Rain is a Good Thing
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It’s been a long time since we’ve had rain in our area. The thirsty farm ponds of Kansas have been standing with mouths agape waiting for a drink. Those in our area finally got the drink they were looking for in what we call a “gully washer.” Almost 3 inches of rain in sixteen hours keeps the creeks flowing.
I can’t imagine going four years. We’ve gone 3 months and see the effects. People with sprinkler systems that had been drained for the winter had turned them back on.
Four years without rain.
In America, we would suffer, but with good leadership from the Government –like Roosevelt in the “dirty thirties” Kansas was inundated with “dust storms”- we would survive.
But imagine if we didn’t really have a government that cared or the one we had was so fractured they were trying to kill each other. (I know, with our elections coming up it wouldn’t be too hard to imagine that being the next step of acrimony for some).
In the Horn of Africa, that is exactly what is going on. Years of drought + a warring government = famine. Remember, droughts are caused by nature; famine is caused by man.
While the Horn of Africa takes a back seat to the media’s nauseating interest in the Kardashian Krazies, the lack of attention does not mean things are getting better. And don’t be deluded by reports of the “famine is over”, that things are better. It just means that someone setting in a cozy office in Rome looking at a stat sheet made the call that the famine is over. Seriously? Really? 11 million people are still starving and someone decides the crisis is over? Yes, they’ve had some rain in Somalia, but not near enough to grow enough crops to feed people.
A lot of people are doing a lot of good, but we need a lot more people to help do a lot more good. You know I’m lousy at asking people for money, but the fact is that we need more money to buy more food to send. Maybe you can make a donation and write a message through our new Messages of Hope campaign. Or maybe you or your church, business, school, or civic organization can have a packaging event?
While CNN might not be paying any attention to it or make reports that the famine is over and lead the rest of the world to believe all is well, we are watching. And they need our help more than ever.