www.keepachildalive.org
AIDS - I mean, with all this publicity around Rent, you'd think there would be more we could do. Go to that website, stare into the big, yellowed eyes of those children, and tell me that we are doing enough. Download "Don't Give Up Africa" on itunes. It's so depressing, disgusting. This vicious cycle. Women are raped flippantly throughout Africa. During consensual sex, Condoms hold stigma. These women have children. These children have AIDS. Families do not have enough money for medicine and education. Most children die by two and a half, but those who live often never know how to prevent it this from continuing. Sometimes, they don't even know they are infected.
They cannot afford the drugs. Their bodies fail them, and they die.
Watch the photo essay. How can we sit here at let this happen? I hear from teenagers, "We're tired of being accused of being apathetic." But I don't think it is an issue of apathy. I think it is an issue of helplessness. Short of buying stockpiles of drugs, and going to Africa, and handing each person a year's supply, everything seems too small to make a difference. Personally, my problems are minuscule comparatively, and the biggest issue I think I have currently is how to deal with my impact on the world.
I'm a vegetarian, giving up meat to make a smaller ecological footprint. I'm a feminist, trying to promote a more fair world. I'm an animal-lover, I'm a money-giver, I'm a humanist, and a tree-hugger. But I am so small in this world that no matter how many tears I cry over these issues, no matter how much pain or sympathy I feel for these people, these starving, sick people, that I will never be able to make a big enough impact to ever effect enough change to satisfy me.
But all I can think is how can we let this happen to our fellow man? There has to be SOMETHING we can do. Anything, really.
They cannot afford the drugs. Their bodies fail them, and they die.
Watch the photo essay. How can we sit here at let this happen? I hear from teenagers, "We're tired of being accused of being apathetic." But I don't think it is an issue of apathy. I think it is an issue of helplessness. Short of buying stockpiles of drugs, and going to Africa, and handing each person a year's supply, everything seems too small to make a difference. Personally, my problems are minuscule comparatively, and the biggest issue I think I have currently is how to deal with my impact on the world.
I'm a vegetarian, giving up meat to make a smaller ecological footprint. I'm a feminist, trying to promote a more fair world. I'm an animal-lover, I'm a money-giver, I'm a humanist, and a tree-hugger. But I am so small in this world that no matter how many tears I cry over these issues, no matter how much pain or sympathy I feel for these people, these starving, sick people, that I will never be able to make a big enough impact to ever effect enough change to satisfy me.
But all I can think is how can we let this happen to our fellow man? There has to be SOMETHING we can do. Anything, really.