Starvation is probably the most outrageous of all, and Ethiopia has a long history full of massive droughts and famines. As Chances are, other than to see them in the news, none of us have been close to a situation of dramatic. Although it is likely that we have gone through the side of people who were suffering in silence and do not even realized or, even worse, perhaps look away. When you think about it, it is impossible not to feel guilty. First, because, in some ways, we are. And second, because you have too much fat in the gut as to not notice a puncture in the stomach.
Yesterday we caught a tropical storm walking around Lalibela and more that we could not take shelter under a tree. Taking advantage of the gap that remained between my back, trunk and branch, got a child wrapped in a blanket soaked well. When it got uglier, we pass through the head one of those raincoats that the West would be disposable and that this may last longer than Nelson Mandela. He said nothing. Not a word. Only occasionally raised his eyes and smiled at Bethlehem as if we had given the world's coolest bikes.
raincoats do not know how we would fit in the suitcase but certainly not enough to silence all our pangs of rich Westerners. Thus, in one of the 80 flights that have taken this year, we fantasized about what simple but brilliant ideas can make a difference in the third world. There are those that everyone knows. With a 0.7% tax all financial transactions, according to some estimates the amount needed to alleviate hunger in the world (hence the famous 0.7 has been since been a reference for any donation). Pay a salary to the children to go to school instead of begging or working, idea implementation in Mexico and copied in Africa. Microcredit for families to obtain interest-free small amounts of money but enough to buy a plow, a new type of seed or anything that allows them to build a future. And that should be out there and that you know but we do not.
Unfortunately, no we are not geniuses and we continue with our regrets and our fantasies, but we are encouraged that Muhammad Yunnus, the Pakistani inventor of microcredit, she was not very different from us before you have your great occurrence. Moreover, this professor of economics never imagined that some of the ideas he tried to put into practice in a town near the University could actually work. But now there are more than 3 million families benefited from his experiment. In his book "Banker to the Poor" which was to see in person the drama of hungry when he decided to seek new economic prescriptions are radically different from the classic. It was a contradiction to be in class teaching major theories and look out the window that did not serve to prevent something so horrible. His description of the famine that struck Pakistan is so raw so hard to forget:
"Were Hungry people everywhere. Often That They sat so still not could be one sure whether alive or dead They Were. They all look alikes: men, women, children. Children Looked like old people. Children Looked like old people. Did not the starving people chant slogans and Stock. They Simply lay down very quietly on Our Doorsteps and wait to die. There Are Many Ways for people to die, But somehow dying of starvation is the MOST Unacceptable of all. It Happens in slow motion. Second by second, the distance entre Life and Death Becomes Smaller and Smaller, Until the two are in. Such close proximity That One Can Hardly tell the difference. Like sleep, death by starvation Happens so quietly, so inexorably, one does Not Even sense it happening. "
Yesterday we caught a tropical storm walking around Lalibela and more that we could not take shelter under a tree. Taking advantage of the gap that remained between my back, trunk and branch, got a child wrapped in a blanket soaked well. When it got uglier, we pass through the head one of those raincoats that the West would be disposable and that this may last longer than Nelson Mandela. He said nothing. Not a word. Only occasionally raised his eyes and smiled at Bethlehem as if we had given the world's coolest bikes.
raincoats do not know how we would fit in the suitcase but certainly not enough to silence all our pangs of rich Westerners. Thus, in one of the 80 flights that have taken this year, we fantasized about what simple but brilliant ideas can make a difference in the third world. There are those that everyone knows. With a 0.7% tax all financial transactions, according to some estimates the amount needed to alleviate hunger in the world (hence the famous 0.7 has been since been a reference for any donation). Pay a salary to the children to go to school instead of begging or working, idea implementation in Mexico and copied in Africa. Microcredit for families to obtain interest-free small amounts of money but enough to buy a plow, a new type of seed or anything that allows them to build a future. And that should be out there and that you know but we do not.
Unfortunately, no we are not geniuses and we continue with our regrets and our fantasies, but we are encouraged that Muhammad Yunnus, the Pakistani inventor of microcredit, she was not very different from us before you have your great occurrence. Moreover, this professor of economics never imagined that some of the ideas he tried to put into practice in a town near the University could actually work. But now there are more than 3 million families benefited from his experiment. In his book "Banker to the Poor" which was to see in person the drama of hungry when he decided to seek new economic prescriptions are radically different from the classic. It was a contradiction to be in class teaching major theories and look out the window that did not serve to prevent something so horrible. His description of the famine that struck Pakistan is so raw so hard to forget:
"Were Hungry people everywhere. Often That They sat so still not could be one sure whether alive or dead They Were. They all look alikes: men, women, children. Children Looked like old people. Children Looked like old people. Did not the starving people chant slogans and Stock. They Simply lay down very quietly on Our Doorsteps and wait to die. There Are Many Ways for people to die, But somehow dying of starvation is the MOST Unacceptable of all. It Happens in slow motion. Second by second, the distance entre Life and Death Becomes Smaller and Smaller, Until the two are in. Such close proximity That One Can Hardly tell the difference. Like sleep, death by starvation Happens so quietly, so inexorably, one does Not Even sense it happening. "
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