how to STOP misery in Africa???
492223
Well, first of all, they would have to stop fighting eachother and focus on rebuilding their lands and farms and infrastructer so they can better feed everyone, and go from there. Outside help and aid can only bring them so far.  They have to become self sufficient or they will never truely end the misery.
375898
I suggest you check with American Red Cross for financial needs.  You can also pray.  Trust in others to help you get the funding by requesting donations in a cup or glass jar with a sign posted, that says: Save the Children of Kenya.  We are suffering for land needed to keep schools open for business.  Do this in two languages.  Your native language and also another language that most people are familar with in Kenya, be it English or not.  Submit pictures of the children with the school and the land plot beside them.  No smiles, but ask the children to go around with the cups requesting help.  A penny here, a penny there, and people's hearts will open when they see such children starving for love and affection and financial help with building and keeping the lot.  No matter what your government says or does, fight back with your words.  But do not take up arms against your neighbor, brother, or sister, when it is the children who need the plot.  After all else fails, and all ignorance and all fears are observed, demand resititution from the military who exerts control over your people, for your people are also mine, and yet we are like strangers from distant countries.  All of us brothers and sisters under God.  Preach the message and encourage the children to help out, but expect the people to drop some money in a cup.  This is what the Lord says through me.  You do not suffer.  You end the suffering by stepping up and acting as a leader!  You love the children, then do everything in your power to ensure they are safe and happy where they are, because one day, money shall rain from the skies like manna from Heaven, and then will you and your country be fulfilled?  Not unless you start acting today.
723418
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!!!
571858
Yup, U want die, dont you? Tell you what, think of it that way, do not ever tell me that you are the most unlucky ones on this earth, no one is, as long as they are born. You are chosen among maybe thousand of infant to be on this earth, and as long as you are not in Africa, you can get over your problems. Of course, I am not your mother, but I can advise you to make the best out of life. From what I heard, a cancer patient has more hope than you. Anyway, get conselling, and always remember, we are here for you....(well, not we as in WE, but u know, ur parents and all that...., although i have a feeling they aren't...) good luck.
229191
The main issue in Africa is tribalism.  It has caused many problems in the past and current day.  Until they are able to get past this major obstable, Africa will stay in this state of confusion and chaos.  Nothing is being done by Africans or its governments to solve this problem.
597819
There are a few good answers here, but in general many are not well-thought at all. Even Dan Rather had said it was inexcusable that the world media was focused on Bill Clinton's fling while 3 million people died in central Africa over a two year period alone. Africa's problems are immense, and perhaps that is the biggest problem: no one knows where to begin that will have any affect at all.\n\nTo be fair, President Bush has taken an initiative to begin helping those African nations that have taken steps to help themselves. This might seem harsh, sending aid to those that need it supposedly least, but in a way it is not. The countries that are in the worst shape are bad primarily because their leadership and their governing institutions are so rotten to the core that any money or aid sent to them will just be wasted or stolen or worse, and while that might make us feel less guilty it will not really help anyone (just like Live Aid, which gave most of the money raised to a genocidal and corrupt Communist government that was mass murdering its enemies under cover of a manufactured famine).\n\nIt is difficult to mobilize public support for Africa for a number of generally embarassing reasons. The continent has very few 'sexy' resources to trade so we Americans are not directly affected in our daily lives by turmoil (except for a few nations in central Africa, there is very little oil to make us pay more at the pump, we as a rule don't eat the food that they grow so we don't miss anything at the dinner table, we only buy diamonds at very rare occasions, all of the minerals are available from other sources, and for the last hundred years the migration from Africa has largely been to Europe so there is no indigenous ethnic lobby in the United States). The entire continent seems to be so mired in catastrophes of such monumental size that it looks absolutely hopeless, and even thinking of beginning any sort of radical help is completely daunting. Every time foreign armies have tried to intervene (France and England, Soviet Union and Cuba, USA in Somalia) the outcome is nothing but horror stories that would make Freddy Krueger throw up all over himself - prisoners hacked to pieces, infants have arms and legs cut off by rebels simply because they think it is fun, soldiers dragged through the streets to the cheers of little children, etc. Every time a major aid project begins, the material elements are immediately stolen and therefor nothing gets done.\n\nIf the United States is going to intervene, it will have to be with massive amounts of force and social reconstruction on every level, and it will look like colonialism. I can tell you that, from the way we are responding to the relatively benign American behavior in Iraq and the relatively weak opposition we are reacting to, WE DO NOT HAVE THE STOMACH FOR THIS!!!!!!!\n\nSometimes doing something poorly can be worse than doing nothing at all.
