Our Earth: Horn of Africa Famine – Blogging for People
The numbers are staggering. Millions starving, millions more at risk.
The Horn of Africa famine crisis is an ecological crisis and a political crisis. But above all it is a humanitarian crisis. It is about more than numbers … it is about people.
It is about Eblah Sheikh Aden who with her seven children walked to Ethiopia to find food.
It is about Arot Katikov one of many children suffering from malnutrition in Lodwar Somalia.
It is about Abdi Salam and his sister Aisha whose father and mother were killed in the Somalian civil war and who walked for days to reach refugee camps.
It is about despair and hope and love.
For those who feel despair when looking at the overwhelming numbers of people in need, Mother Teresa provides some inspiration:
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop
Here is a drop:
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
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Tweet/Facebook/email the blog posts from this blogathon.
Donate if you can (see link below). Pray and send good intentions if you can’t. Spread the word. And remember another saying from Mother Teresa:
“The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.”
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Follow the 48 hours for East Africa on Twitter: #48forEastAfrica and the OxFam 48 hours Project from their web site.
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Add your $.02 to the donation so it becomes $5.02, $10.02, $100.02, $1,000,000.02 etc. Oxfam will then know which donations are from BPI Campus where we always include our own two cents.
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At BPI Campus – our Progressive agenda:
1. People matter more than profits.
• Corollary: Each person matters … equally.
2. The earth is our home, not our trash can.
3. We need good government for both #1 and #2.
In this case, “if you can’t feed 12 million people, feed just one”.
Thank you for reading and caring.
Hi Jan! Thanks so much for participating in this blogathon. It turns out that it’s gone international — a lot of people are joining the effort. I’m waiting for a report from boatsie…
Excellent. I will crosspost your diary in the 8pm Eastern hour.
Shared on Facebook and Twitter. Donation made. Everyone needs to get involved in this.
Tweeted and donated.
I donated. Please, BPI faculty and students, put in your two cents plus whatever else you can spare. People matter.
Thank you Jan, Deborah Phelan, and rb137 for including BPI in this effort.
Thanks Jan, Chrissie, and all those participating in this blogathon. I donated.
Thanks, sjterrid.