When fighting hunger and famine, there is no easy way to deliver sustainable amounts of food, nor has the fight to see that the suffering receive balanced nutrition come easy. However substancial improvements have been made, and products have been developed to better aid those suffering from malnutrition. Children no longer have to be taken […]
The world is always looking for a crystal ball…a window into the future, and the fact that we don't have one is all too often our scapegoat for not responding quickly to a crisis. “We just didn't see it coming…We just where not prepared.”, are almost infamous words in the world of international development. The […]
It can make one wonder, who is watching the children today, when you hear stories such as this one out of the Netherlands. “Children played with a high-explosive World War Two shell at a playground in the Dutch town Barneveld for months before authorities were warned and removed it, Dutch police said Sunday. The police […]
Can one truly imagine the feeling of hunger, when they have not felt the desperation and pain that it causes a child. The prolonged agony of constant hunger drives children into desperate circumstances, and it drives many to get high in order to forget the hunger that rages in their young bellies. In Nepal extreme […]
I am on vacation the week of Oct 22 and will return for normal activity the following week (10/29)
In Africa the WHO is predicting the worst meningitis epidemic in the last decade, an epidemic which is preventable and yet once which they are substantially unprepared for. It is estimated that some 80 million people, in 21 various countries, which form a region reffed to as, the "meningitis belt', could need the preventative vaccine. […]
Mea culpa. Let me just here say that I've been behind the eight ball and I will continue to try to get out and get some more posts up and running here. Big News Item: Lawmakers propose bill on global warming from the AP, was the big story from last week. Legislation introduced by Senators […]
‘-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900,1944), French aviator, author. The Little Prince, ch. 1 (1943). Children while they are continually learning, are also the worlds greatest teachers.
The death sentences against Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as “Chemical Ali,” and three others, including Ahmad al-Tai, who negotiated the cease-fire ending the 1991 Gulf War, are in legal limbo amid fears the executions could spark further sectarian violence and hamper efforts at reconstruction. The Iraqi High Tribunal sentenced the men to hang for genocide, […]
Serbia's minister for the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said Serbian officials had obstructed the investigation. Rasim Ljajic said that Serbia had in the past denied the existence of evidentiary documents, though they later surfaced and were handed over to officials at The Hague. On Monday, chief prosecutor to the tribunal Carla del […]
I need not tell you that the situation in Sudan is grave, and that for countless children their lives hang in a fragile limbo, while the world at large looks on. Hunger, disease, and violence is taking the lives of more and more children every day. Some 4 million people have been affected by the […]
U.S. immigration officials are holding a former military officer of Sierra Leone's government on war crimes charges for cooperating in the deaths of 29 dissenters there. Samuel Komba Kamba, 39, was detained following a green card interview in Texas that he attended with his wife. Kambo was twice released on bond for similar charges and […]
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