773280
Just do your bit to help. There are plenty of things that you can do! Help the environment. Dont just not litter and think that you just helped. Go volunteer, go overseas and be an aid worker, council people who have to put up with violence, use whatever power u do have to tell people about world problems even if it is just family or friends, they have knowledge as well and im sure they will share it with you.\n\nDO NOT be scared of terrosts. All they do is blow up cars, not buildings. George bush blows up buildings and makes himself and his buddies 500 hundred times more profit!\n\nDont listen to everything you hear, experience as much as you can and make up your own set of beliefs. \n\nStay away from processed foods, they are POISION. They make you sick in the head and in the body. Stay out of cities, yes u can make a lot of money there but the air is dirty and so are the zombies that all work there too.\n\nWhen you are old and laying on your death bed, what are u going to think? What did you do in your lifetime that you can really say u are proud of? Did you help out that poor little orphan muslim girl, whos parents were murdered or did you buy a house and have a family, than divorce become lonely and go through countless partness trying to find purity again?\n\nBecome as self sufficant as you can be? can you live of your vegie patch? How about your fruit trees? have you planted enough trees toi counteract the car u drive, the air u breath ect or do u think someone else might do it for you?\n\nMake your life an adventure! Dont do what is normal, do what u can and want to.  Do it today. Meet people who u wouldnt usually! Make your life yours!\n\n Violence is the worst form of communication, so dont use it! I hope I could help..... Goodluck finding your answers and remeber that peace MUST start from the inside.
47497
I have some info. There's alot of hungry people in africa. And perhaps if they did some work to stir up some money, then they could buy some food. They should stop bumming food off of countries that feel bad for them. either die or work. It's that easy.
996238
i always that the wordl needed a war counrtry.  that way, we could just go there and fight and not wreck houses and stuff.....................  i suggested part of Africa as its big and theres a lot of suffering going on there........we could buy part of it and help out the people at the same time.
809285
Okay well let me tell you about something you might not know. The secret shame of Africa. \n\nUse google search and type "africa" + "dry sex" into the search box. \n\nYou will find out something very shameful about Africa, something the various agencies try to keep quiet about.
653902
No one seems to have a policy, that's why so many people are suffering.\n\nTo top it all off the UN has announced it will be cutting aid to the region - that'll really help!
525695
try to contact this organisation.\nhttp://www.thebrooke.org/htdocs/Home_49.php\n\nit would be a good work to get knowledge and help on the same time the poor.
760240
Maybe when you and your fellow Westerners stop screwing Africa.
237609
noway.. its poor africa or war torn afghan..
1011067
Make everyone aware that this is not just a matter of high moral values. It is so, but it's also something that affects every person's everyday life. Don't talk to them about people starving in Africa. Talk to them about themselves being exploited in their own job, and about how that is directly connected with how people are starving in Africa. (The connection being, of course, that the whole globalised world makes people work more for less, and it makes fewer and fewer people get a decent job, and have a decent life).
353493
Sounds like a good idea in theory, but here is the problem, there are so many wars in Africa, more than I can count. If you could get every war lord, every dictator, every ruler in Africa to stop fighting, than something like that could be done. But until then good luck.  The only thing you can do is local help in areas of Africa were there is no fighting or little fighting. However these are the places in Africa there are realatively well off.  The fact is WAR CAUSES POVERTY, therefore the more war there is the more poverty there is.
448872
Your list of countries is not complete. Majority of teh countries are themselves prey of poverty and hunger. First try to remove them than think about UNO Security Council