Sauri and the new aid project

For the last 5 years, Sauri, western Kenya has become increasingly prosperous. Sachs, the leader of the program has giving straightforward programs to lift people out of poverty, such as increasing the quality of crops, and battling malaria.

The results are glorious, but the problem is the efficiency of the project on the global scale due to the political corruption in Africa.

Sachs states that another problem is America state of being anti-aid, after 9/11. When Sachs went to Yemen, a haven for Al Qaeda, he talked to the American officials about the problems there. All he got were blank answers.

Sources: http://www.christianaction.org.za/articles_ca/2004-images/thegreatestafricans01.jpg

A poverty striken boy begs for money


Poverty is all around us, even in the 21st century. The hardest hit is Africa, and data shows that:
13,500 people around the world get infected with HIV/AIDS everyday
22,000 people around the world die from extreme poverty everyday
850 million people around the world go to bed hungry everyday
1 billion people around the world live on less than $1 a day
Poverty basically means that not being able to sustain oneself to get basic needs as medication, education, shelter and food. This should not be happening, especially when the world has the ability to change it. It is just not fair for us to live such a happy life and the poor people to suffer like that.

However, it is not hopeless. There are organizations such as the World bank that lends loans to poor countries without any interest, when the country has something reasonable to say about why they need money. It is still not enough. We cannot ask the government to do everything. We have to take actions by ourselves first, and fast, before it is too late.

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http://30tocure30.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/china_poverty.jpg

Childrens' rights

The meaning of the quote above

Photo of Sir. Winston Churchill, who said the quote


The name of my blog, is from a quote by Sir. Winston Churchill. My usage of the quote isn't racist, nor is it to use to scorn America. When Winston Churchill said this quote against the most powerful nation in the world, he also warned people about something and a trend which people nearly always do: They tend to follow the elites, whatever happens. This is a big problem, because if this happens, those in power would control, and take over everything, while others are completely ignorant about this.

This concept is shown in both reality and fiction. In Fiction, George Orwell's Animal Farm shows what would happen if normal animals just follow pigs, the political elites. It results the pigs stripping animals of their rights, for the pigs' greed. The story of 1984 is the aftermath and an ironically a sequel of Animal Farm, where the political elites control all aspects of a person's life. Even his mind. These terrible situations are one of the possibilities one could face following the top mindlessly.

Even in reality, such cases exist. In the past, Adolf Hitler was able to control germans as a dictator, sacrificing millions of Germans for his ambition. In the present, the most powerful countries around the world,are allowed to do anything on other, weaker countries. Iraq was invaded by America, possibly for their own benefit, of getting more oil. Countries that are dependent to the more powerful countries are never able to escape poverty, such as Sudan, and several other countries in Africa. Therefore, even if we are to follow these countries, we should constantly caution ourselves with the rules (such as human rights) we set forth to prevent such terrible situations. With those rules, we should also consider why there are so many problems around the world, and how we can solve it.

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Photo of Winston Churchill: http://rohrbachlibrary.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/churchill.jpg