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Hafiidhaturrahmah
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is it enough just reducing FAMINE by WORDS?
October 27, 2008 - 05:01 AM
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Dear Friends....
I just got confiusing today.....
Its about FAMINE
Is it enough just reducing FAMINE by words?
Let open my friends blog
http://compere22.tigblog.org/post/505455?setlangcookie=true
what should we do next after we know the condition?
I understand that we still have a lot of problems to face on beside this but WAKE UP bab....here is the fact.
I need ur help friends...
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Re: is it enough just reducing FAMINE by WORDS?
October 27, 2008 - 06:50 AM
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*Hi I am new to this site, but I feel you.
We have for a long time been sitting in meetings plotting and planning on how we will eliviate hunger from the world and its occupants. in the process we have lost sight of the important issues. While we enjoy 6 or 7 couse breakfast, lunch and dinner at 5 star hotels, someone is dying because they cannot access a morsel of food to survive a few more other hours.
The sad part is that we continue to delude ourselves into thinking that the Developed nations will come to our aid, so we keep ending appeals them, when infact we should start on our own.
Im sure if the student community in our various hunger inflicted societies donated their lounch, however meager it may seem, then we would have begun the journey. If the population gave up the snacks that we survive on during the day and are even addicted to, the unnecessary pleasures in life that we treat ouselves to in the name of freedom, the waste we throw away because we do not 'like it' e.t.c. then the no. of hungry poeple will drastically reduce.
So come on people. Charity begins at home. Walk out today and help put a smile on someones face, evenif it is just a doughnut or a slice of bread. It is better than nothing.
This post was edited on: 2008-10-27 at 06:52 AM by: didola
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Re: is it enough just reducing FAMINE by WORDS?
October 28, 2008 - 10:27 PM
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I think you definitely have a point. I've always thought that what we do isn't enough. We, over here, raise money and raise awareness about it but we can never tell if it actually helps... All these issues need to be dealt with but it has become so large scale that its hard to affect it extremely deeply.
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Re: is it enough just reducing FAMINE by WORDS?
October 29, 2008 - 10:19 AM
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We hear quite number of times, reducing poverty, reducing famine and so and so. On the other side of the coin, we also hear tremendous times, let is put aside say doing this, doing this.
Why do we always change these words into tangible actions? How should we destroy this concrete wall of hesitation, to destroy every problem which affect on the global?
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Re: is it enough just reducing FAMINE by WORDS?
October 30, 2008 - 03:32 AM
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That is very true. Too much talk, not enuough action. But like i said, we have to start small and have the 'ripple effect' transfer to the rest of the world.
I think we should turn this into a global call. We should endevour to support at least one hungry person in the society. Then we will teach the how to fish rather than give them fish everyday.
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John Muhia
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Re: is it enough just reducing FAMINE by WORDS?
November 3, 2008 - 01:44 AM
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Right l all feel you guys....yes l agree and disagree with my fellow collegues that Words can and cannot eradicate famine... agencies and organizations organize conferences/summits and seminars in eradicating for famine where people meet discuse, brainstorm and waste alot of time and getting out of focus.... we need action and people should take action and not waste time in exchanging words....
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Re: is it enough just reducing FAMINE by WORDS?
November 3, 2008 - 03:45 AM
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In this discussion, I see that we all agree to act an action rather then talking; holding discussion conference, we all tired all of those things. But the big question is:
What kind of strategic plan do we really need to struggle this "taking action" against famine?
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Re: is it enough just reducing FAMINE by WORDS?
November 3, 2008 - 04:22 AM
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Thanks all for your replies in regards to famine eradication......
We need to act and acting does not call for a group of people...yes there is need for that but we should first have that sense of humour when acting....we dont have to meet and share all this instead we should get to know the strategy or the entity point of curbing this....l happen to work with a humanitarian organization in Kenya and l would like to share my experience about some parts of my country. The worst hitted areas in Kenya is the North Estern parts where a majority of the people are living in poor state depending on food aid. In order to avoid all this, agencies should look at the entity and come up with strategies of curbing all this, l mean reducing on the meetings and concentrating more on action.   
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Re: is it enough just reducing FAMINE by WORDS?
November 3, 2008 - 04:19 PM
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well i am a part of the free the children club at my school and i know a lot of people did halloween for hunger where intead of trick or treating(which is when you go door to door asking for candy) they went around asking for canned food. I think something like that is what we can start doing because its something that is totally possible and its not hard at all.
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Re: is it enough just reducing FAMINE by WORDS?
November 4, 2008 - 01:56 AM
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Gud to hear that other countries also applies the same strategy of soliciting door to door in an effort to eradicate famine. Thats a gud step from my collegue. l also happened to do a similar activity in Kenya in disater stricken areas. l personally promoted and encouraged to kick start the action of appealing for funds, food and non food stuffs for the recent post election violence that displaced more than 300,000 people in Kenya. This made my fellow kenyans, brothers and sisters to actively participate in the exercise of mobilising for resources without convening a meeting.
This is the kind of take that we need......we do less in Meetings/forums and putting the action into practice.......
My Question is; All disasters are Man Made...Do you All Agree with Me.....
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Re: is it enough just reducing FAMINE by WORDS?
November 4, 2008 - 05:02 AM
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Yes and No.
No, because even natural disasters such as floods and famines are not our mistake. they just happen.
Yes because even those floods and famines are as a result of our prior actions. Our practices are the majour causes of the natural disasters that the earth now experiences.
additionally, we are very poor at responding positively to warnings of disaster. Then when it actually happens, we panic and begin to attempt to salvage what is let.
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