Have you been watching the news in the last few days? If so, those haunting images of starving Somali children are hard to miss.
The statistics are staggering, some 11.5 million people are in some sort of imminent starvation danger, and I believe the figure I saw last night was that some 600,000 children are on the verge of death by starvation this week.
It breaks my heart, and I remember it from my childhood...those same images, whether they were from Somali or the Sudan....I just know that the shocked sensation is familiar. There was that one image from many years ago, captured by perhaps an Nat' Geo' photographer, of a dying child collapsed in the middle of the desert with a vulture patiently waiting by its side. Do you remember that? I do, and this spring I went to a photography festival here in my town, where that photograph was referenced. The photographer committed suicide recently.
You have to wonder how reporters, politicians, photographers handle the impact of being in situations like that, so dire, where it seems there is no relief in sight. I can only imagine.
The whole situation is complicated, of course, by politics and civil war, but the fact that those who are helping currently do not begin to have sufficient resources, regardless of the challenges, is irrefutable.
It's always hard to know what one could do to help, if one were so moved. So I offer this as a resource:
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