it is too late for some, but it's NOT too late for all

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(baby boy saminou)


Niger's Anguish Is Reflected in Its Dying Children

ELKOKIYA, Niger, Aug. 3 - At sunset Wednesday, in an unmarked grave in a
cemetery rimmed by millet fields, the men of this mud-walled village buried Baby
Boy Saminou, the latest casualty of the hunger ravaging 3.6 million farmers and
herders in this destitute nation. At 16 months, he was little bigger than some
newborns, with the matchstick limbs and skeletal ribs of the severely
malnourished. He had died three hours earlier in the intensive care unit of a
field hospital run by Doctors Without Borders, where 30 others like him still
lie with their mothers on metal cots................ ...............Niger's
latest hunger problem, like Baby Boy Saminou's tragedy, is more complex than it
first appears. As aid begins to trickle into some of the nearly 4,000 villages
across southern Niger that need help - the vanguard of a flood of food brought
forth by television images of shrunken babies - the rich world's response to
Niger's worst nutrition crisis since the 1985 famine is, in fact, proving too
late for many. Unseen on television, however, are the shrunken infants who die
all but unnoticed even in so-called normal years. Of each 1,000 children born
alive in this, the world's second-poorest nation, a staggering 262 fail to reach
their fifth birthdays.............

how unbelievable is this? as humans how can we let this happen? even in the GOOD years they are dying in droves. please check out doctors without borders don't order that plate of fries or that extra martini. you know where to send the money instead