East Africa Famine

So ok, i was about to write this blog first but then i got way to much involved into the whole Norway thing and i had to blog about that and calm myself down before i wrote the equally heartbreaking blog...Recently the situation in Africa has got dire, it's been all over the news the past few days and i have literally been dying to get on a plane, got out there and help them all in this huge fight that they are going to be facing. The east of Africa has not experienced a drought or famine as bad as this since in 60 years and it's just crazy that over 10 million people are going to be affected by something like this in the 21st century! Technically we cannot fix the weather, we cannot fix the fact that at this time of the year it can get unbearably hot, even if England let alone Africa, but we can fix the situations that the people are put in, they should not have to sit around in nothing, and have to run barefoot though dirt. They should not have to be starving and drinking dirty water that makes them ill, when most of them are already riddled with AID'S and various other illnesses anyway. 25% of Somalia has now been displaced...It again makes me angry and sad, because i think about the people who have more money than they can actually handle, and it does nothing but get wasted on crap or sit in a bank all day long, even the people who DON'T have that kind of money, have more than what these people do in Africa...well if a little of that was given to these people, then maybe they would have the money to build proper houses, have clean water, food and decent health care. It's not right that people should have to live like this, we are all human beings, living under one beautiful blue sky.

The are dying under the heat of the sun, with nothing there to provide water, or food, even all the animals have died, and that will take years to get back. There is a refugee camp in Kenya, but at the end of the day that is not enough and by the time people manage to get there it is normally too late too...It's time we took action on this...

http://www.redcross.org.uk/