Two months ago Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched our “Starved for Attention” campaign on childhood malnutrition. We released seven short films that document how malnutrition is affecting the lives of and futures of 195 million children around the world. Alongside the films, we launched a petition drive aimed at rewriting food aid policy.
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What can we do to help change US aid policy, besides signing a petition? Are you planning to bring constituents to Members of Congress?
While this questions refers to governments and not DWB, but what is being done, and still needs to be done, about cutting through the beaurocracy to ensure food and aid is delivered ASAP, as soon as it is donated, then delivered directly to the people who need it? What can DWB folllowers and supporters do? Ex: the food and aid seen on tv sitting on the ground of Haiti and wasn’t delivered due to red tape. Thanks.
I have seen so many bags of foodstuff from USAID all over Africa.
Would it not be better to spend the money and efforts to make people capable to grow their own food locally, before things end up in crices and hunger?
What about introduction of biochar and clean, efficient cookingstoves based on pyrolysis, to improve the soil, reduce the diseases and injuries related to harmfull smoke and burns from open fiers.
I also noticed that well fed people was not so affected by malaria as the poor people from the villages.
After spending around five years in malari infected areas of Africa I have until now not suffered from malaria attacs, thanks to using a mosquitonet every night, I belive.
Distribute nets for free NOW and make sure people are using them!
What about the red tape of Haiti?
Children are malnourished because their parents are impoverished. I would, in fact I do, support a campaign to help impoverished people improve their living standards.
I agree with Otto Formo. I think it would be very beneficial to the people in these areas to learn how to make their own food so that they will be able to become self-sufficient. I think it would also be very empowering not having to depend on developed countries and Western nations for food aid.
I think it would be best for the people to be educated and provided mechanized agriculture than just waiting to be provided for since I think that would be more feasible since they would be not only able to produce what is enough but have an excess to sale to earn than an income which will ultimately better their lives/ health and this is the ultimate goal of the Doctors Without Borders.
I foresee some variety of revolution if this continues up, it’s possible not really a violent one particular unique, but some variety of remarkable change.