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Since 1998, 4 million people have died in the Congo (aka Zaire) from hunger and disease. Half have been children. Yes, 2 million children have died because they lack food, nutrients, and basic healthcare. Approximately 1,250 people are still dieing each day.

Despite this disaster of monumental proportions, our attention is elsewhere. We’re focussed on sensationalized news stories and life within our respective bubbles.

I’m no better. I’m caught up in my day to day life, and I could be giving more of myself. But apathy should not be an excuse for ignorance, and so I want to do my part in raising awareness, even if its among the very few people who read my blog.

Quoted in the NY Times today:

“About 30,000 children have been forced into militias, while untold thousands of girls have been raped, according to the Unicef report. Children labor under toxic conditions in gold and diamond mines…

One 2-year-old boy, Amuri, struggled to breathe on a hospital bed while doctors and nurses went through the motions – attaching one of the hospital’s scarce pulse-oximeters to his tiny index finger, placing an oxygen mask over his gasping mouth. But they knew it was too late. A few moments later, Amuri’s eyes rolled back in his head, his chest stilled and he was dead. Bring something for us to wrap the boy, a nurse called out.”