16-03-2017, 08:55 PM
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Famine in Africa
Africa is on the cusp of a another terrible famine.In Somaliland three years of drought have killed off all the livestock and reduced the fields to desert.
In South Sudan people are already dying from lack of food and years of conflict .Ther UK has allotted millions in aid but the authorities make it difficult to deliver charging £8000 per head for aid workers to bring in the aid Forbes to its own suffering people.
In Nigeria people are dying in the NE where Boka Haram holds forth .
Then there is the Yemen where people are starving and dying .
The British government has offered to match pound for pound every pound raised by the DEC who are launching an appeal .
Here is the link
https://www.dec.org.uk/?gclid=Cj0KEQ...idoaAv518P8HAQ
16-03-2017, 09:36 PM
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Re: Famine in Africa
Africa is a charity money pit, we have been throwing money at the Horn of Africa since 1984. If the millions upon millions of pounds, the millions of tons of food and medical supplies had not ended up funding and feeding the local warlords and gone into where it was needed then I might have had some sympathy and put my hand in my pocket again. I am suffering from charity overload, looking at the face of yet another starving child, or one scrapping water from a infected pool does nothing for me anymore.I will now standby for yet another plea from a minor 'celeb' who will be videoed walking sadly around another refugee camp before being whisked back to his 4 star hotel in Dar es Salamm for his/her 4 course dinner.
I can but hope that Saint Bob of Geldof will not bring out another record and abuse me on the tv...
16-03-2017, 10:10 PM
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Re: Famine in Africa
Originally Posted by Rehab44
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Africa is a charity money pit, we have been throwing money at the Horn of Africa since 1984. If the millions upon millions of pounds, the millions of tons of food and medical supplies had not ended up funding and feeding the local warlords and gone into where it was needed then I might have had some sympathy and put my hand in my pocket again. I am suffering from charity overload, looking at the face of yet another starving child, or one scrapping water from a infected pool does nothing for me anymore.I will now standby for yet another plea from a minor 'celeb' who will be videoed walking sadly around another refugee camp before being whisked back to his 4 star hotel in Dar es Salamm for his/her 4 course dinner.
I can but hope that Saint Bob of Geldof will not bring out another record and abuse me on the tv...
We, and other countries in the West, have been pouring money and other aid into Africa for decades now.
Have things improved?
Apparently not. Why?
As you send more and more aid, African people have more and more children who they cannot feed.
You can not beat nature.
16-03-2017, 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Rehab44
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Africa is a charity money pit, we have been throwing money at the Horn of Africa since 1984. If the millions upon millions of pounds, the millions of tons of food and medical supplies had not ended up funding and feeding the local warlords and gone into where it was needed then I might have had some sympathy and put my hand in my pocket again. I am suffering from charity overload, looking at the face of yet another starving child, or one scrapping water from a infected pool does nothing for me anymore.I will now standby for yet another plea from a minor 'celeb' who will be videoed walking sadly around another refugee camp before being whisked back to his 4 star hotel in Dar es Salamm for his/her 4 course dinner.
I can but hope that Saint Bob of Geldof will not bring out another record and abuse me on the tv...
16-03-2017, 10:31 PM
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Re: Famine in Africa
Originally Posted by Muddy
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The sad fact is it is the old , the woman and small children who are dying.The men are dead or away in conflict.
If the world does nothing they will die.
16-03-2017, 11:03 PM
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Re: Famine in Africa
The simple truth is that the more we contribute, the more will die.Yes, I know it sounds illogical, but I am convinced it is true. The more we contribute, the more they breed. Each generation increases the population and, because resources are finite, more die.
The proof is there to see.
As I said earlier, we have been contributing for decades. Has the situation been resolved yet?
No. It never will be.
16-03-2017, 11:20 PM
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Re: Famine in Africa
I'd kind of go with Rehab and JBR on this.I mean, how many times have people contributed for water pumps / wells and the like?
Ffs, by now there should be a water pump every 30m!!
Where do these funds actually go in reality?
Sorry, but I think we have to leave these countries to sort themselves out - especially while we still have our own on the streets!
I used to work with / get involved with Somali's a great deal as well.
Sorry to say it how it is, but most of them were downright bloody crooks who could not be trusted quite frankly.
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