The present situation of hunger in africa is presently alarming particularly within the sub-saharan Africa. This is chiefly due to the effects of lack of rains for some months thus leading to poor yields. With this, the local population and animals are starving and leading to numerous deaths. What place has the local community in the improvement and prevention of this problem. Thank you.
210156
It would be nice if they could set up irrigation techniques like we have, so that when there is a drought the crops and animals can still have water. This could be connected to local streams,ponds, lakes and rivers so as not to cost for the water itself. Stock piling feed on a yearly basis for the animals in a dry place so that is kept viable is a good thing, kind of like a feed savings account for when times are tough. Another reason why they are having so much trouble is that alot of adults are sick or dying from aids and other diseases. There needs to be a major campaign initiated over there to prevent the preventable illnesses. Vaccinations, and education to teach prevention. I often watch the learning channel and I am disgusted at what is happening in Africa that doesn't have to be, especially since other parts of Africa are just as well off as we are over here in the states, it makes me wonder why the government doesn't step in with a plan.
635814
Just makes you feel better.  Ethiopia has had a famine and coincidentally a civil war.  Each side keeps burning the fields in destroying the irrigation systems of the other.  Relieving each side from having to buy food lets them buy more weapons.  Giving them money for food is the same as buying them guns.
359390
I am already involved in the sudanese genocide in Dufor.It really broke my heart to see the story.\n\nOver a million blacks have been forced from their homes by Arab militias backed by the government, into camps if they aren't raped/killed on the way as tens of thousands have been. Now, the rainy season is coming which will worsen the sickness and malnutrition already rampant in the camps and make it tougher for aid to get in.\n\n I have sent a small but helpful donation.I wish I could go there and do some hands on help...especuially with the children who are homeless and in trouble.\n\nA big thank you for posting this and making others aware!!!
313473
We do. But this but is big one.\nMany of the places that have starving masses today are not caused by the lack of food or water. BUT by man. A person wants to take over and there are to many people that are getting in his way so cut off the food It would bring the strongest man to his knees. To see how this works look up Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and  Pol Pot.
525168
Try this link:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa
40322
im sorry,couldnt be of much help.Im denis.i live in Africa,in Uganda,way below Morocco but since little is provided online i guess i'll refer you to the link below and hope it is of some help...ciao\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco
477448
I must admit this has puzzled me greatly over the years. Seems we give and give when countries suffer natural or man-made disasters only to have them turn around and spit in our face. Doesn't seem right.  That's why I choose to only donate to the local rescue mission. It helps men and women who have made wrong choices in their lives get back on their feet. I don't mean to be insensitive to the terrible tragedies that befall the rest of the world, but maybe we should concentrate on helping in our own backyard more often.
647736
I've a catering company.  I donate all my left over food to local charities.  I cook for local organizations who feed and help the poor and the homeless.  I donate online and click on for www.worldhunger.org everyday to fight for hunger around the world.  Back home I donate to local charities regularly to help them feed the poor children and care for the orphans.
675601
Cars crash all the time? Try thinking what if all the people suffering around the world felt better, were happy and no longer suffering? Maybe think about what If all the people in Africa had food and weren't starving? try that and see what happens.
129897
Good on you for being there for the people that might not have the strength to be there for themselves. Of course it´s easier to help if the issue of concern is close to you but I do hope that people of "the West" don´t forget about the rest of the world and how much we ca do there. That shit about God´s punishment just make me angry. I´m doing my bit - I´m most probably heading to Africa in a year to help with this issue.
306165
Are you talking about North Korea? A vast prison full of the half-dead? If we gave Kim Jong Il enough food to feed everyone in the country, he'd sell half of it to raise cash to buy more mischief. That is an extreme example, but the principle applies: if you can't give food directly to the people without first going through some crooked agent, your charity will be turned against you.  \n    One of the biggest causes of 3rd (and 4th) world poverty and hunger, besides tyrrany or corruption, is agricultural subsidy. The U.S., Japan, and Europe are the most notorious culprits of this market distortion. If the so-called 1st world would remove subsidies to their farmers, the price of certain foodstuffs, such as yams, will triple. \n     Yams are highly cultivated in Africa, and if the global food trade were liberalized, that continent would reap a benefit in the form of new farm profits, of $70 billion, in the first year alone. And maybe some poor farmer from Ghana won't have to swim through shark infested water to get to the Canary Islands and find a good job, so he can make enough money to buy a tractor to feed his family better. Maybe he could make his own tractor.
371229
Here's a thought, why don't you go study up on a few countries who's citizens really suffer. Here's one for you to get started on : Darfur. It's citizens are being slaughtered. Why do you feel that Mexico and it's citizens are suffering so badly when genocide is still going on in other countries? Maybe you should get out of the town you live in and find out what suffering really is.
154623
I don't know what's available in your area, but in mine there are soup kitchens, shelters, outreach programs...  One of the churches here even provides the homeless with a directory of what's available, with hours of operation and what to expect when they go in.  There are a lot of people who are concerned with this issue.  If you look, you may be surprised to see how much is available.
578679
I don't think that the idea that God is utilizing famine in Africa as population control can be applied to just that single case. What about the Holocaust or the famine under Stalin's rule? Wouldn't that also be the will of God? Would those events be categorized as 'population control,' too?\n\nAnd how is God all-knowing, if we are given free choice? Free choice means that you are free to do as you please, but doesn't God already know what you're going to do?
392246
God does not let children starve, because of sin in our land, we have starvation. " If my people which are called by my name would humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, I'll forgive their sins, and heal their land."  There in lies the remedy for starvation and anything else that ails us, it's because of sin, and unless sin be mortified, we will always have situations that make it look like God doesn't care, but he has given us the remedy for all manner of famine and disease.  When are men going to start applying it to their lives.
344282
I have a great friend who lives in Kenya. I would love to be able to visit there. I had the opportunity to go but didn't have the money to make the trip. Our church is actually helping to get wells put in there. So far there are 2 we want at least 2 more.
575386
Buffets are just labor-saving devices to have less waitstaff. Famine is always a transportation problem, not a lack of food problem.