 million hungry children! Again charity begins at home, theres millions of Americans families who also need help.
Theres nothing new to the african situation in my lifetime, they get food they breed next year theres more to feed. Enough Already!
Apply the logic of your argument equally. What happens when you do the same for the millions here? Why would there be any difference?
It is tragic but how can u help them? The aid will be stolen, those that help will be attacked kidnapped. There is no viable solution to this problem, we have tried and failed to many times before.
worst drought in decades, not centuries Sam Kinison was right they need U-Hauls
Thank for those who are supporting those poor people in Somalia. Because if you think that it is okay for a child to die of starvation then you are not HUMAN. For those who think America helped. What help are you talking about? Operation Restore Hope was not help. It was a military invasion to try to put back the dicatorship that we got rid of ourselves. In the interest of the oil companies who were mad that their contracts with the dictatorship were no longer valid. How was that help? Then how many hundreds of people were killed during Operation Restore Hope it wasn't just the handful of US soldiers, Then for twenty years all America did was give money to war lords to continue the war. They set up a fake transistional government from people from the old dictatorship. They even gave Ethiopia money to invade Somalia two years ago. Then two weeks ago while people were starving in Kismayo US drones were shooting people. No offense all the Bush and Obama administration did not help at all. I don't know what in the world they were thinking. It is ridiculous. Obama, Bush, and Clinton have no problem attacking Somalia but not helping the starving people. Guns cost way more than food. A good monthly salary in Somalia is $40 US per month. You can feed maize and bread to the starving for $3 US a month, Guns cost way more, but that is all that is given to the Somali teenagers. Hiring them to work as child soldiers, At least if they and the arab countries don't want to help that is fine but they can stop causing harm by giving millions of dollars to these warlords. Using Somalia to fight a stupid Christian vs Muslim war. Enough fighting. People are dying. They need help. I am going to send my money every month to help feed people and so are all my friends. We are going to fundraise. We are going to help as many people as we can. Because it is never okay for any child to die of hunger.
Thank you Cindy. Whats needed here is to get the media on board. Politicians need votes get the story out where public approval is involved. Clinton and Bush swept this under the carpet and nobody reported it.
What you describe is no where near what the U.S. is doing in America...Beverly Hall, Atlanta, GA, ripped black kids off like no one before...and gets a pension. I don't recall her papers or books addressing Somalia, and she is black.
I agree with u Cind, i am previledged to have been born and live in this part of the world,for i would have been nowhere else better,the situation is scary and without further ado things wil b out of control! Where there is no development thea is no peace and vice versa..
Google should take a satellite image, or ask the US Government for a publically available image, then post it into Google Maps. It would also be nice for CNN to give a Google Maps Hyperlink for the camp, along with UNICEF/Red Cross or other charitys' donation info.
If you can't feed 'em, don't breed 'em.
Wait a minute..,.just last week Zakaria boasted that "Africa is a country on the move." The piece touted Africa as the garden spot of the globe. It appears that Zakaria is eager to overlook the starvation, dengue fever, dysentery, large-scale slavery, Hutu genocide, a rampant aIDS epidemic, children in the military, and pirates so that he compare it the the US so that the reader can infer the latter's inferiority.
c'mon 1/3rd of it is desert, another third is constantly at war with the other 1/3 lets solve our problems first then we'll help who's left!
"so that he compare it the the US" ?? Write much? Go back to school... or for you, perhaps I should say: skool.
Move our welfare there...and them here. Our fat epidemic will be cured and we will help some folks who actually need it as opposed to paying billions for lazy ass's.
joeblow are you a priest ?
YOU LIBERIAL FOOLS READ UP ON AFRICA'S WEALTH THEY HAVE 90% OF THE WORLDS DIAMONDS OVER HALF THE WORLDS OIL PLENTY OF OTHER MINERAL WEALTHS LIKE RUBIES, EMERALDS, SAPPHIRES ,AND LOTS OF NICE EXPENSIVE ROCKS.IT'S THE BIG BOYS WHO MAKE THOSE PEOPLE SUFFER NOT THE U.S.SO I SAY LET THE HUMAN SUFFERING CONTINUE IN THE END THE BIG BOYS WILL HAVE TO BURY THESE PEOPLE OR THEY THEMSELVES WILL DIE FROM HORRIBLE DISEASE'S.
Maybe Nkosi Thandiwe, from Atalanta, GA. can provide some insight, maybe some cultural connection to Somalia that moves America to help. Me, I remember the battle of Mogadishu. Maybe Oprah can have Nkosi Thandiwe on her afternoon time slot, give him a car and a makeover. How bout it Opie?? Sound good??
Yes, there are lots of SOMALIANS who need help. However, the help that is given from individuals, organizations or Gov's. does not reach the refugees. You and I know that.
