Heartsick

Don't just read the news...imagine yourself in their shoes. How about being the doctor with lifesaving food standing at the scales with hundreds of hungry mothers and children lined up to see you, only to have to be the one to tell the mother in front of you that her limp, bony little starving child isn't bad enough today to receive help...to come back when she's worse. How about being that mother watching your child waste away before your very eyes and being absolutely helpless, resourceless, totally unable to do anything about it.

This news story is about the area that Hanna is from:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0627/p01s08-woaf.html

From another article abut UNICEF providing aid:
"This is still short of the 75,000 children classed as severely malnourished in southern and eastern Ethiopia, where the next major harvest is not expected until at least September."

Hanna is from southern Ethiopia. Hanna's extended family is still living in southern Ethiopia.

This is from back at the beginning of June:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/world/africa/7444753.stm

And here are some photos from a photojournalist. They are very intense.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/06/ethiopia_in_food_crisis_once_m.html


Dear friends of our just lost their 4 year old son in an accident. I have heard a mother wail in intense grief for her lost child. What must the collective sound be that is coming from Ethiopia into God's ears? Can you hear it too?

see the previous post on what you can do...