Oxfam and Unicef are very involved in Haiti and they are doing an unbelievable work to help the people. They need our support!!

What happens to oil and mining money? That’s a question I ask myself very often. Where is the money going???

The money makes companies richer…… It’s always the same

I like the work done by this organization. They work everywhere and provide long term solutions (like the one Max quoted in her posts).

That’s weird Oxfam France didn’t want to be part of the Initiative, I don’t know why since even bigger organizations accepted right away.

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Oxfam is well known for having different position from what we are use to hear from other organizations. Like Max said:

“A major investment in tackling the root causes could work and it will cost the world far less – in money and human life – than continuing the cycle of too little, too late that has been the reality of famine relief in Africa for nearly half a century”

Why organizations don’t do that?

That’s a f_cking good question JohnnieW!!

I’m going to buy Be the Drum album

Who’s Olivia27? Her off topic comment sounds like a spam

The article about Congo is awful…….. How could the world have let such atrocities be done against defenseless civilians? I still can’t understand why we didn’t do anything, just like we didn’t do anything to end the genocide in Darfur…

Toby.

Me too, I will see with Arnold if he’s interested and we will prolly buy the album. I like Silver War a lot!

Great news, as always. Each Twitter Sunday is the occasion to learn about something new

I will follow Oxfam on Twitter.

Yull,JohnnieW,Agathen. The money always ends in the same pockets. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. And that won’t change anytime soon my friends!

I remember when I read Max’s article and the quote from Oxfam. It was a real shock to read that an organization could actually say that. But when you think about it, it’s true and it is the solution to finally ending the problem.

I’m like you Gino, I don’t understand why we don’t simply tackle the root causes of the famine instead of sending food that doesn’t last…… That’s so stupid!

Agreed Arnold.

Because it’s easier to send food than to work with people and teach them of to feed themselves. If you do that, people will never donate money. They need to see where their money goes and feeding people can be shown on video, the teaching would not be on video tape. JMO.

I think Oxfam should speak louder because what they say is right. But do they do it? Do they tackle the root causes and stopped the cycle of too little, too late?

I’ll buy the album! I like Huntingfield and Evan Wickham so much!

To answer you Gulove, I think Oxfam do what they can. People need the money so they can give food but I’m sure they would like to change that.

Besides, I think Dittta is also right about delivering food. You can easily catch that on tape, it helps people visualize where the money goes and it’s important. Without money, you do nothing..

You people are way to clever for me.

I’m going to take a beer and watch TV

Erick, that’s an interesting argument. But do you really think teaching people how to plant seeds will really help them? I mean, our ancestors learned that by themselves, why can’t they? Why do they always need help? I’m just asking….

They need help because they live in Africa, a dry continent in war for centuries. Their resources are limited. They live day after day. Must be very hard

We, people from Africa, don’t need any help. We need foreign countries stop interfering into ours. Countries like the U.S, France, England but also China and Russia make money with the poor countries in Africa and don’t care about what is happening.

They work with dictators, they get oil, diamond, wood for nothing…….. This is your responsibility and the one of our corrupted governments. We want to change that and we work hard to do so. Foreign help is needed to stop the corrupted deals and support democracy.

UNAMID is also important. We should work altogether with the same goal. Thanks for reading me!

I don’t know what to add to N’Gaye’s comment.

Well, that’s very right N’Gaye.

May our respective governments hear you. Which I sincerely doubt they will