Drought In Nothern Kenya

Last night, while watching the ABC evening news, the awareness of East Africa drought busted upon my consciousness. I became emotional while listening to a reporter in the remote part of Kenya covering the ravaging drought that is affecting the Kenyan population. According to the ABC reporter, the Northern part of Kenya is experiencing one of the most tragic drought disasters in twenty years. Since pre-historic time the nomads are known to be resilient and stoic people that faced any adversity with great fortitude. But this drought is really pulling them down to destitute and abject poverty. The rest of the world is largely unaware of this drought. This year, like no any other year, many deaths are expected from this drought-ravaged region. Of greatest concern are the starvation and the malnutrition of children. It is very likely that they will not see any precipitation in the next couple of months or year. More than ever, we as a people in the rest of the world are making choices among competing and compelling demands of non-basic needs while somewhere someplace in this globe some child is dying of thirst. Even as I watched the news anchor reporting about the recent Chinese president visit in Washington, I could not picture how East Africa drought is becoming unnoticed in Bush administration. Poverty is a multidimensional problem with origin to wide array of environmental and international policies. It is really shameful at a time of such abounding prosperity in the world, a child would die due lack of water. If you want to help you can make your donation to charitable organizations website like world Vision which has a donation program for this specific drought.