You got top dog representative who work for these so call Non-Profit Organization such as UNICEF who steal and sell the food in the black market. Of course, you got the Somali, Ethiopian and Kenyan Gov. officials who also take their lion share. This is nothing but a big scheme that these Organizations including the UN uses to collect hundreds of millions to benefit themselves and also corrupt the third world leaders.
If the UN really wanted to help they would force these African leaders (dictators) help their own people first. If they disagree then they should freeze their bank assets and personal accounts. Believe me, these dictators have millions and billions in Switzerland Banks.
I would like to help but I don't trust the United Nations (UNICEF) to pass my donation along to those who will help these people. The UN is their worst enemy.
bualbshl120 on October 20, 2011 i think there should've been an i am legend game. could free roam the city and go through houses to find weapons, food, and medical equipment. online play could be like GTA4. im sure Will Smith would do it.
There are hungry American children in almost every town in this country... why dont we feed them first ?
Possibly because they are not dying from starvation?
Bill...........
What hungry Americans are you talking about? Ever heard of WELFARE?
They don't have that in the 3rd World!
People die of starvation in the US every day. Don't fool yourself. What is worse, do not try , please, to fool us.
People die of stupidity every day, as well. Why aren't you one of them?
America cannot feed the world. Go beg the UN. Maybe a people so stupid that they have four, five, six children into abject poverty don't deserve to survive.
They have several children to increase chances of survival. To say that we in the US cannot feed the world when our nation has the fattest a$$es on the planet is asinine. Our problem in this nation is morbid obesity, push away from the table tubby! Let others in the world have a turn at the trough pigglet. We don't have to feed the world, but maybe we can stop being hogs of the resources?
knsrei1 on April 16, 2011 etzel33! Wind turbines have a little accessory called 'vane' which detects the direction the wind is coming from and turns the turbine into that direction...dooooh!!!
America is in trouble. Grave trouble. We are on the verge of economic disaster and yet people in this forum are talking about sending financial aid yet again into a region where corruption and mismanagement will result in worthless allocation of your hard-earned dollars. If you want to devote your time and energy towards saving the rest of the world, but not your own, then that's great...and that's your business. As for me, I think it's time for Americans to start taking care of America so that we will still have a great country that can afford to help afford the less fortunate in the future. Our infrastructure is crumbling...we have rampant unemployment and foreclosures...homelessness is on the rise. If you are so ignorant as to believe that the US is NOT a 3rd world country now, then I would emplore you to visit an airport in the Middle East or drive on the pristine streets in Europe: Compare and contrast, my fellow Americans. It is not that we are losing the lead in our global rankings in education, standard of living, technology and quality of life....we have LOST that lead and are far below many industrialized nations. Live with it; you made it this way. Instead of taking care of business at home, you entrusted your country's leadership with those who would invest billions in the infrastructure of countries whose populace would, by and large, embrace the death of you and your loved ones. When will you finally put your own country first? When will you finally secure your own oxygen mask before assisting others? Why are we pumping billions into Afghanistan while our own roads and bridges are crumbling? Why are we outsourcing all our manufacturing jobs overseas? I weep for this country as I have truly witnessed the decline and fall of the American Empire. And this before I reached 50 years of age.
47, get a bad bowl of humus, eh? Pristine streets of Europe? Sound as if you have been watching too many PBS series, if indeed you are American. Your use of the first person plural is spotty, and telling. That switch between your "we" and your "you" is about as sincere as used lavatory paper. Try driving an automobile for once, and not your high horse. . "Your "fellow" Americans? You are not Richard Nixon. You are not even Daffy Duck (apologies to Daffy.)
Actually, "hummus" is spelled with two 'l's, moron. Rather than focusing on my use of the first person plural, perhaps you could have focused on the intent and meaning of the message. You are probably one of those dimwits that focus all your attention on the Casey Anthony trial rather than the issues that drive your day-to-day existence. Don't like my message? That's great... go ahead and save the world with YOUR money. Oh, and by the way, here in America we call it TOILET paper; not lavatory paper. Your ignorance and culture (obviously non-American) is telling, d0uchebag!
I strongly agree that we should not be the policemen for the world or the worlds food provider..I'm 65 yrs old and had to apply for social sercurity earlier then I wanted. I don't have a nest egg to fall back on..But I strongly believe that no child should be punished for the sins of thier father..How can so many people be outraged at the tragic death of cayle anthony.A death that no one had the power to prevent remain silent at the sounds of a child dying from starvation. I will reach into my own pocket and send what I can..Not because it's the right thing to do but because it's the human thing to do..No child should suffer such a slow painfull death
Scientific fact, a population will expand to the limits of its food supply.
Unfortunately, interfering with the situation will likely end up increasing overall suffering in the long run. these people will have as many children as the food supply will allow. Sending in food aid will only assure that the population will continue to grow and create an even greater need that the local resources will not provide. The western world looks on other cultures with a viewpoint that is distorted by our experience. pushing our way of life on others does not always yield good results.
wow,another country in africa begging for handouts from the world. i have been seeing these ridiculous "emotional" images for the past 4 decades of my life on tv. every year it's the same old story! WORLD to AFRICA: get your act together and stop begging. have some pride and use your brains because you were born with one. 50 years of begging isn't a cause anymore. it's become your profession.
