Childhood Poverty in West Africa

I visited Save the Children website and I read and observed some heartbreaking videos and pictures concerning children in Niger, Mali, Mauritania and Burkina Faso Africa that are and have been having starvation issues for years. http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/what-we-do/emergencies/west-africa-appeal It is so sad to see children having to experience their body demonstrating because of lack of nutrition. Their bodies are under weight, deformed and shutting down because their land is experiencing a shortage of crops, clean drinking water and medicine. This is not affecting 1 or 2 million people but 18 million people in only West Africa. What is happening? Why is it so hard to provide food, water and medicine for families that are unable to provide for themselves?

Save the Children is asking for donations to aid them in their quest to reverse this disaster. They convey that, “are already reaching nearly 300,000 of the most vulnerable children and their families in west Africa with food and livelihoods support, helping prevent their situations from becoming too desperate”(Save the Children). This site provides interesting reading and related blogs to follow the crisis West Africa is dealing with. But most important they provide a link that will guide you in becoming a contributor of the Africa Appeal.

These imagines are now a part of me and will never leave my mind. I thought that children during today's times were not still experiencing the affects of poverty in such an extreme manner. I will be getting involved, becoming an advocate for Saving the Children and aiding them in their efforts to find monies and resources to help them with food, water and medicine. I hope you join me.