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Press Release:

Saving children in southern Somalia must be first priority

More than a million children in need of life-saving interventions


NAIROBI, 29 July 2011 - With an estimated 1.25 million children across Southern Somalia in urgent need of life saving interventions and 640,000 acutely malnourished,

UNICEF called for all actors to make saving children's lives the top priority, and to urgently support all efforts to reach children in need.

"The children of Southern Somalia desperately need our help. Too many of them have already died and many others are at great risk unless we act now," said Rozanne Chorlton, UNICEF Somalia Representative. "Families shouldn't have to leave their homes... mothers and their children shouldn't have to endure days of perilous journey in search of food and water, and then face a life of uncertainty in a camp."

"All our energy should be focused on saving lives."

To reach children as quickly as possible, UNICEF, along with its partners, has mounted a massive scale up of its operation and is using all avenues available to get supplies into the region. So far this month, the child rights' agency has brought in enough supplementary feeding supplies for 65,000 children in the drought affected regions of Southern Somalia. These supplies are being distributed by partners on the ground.

(For further information, please visit http://www.unicef.org )

Music featured in this video is an extended remix of the Michael Jackson song... Will You Be There


Donations:

World Food Programme

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Save the Children

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Médecins Sans Frontières

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CARE International

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World Vision

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unicef

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Plan International

http://plan-international.org/what-you-can-do/emergency-appeals/east-africa-a...

Oxfam International

http://www.oxfam.org/en/emergencies/east-africa-food-crisis#donate

Islamic Relief Worldwide

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It is imperitive that all of Humanity everywhere take a look at this picture and begin to see that worldwide hunger and thirst, lack of medical attention, lack of the basic necessities humans need in order to sustain life be addressed.  Look to your own backyard, your community in which you live and donate, Please!!!  When we begin to give in our own communities, even if it is one dollar or a can of food, a bag of clothing to your local Food Pantry, We begin addressing this outrageous act against humanity....Let This Be Our Living Prayer!!!!

A'HO!

UNICEF - GIVE THANKS FOR WHAT WE HAVE

In Praise of Water

Let us bless the grace of water:

The imagination of the primeval ocean
Where the first forms of life stirred
And emerged to dress the vacant earth
With warm quilts of color.

The well whose liquid root worked
Through the long night of clay,
Trusting ahead of itself openings
That would yet yield to its yearning
Until at last it arises in the desire of light
To discover the pure quiver of itself
Flowing crystal clear and free
Through delighted emptiness.

The courage of a river to continue belief
In the slow fall of ground,
Always falling farther
Toward the unseen ocean.

The river does what words would love,
Keeping its appearance
By insisting on disappearance;
Its only life surrendered
To the eventF of pilgrimage,
Carrying the origin to its end,
Seldom pushing or straining,
Keeping to itself
Everywhere all along its flow,
All at one with its sinuous mind,
An utter rhythm, never awkward,
It continues to swirl
Through all unlikeness,
With elegance:
A ceaseless traverse of presence
Soothing on each side
The stilled fields,
Sounding out its journey,
Raising up a buried music
Where the silence of time
Becomes almost audible

Tides stirred by the eros of the moon
Draw from that permanent restlessness
Perfect waves that languidly rise
And pleat in gradual forms of aquamarine
To offer every last tear of delight
At the altar of stillness inland.

And the rain in the night, driven
By the loneliness of the wind
To perforate the darkness,
As thought some air pocket might open
To release the perfume of the lost day
And salvage some memory
From its forsaken turbulence
And drop its weight of longing,
Into the earth, and anchor.

Let us bless the humility of water,
Always willing to take the shape
Of whatever otherness holds it,

The buoyancy of water
Stronger than the deadening,
Downward drag of gravity,
The innocence of water,
Flowing forth, without thought
Of what awaits it,
The refreshment of water,
Dissolving the crystals of thirst.

Water: voice of grief,
Cry of love,
In the flowing tear.

Water: vehicle and idiom
Of all the inner voyaging
That keeps us alive.

Blessed be the water,
Our first mother.

~John O'Donohue~

It is my fervent prayer and hope that we all can
assist in alleviating world hunger and lack of water.
It all begins with one small, simple step. Giving.
Giving from the Heart...as in one can of food, or
one gallon of water to your local food pantry or
by finding an online site who contributes to
Third World Countries. We stand poised on the
brink of creating huge change in our world, on
this our Planet......what say you? The time for
sitting on the sidelines is over...it is time to roll
up our sleeves and assist those in need. As I
watched this video my physical being cried out
in pain for these souls who have nothing...least
of all hope for a better tomorrow, much less
future. We can change it...we must change it.

A'HO!!!