Why do these people keep on breeding and getting more and more babies? Don't they have some idea that maybe they shouldn't have 10 kids for each woman?
why UN did not take action and they should have a resolution and ask all NATO countries to provide aids to East Africa.
This is a much bigger diaster involving over 10 Millions Civilians. All the funding spend in Libyan should be spent here
if western countries are really concern about the civilians.
The news is biased in such a way that it makes me think the best way for terrorism to defeat America and the West is probably not by AK47 or suicide bombers, but to send into their countries, one country at a time, millions and millions of refugees and desperate people from slumps around the world , via boat, foot, bicycle, ect. If they can all arrive simultaneously into US, the humanity crises will destroy the country, one country at a time.
Just let them be This is natures way of birth control The fact is there a too many people for the land to support and something has to give Kenya should close its borders to these people Once these muslims are let in will they go home again or will the camps become breeding grounds for terrorism Why dont the other muslim countries in the region take them in or help feed them
The children of the world are hungry. Because I live in the U.S. I will never have to know what it is like to see a young child die of hunger. The conditions in other countries are so bad the people struggle to just get clean water and a safe place to sleep. Unless you have visited a developing country you cannot understand what it is like to live in the heat, filth, and unsanitary conditions. They live in a permanent Horrible camping trip that never ends. They do not have cars, bikes, running water, electricity, extra clothing, washing machines, radios, TV, etc. We are lucky because we have running water in a solid home. To fully understand live like they do for 1 month, but to fully understand take enough food for only one day, go in your back yard and pitch a tent (at this point you are living better than many of them), walk to the nearest creek, river or lake to get water in a bucket, cook with wood you gather and sleep on the ground. This will help you understand the suffering of the innocent children. They need the support and love of people from around the world. If you are like me you have more than you use daily. We can afford to help others.
Here is a second idea try to walk a mile in their shoes. If you have two or more children...try to picture this; you only have enough food to feed two people, you must make a decision who gets food and who doesn't. You may be tempted to say yourself...but if you die both of your children will surely die. So think long and hard about it....the older child may survive on the street by stealing food, or working for people and earning food, or may be exploited by others and sold as slaves. The younger child is too young to go out on their own. If you withheld food from the little one he or she will perish sooner. THIS IS AN IMPOSSIBLE situation but people in Kenya face it daily. We are blessed because in the U.S. we don't have to face such a thing. It is easy to say let them change their situation. They would change it if they could. I am sure each and every person in the refugee camp will be happy to come to the U.S. and live in our worst poverty because it will be huge improvement over their life today.
You may not have the resources to feed, cloth, education, etc. But small organizations around the world are helping to supply food and clean water, other housing (tents), others education and others training together they will make a difference. But there will be NO Future if they do not receive clean water and nourishing food today, they will surely die of hunger related illnesses. My ancestors came for other countries to escape various forms of suffering, many times leaving behind the weaker or older family members. We have a great country and care for many people around the world.
If you need help you will turn to a friend or family member and expect them to help. If your request and need is reasonable and your family or friends can help, they will probably help you. These people cannot call upon their friends because they are in the same situation. They are all living day by day and hoping and praying that they survive another day.
All charities, government agencies and churches should be evaluated by the person making a donation, if you don’t agree with their practices, pay, mission, operating style, find another organization. That is what freedom is all about. Nobody wants war, but everyone wants freedom, I look forward to the day when we have freedom without war. . Living without hunger.
Why talking, you can act now – start to bring whomever you want to help into America, or into your own home no matter where you live, and the community will feed them and give them a better life for generations to come. If all poor people went to USA (millions and millions in India/African slumps, many times more than all USA citizens added up together), there will be no hunger in the world. and more importantly no obesity in the US. end hunger is not a saying to make other tax payers feel guilty, have you learnt that human are greedy (with or without food) and will never feel guilty. They need to be forced like what they do in China, there need a system to bring poor people from all over the world into US tax payers' homes to share their food.
"Because I live in the U.S. I will never have to know what it is like to see a young child die of hunger."
You do not get out much. There are many people dying from hunger in the US.
"We are lucky because we have running water in a solid home."
Are you bonkers, implying that there are no homeless in America?
"to fully understand take enough food for only one day,"
Here you just split an infinite, an unforgivable grammatical error. Where do your really live? It is certainly not in the US.
"If you are like me you have more than you use daily. We can afford to help others. "
Just who is the "we" in your sentence? You certainly do not speak for me. You are not from any State in the Union.America has all of the problems you enumerated above, and American blood is just as red as any other. Charity starts at home.
Man thats crazy that you did that can you believe it only takes that long to promote the gospel.