Hi!

Lenward & I would like to know how to send a donation to help Somalia - regarding NBC new report by Brian this week. Dab. Kenya.

Thanks!

Alma Daniely

Please send address or 800 # to send donation to Kenya>

Proverb: If you nourish your enemy he will grow strong. He will think you a fool and plan ways to destroy you.

We all have to answer to our book of life and will be judged. Heaven wont be crowded as we see many have pure hate in their hearts.

Please give information where a donation can be sent.

hola, robert, if the militants in somalia had farm lands that were getting watered and animals to tend to, they wouldn't have time to be militants, farming and animal husbandry are full-time jobs. some of our army personnel in afghanistan are showing the rural tribal elders how to dig a few deep wells vs. many shallow wells since that water is ground water that contains bacteria and can be used for crops but not for drinking water for animals and humans. i wonder how deep the aquifer is in somalia. and it is on the coast, the army also has technology for making salt water drinkable. getting food to the people dying from the famine is the first step, but the drought needs to be dealt with. heifer international gives farm animals to rural peoples from donations to their foundation so that they have a livelihood but you have to have water first. i cannot find the notes i took on a world organization that does research for third world country animal husbandry, i'll have to keep looking, the gentleman whose site i pulled up was based in kenya. thanks for the photos of the refugee camps. best, anna martina

google is great, i found it, it is ILRI, International Livestock Research Institute, part of the Consultative Group on Interational Agricultrual Research (CGIAR), one of their latest outputs and highlights on the site is 'Best ways to manage response to recurring drought in Kenya's drylands'. and they have another article on climate change.

My daughter is an asylum advocate for homeland security and spent May and June there doing interviews. She said the sad thing was there are criteria that has to be met to gain US asylum and starving to death isn't one of them. While it is understandable it was still very sad.

Anna, you hit an excellent point. My exact thought when I was there was wondering how to empower these people to help themselves. Obviously, immediate needs such as food, and shelter can only be provided from the outside, but if that could be backed up with some infrastructure support then that would go a long way to help these people dig themselves out of their horrible situation. Unfortunately another big obstacle is where to put these people. With the threat of Islamic militancy, there is a lot of political resistance in mostly Christian Kenya to allowing these people to settle permanently.

Thanks for contributing!

r.

Yes, Wally, it's unfortunate indeed, and yes, understandable. I'm sure your daughter faces immense challenges and great personal heartache doing the job she does. I wish her the best of luck and thank-you for contributing.

Robert.

glad that you, ned and your other 2 co-workers were released when you were captured in fallujah. that must have been crazy. i wonder why some people say president obama is a muslim if kenya is mostly christian, go figure. when things are so dire, sometimes a great miracle happens, i am hoping that those deep aquifers fill up with water so that deep wells can be dug and yes, for the militants, too, so that they have better things to do than what they are currently doing. maybe it will even start to rain in somalia and kenya, stranger things have happened. i'm glad that journalists exist so that those of us in our comfy homes can learn of such utter devastation and the other ills in the world. i may be poverty level in america, but i am VERY comfy compared to what you have been witnessing during your trip. i am glad to be able to help my poor relatives in agua prieta who don't have heat in the winter or a cooler in the summer because they can't afford it. i was glad to be able to give my tia a down blanket on extreme clearance, a down coat, same thing, a pair of faux shearling lined ugg-style boots and lots of flannel sheets so that i didn't have to worry about her freezing. that would not be good! all of this makes you wonder what the somalians and kenyans have buried deep in their brain dendrites that someone is doing their best to not let it get out, some wonderful new technology, i'm sure. that seems to be the way that it works, even in america with the inescapable cage that poverty level is. best, anna martina

i am sitting on all of these tree-ripened peaches off of the trees i planted in the late 90's. i sure wish i could get them to those children in somalia and kenya, of course, since they are organic, they would be mush on day 2. rats. i am peeling, slicing and putting them up with fruit fresh in the freezer for future smoothies and peach cobblers. those natural fruit alpha hydroxy acids would do wonders for their tummies! i wish i could freeze dry them like camping meals and send them! like dried apricot slices or dried prunes.

Thanks Anna. Yes, we were very lucky in Falluja. Our work has it's rewards, but it comes with some risk. And yes, dried fruit made available to starving people might be a great thing and you might be on to something. Perhaps you could consult with an aid group and make it happen! :-)

Thanks Robert and guys it's so easy. Go to United Nations site click on UN Refugee Agency and just donate what you can. The site gives you so much information and it's safe. Every little bit helps and again thanks Robert for the information.

hola, robert, if the gang kids in the u.s. are painting colliding universes in their graffiti without knowing it, and now they're in the prestigious art museums and getting $7,000 for a piece of art 2' x 2', my guess is that those somalian islamist militants and all of the children might be painting the missing mass in the universe if they did art. i have lawrence krauss' book, 'quintessence: the mystery of missing mass in the universe'. lawrence is at asu now,my alma mater, finance degree. he is the author of 'the physics of star trek'. i have painted backgrounds that turned out to be actual dusty nebulas, i did a painting which turned out to be inflation of the universe after the big bang and black body radiation, before i knew about those things. egads. and i painted the microwave background of the universe. that was the background of a cow skull. which makes me think of the dead animals in somalia and kenya that have died from thirst, a horrible death, i'm sure, those poor children, a painful death, i'm sure. dark energy, a very teeny, tiny bit goes a long, long way. you know those pictures that show the world at night from space, and africa is a dark void, enough energy to light up the entire continent, is my guess. obviously, i have the horn of africa on my mind, egads! i did art therapy with the juvies at mary's mission, here in town, for awhile, VERY interesting, yep, i'm one of those really crazy people that use both sides of their brain. best, anna martina