This Makes My Heart Hurt

This is just plain wrong. I don't really know what I can say about this. These people are sent to these places to HELP people, to bring RELIEF, and GOOD to people who are needlessly suffering and neglected. And what are they doing? They are bringing PAIN, SUFFERING, HURT, and so much BAD into these people's lives. They don't deserve to be treated like that, no one does. The people sent to HELP are simply called PEACEkeepers...and that isn't what they are doing. This is terrible, my heart hurts for those so innocently and rudely VICTIMIZED by these "PEACEkeepers."

Now this isn't saying that every UN peacekeeper engages in these terrible acts, but it also doesn't specify that those not involved in the acts are doing anything to stop their co-workers. To me, it seems, that they are standing by and watching it happen (or they are simply nieve, which I don't think is very likely).

This makes my heart hurt.

Rock On Clooney, Rock On

This man gets it. He knows that this is a big big world and we need to make a difference, and we can make a difference. He found what he wanted to do and he did it. Kuddos. Kuddos.

Delivering Relief in Kenya

This BBC article is a diary from an aid worker in Kenya right now. It's pretty eye-opening what he is describing aout the happenings in that country after the unrest that has occured after the recent rigged Presidental elections. Check it out.

Sudanese troops fire on U.N. convoy in Darfur

U.N. officials say soldiers apparently mistook group for rebels

A Sudanese driver was critically injured in the shooting on the supply convoy, which destroyed a fuel tanker truck and damaged an armored personnel carrier, protected by South African peacekeepers, which occurred late Monday near Sudan’s volatile border with Chad, the U.N. mission, known as UNAMID, said in a statement.
A U.N. peacekeeper stationed near the site of the attack said a Sudanese army unit apparently mistook the South African peacekeepers for Darfur rebels who also operate in the area.

That saddens me too. It just goes to show you that we are all the same and who is to say there is any difference between me and my brother, whether black, white, poor or rich, Wouth African, Sudanese, or American. The tribal differences are so minute in that country that people are often mistaken for being in a different group than they are. This time it was some innocent people who were only there to offer aid, to help, to show love to the people in Darfur who are so deserving of it and need love more than you or me. I would continue to help; and that is just what they are going to do.

The Current Kenyan Crisis

Here, where I live, if somone's preferred candidate loses a political race of somekind, no matter how/why they lost, we get upset, we show dissapointment; but never this. Kenya recently had national elections for a new President. Nearly 300 people have been killed in a clash of ethnic violence in the country in only a week since the elections, which are claimed to be rigged. msnbc.com described the events as "violence that has killed 300 people and displaced 100,000 in what was once lauded as among the most stable democracies in Africa." That is sad, not only that it is such violence and so many people are being hurt, killed, and negatively effected, but also that Kenya, once considered to be a stable democracy in Africa (which in itself are few and far between) is now expierenceing the atraucities similar to it's fellow African counrties, the Sudan and Rwanda, for example. BBC is claiming that over 180,000 people have been displaced due to this violence and over 350 have been killed. The UN's World Food Programe is despertaly trying to provide food for the 100,000 displaced people in the Valley Rift Area alone.

The church needs to step in.

These people desperatly need to be shown some love.

I don't know what I can do.




Here is a video of the violence. It is devestating.

Here is a article I read about the subject that got it on my mind, again. And here is another.

Three food aid drivers killed in Darfur: Men were delivering for U.N. World Food Program in war-torn Sudan region

They were just trying to help.


The article said they don't even know the identity of the attackers.