Just Wondered as it is important....

[doobydoo]

It is completely awful what has happened in S.e.Asia i could only watch in complete horror,along with many others,on boxing day..but whilst i think the British public have been amazing donating tons of cash there are thousands of people living all over the world in extreme poverty.Places like se Asia too but also the Sudan for example.What i want to know is why does all this get brushed under the carpet?I admit i watched the Vicar of Dibley last night and they certainly rammed the message home(slightly preachy)but basically at least 30,000 people every day die from extreme poverty,HIV etc.That is 210,000 people a week.I do liken the slight hysteria toward this natural disaster(if it is as global warming probably plays apart thanks to the western world) anyway i liken this to the death of Princess Diana that sort of feeling seems to be around again.
Naturally i expect people to be cross with this posting.I am not belittling the disaster,i donated money too.Just thought i would see what you lot think.

[dietingdottee]

Just briefly skimmed through this thread. A person from Oxfam was on Breakfast News this morning covering the topics of global poverty and tsunami disaster. Here's the Oxfam link he gave.

[Jimjams]

Thanks doobydoo- I like the idea that sponsoring means taking on a longer term commitment- also think it'll be good foor ds2 to grow up knowing about it iyswim. Liked the fact that Plan seems non-religious (??? am I right about that??)

[Demon]

I watched the Vicar Of Dibley last night and was completely horrified at the end. Still have tears now. I guess from the shame of it all. Watching those two children and what they are now left to deal with and then the thought of my own two children and if they were in the same situation, the pain is too hard to even think about it. The shame comes from thinking about how much we had spent on Christmas and the sea of presents still there on the rug and how greedy we are.

I have been on the Making Poverty History and have done some of the things requested by the site. I will also get myself a white arm band and look at other ways that I can help.

If you missed the vicar of Dibley and the video clip you can see it on their site. It's the last one of the three clips.

www.makepovertyhistory.com/home.html

Sorry couldn't work out how to do links so use good old copy and paste!