I’m watching Anderson Cooper, and he’s in Somalia with the famine and stuff because he’s awesome and the love of my life. And before this, I was watching So You Think You Can Dance (shush).
During So You Think You can Dance, UNICEF ran a commercial for donations ($10 can save 10 kids from starvation and ended with the question: do you want a child to die from malnutrition?), and half the commercial was about Plumpynut. AC is talking up Plumpynut like nothing else. Plumpynut is awesome but not a sustainable solution… but at this point does it matter? If some Plumpynut can get a kid from acute malnourishment to regular malnourishment, then isn’t that worth it?
And every damn disaster affirms what I’m doing, but why can’t I get a job doing something to help? I’d go there in a heartbeart. Why are there issues with aid – why can’t NGOs work together – why is there so much talk but no action? Why can’t we solve these problems so we can help people better?
And Sanjay Gupta, yes, there’s no medical supplies. Go to a developing nation that’s not in a disaster situation, and you’ll find the same problems. Also, tons of kids don’t have measles vaccines (albeit a worse thing when in a disaster). And seriously? You don’t know why kids under-five have their vaccines but teenagers don’t?
