Thursday, 7 July 2011

Ethiopia

This week it's 16years since the Live Aid concert for famine relief in Ethiopia. It raised an estimated £150 million. Today in the same country and other areas of the Horn of Africa we now see a reported 9 million people going hungry who are heading for a Relief camp in Kenya.Kenya is alleged to be suffering as well yet thousands of tourist go to this country and eat and drink well.Are these tourist oblivious to what is happening a few hundred miles away.But more importantly what did the £150 million that was raised all those years ago do did it help to provide wells for fresh water did it provide means for these people to grow their own food and provide declinations plants. Just giving them food was only a short term operation, that has come back to haunt this area of the world.

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