Comments on: In the face of famine

By: Cisbelia

Cisbelia — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:17:38 +0000

thank you for shraing.
we need more people doing this publishing.

Coming from Africa, I too starved. My mom didn’t even had corn flour to feed me and my two younger sisters. It is really sad that kids struggled against obesity in one part of the world and african children died from the lack the basics…food.
“Do as little as you can, even though you think it’s not much”

By: Authena

Authena — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:19:34 +0000

Back in the 1980s when Ethiopia was hard hit by drought, I worked for World Vision. It was hard to see these images. Now, I am still hit with them and I do attempt to help when I can, but many in the USA are without work and on food subsidy. I feel so bad for them. Sometimes the food never gets to these precious people.

By: veisa

veisa — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:44:25 +0000

Thank you for posting these pictures and your thoughts.
It is hard to understand how things like this can happen when we have all the tools at hand to avert them.
In the last 100 years we have developed exponentially in the fields of technology, computer science, and engineering yet at the same rate neglected the growth of ethics, common sense and wisdom.
I wish our kids could get a scholarship for outstanding ethics instead of sports.

By: Anuja

Anuja — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:05:41 +0000

I’m glad you decided to write it down and share. I have been through certain days when I saw pictures that weren’t maybe gruesome but so hard hitting, as if the picture spoke to that person inside of me who I have draped with a cover of insensitivity that we don when in news.. and leave behind such helplessness, and then some anger somewhere over the next opulence we indulge in.

By: vivpix

vivpix — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:49:45 +0000

Thanks for sharing this, Gil. And it’s right for us to feel something from time to time.