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Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:03:49 pm
I don't mean to be a party pooper, and I know this isn't a forum for discussions like this, but I just can't help it.. The tsunami is a great disaster, and a terrible thing. But I don't think the fact that is has gotten this amount of media attention should mean that all other conflicts and disasters gets pushed away into the dark. In ONE of the conflicts in Africa, there are already more than two MILLION dead people. About 40,000 KIDS die of HUNGER every day in Africa. Not to mention HIV/Aids, where more and more people (still in Africa) get infected, suffer and die because they have no knowledge of the desease, or on how to protect oneself from it. So, give money, by all means, but please spread it around, and don't dump it all to the places that just happens to have the media attention right now because it's a good front page story. If the world community keeps it promises on what it's gonna give to the tsunami victims, they've got it covered down there for a while. Thanks for your attention.
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