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Date: 10 July 2011 15:12:48
Wow! I'm seeing things on the news that are taking me straight back to the vague memories I have of the footage in Michael Buerk's report that inspired Band Aid (I was only four or five at the time. I definitely remember the concert, but I probably saw the news footage when I was older). It's not something I ever wanted to see again; babies so weak because they had no food. At the same time we're seeing celebrations as South Sudan becomes the world's youngest nation. There is still fighting along the border (a lot more finance thanks to oil will be available in the South) but I do hope and pray that this can be can be a solution to allow people to live in harmony with one another. Whether it will be or not, we will have to wait and see...
To help in east Africa with the famine, the DEC has now launched an appeal, as have Save the Children, WaterAid and UNICEF among others.
www.wateraid.org/uk/
www.unicef.org
For Save The Children, just click on the link from the list on the right hand side of my blog.