Think back with me to 1994. Do you remember the Rwandan Genocide? There have been movies made about those tragic events in Africa, to bring awareness to the rest of the world who always seem to have their eyes wide shut when it comes to human suffering. The suffering of our brothers and sisters. There are so many people trying to bring awareness to the events in Rwanda, but they are happening again. Not in Rwanda, but in neighboring Kenya. Kenya had a national election and it went bad. One man rigged the election to win the Presidency and another man accused him of it. There are people on both sides of the confilt, families on both sides of the confilct, tribes on both sides of the conflict and there is violence widespread throughout the country. Kenya is up in arms, neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother; they are crying out for help. Who will answer?
I read msnbc.com all day; constantly keeping myself up-to-date with the world around me. I have been following the happenings in Kenya in the past month or so, and am saddened everyday I read a new news story spilling from that country. I found these pictures and want to show you; because I believe that if everyone saw these and felt the same way I do about them, then I know this would change. Awareness, in my opinion, is crucial.
Innocent children are caught in this political fighting; schools have been closed and lives have come to a hault.
People are lining up for food donations from the World Food Programe; this, in a country, once thought to be among the most stable in all of Africa, just months before.
Churches are being burned, innocent followers of my Jesus Christ are being hurt and killed. And there are innocent children of God left behind as orphans and widows.
People, normally self-astaining people, are standing in seemingly-endless lines begging to food and clothing and other necessaties that they are used to providing for their own families.
Children are going hungary.
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