I've been raising a little money towards what I have to raise by selling my spare organic vegetables ! I've made over £19 this week - and to think I was going to have to put the surplus on the compost heap !
Matin gi matin oromo sufuria !
(I think that is the Dholuo version of the English version of the Swahili proverb 'A little and a little fills the pot !!!)
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I've just had a chat to an internet friend who has read my blog; something she said made me think of how hard its going to be when the team are in Kenya, seeing these hungry, homeless, troubled kids. I've often wondered how the aid workers and BBC reporters who got sent out to report from refugee camps and saw the starvation and misery ... how they could return to their bases and have a decent meal with what they had seen during the day on their minds. But they had to or couldn't do their jobs ... and I suspect it will horrify us as well, and we will have to do our allotted tasks too; then we will understand a little of what aid workers, reporters and others have to struggle with. But the biggest struggle is that of the poor, the homeless, the hungry ...
Michael Buerks reports from Ethiopia made such an impact on me in 1984 ... "Dawn ... lighting up a famine of Biblical proportions ..." we'd only been back from Africa for about four or five years, and had seemingly left a continent of plenty ...
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