I want to become educated in the genocides and injustices that are going on in Africa, and i want to know real ways that i can help, other than just donating money.
2007-09-21 16:50:28 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
There are lots of ways you can help out! If you aren't able or willing to travel, you can easily help out in your own community. Look at the websites for Oxfam, Amnesty International, UN, Unicef, etc, for your country. They may have a chapter in your city, or at least give some ideas of how you can raise money, awareness, etc, for various causes in Africa.
If you've got the money and time to travel to Africa and help on the ground there, I highly recommend doing this! You can go with various volunteer programs (Global Volunteer Network comes highly recommended and is VERY inexpensive compared to other orgs) as well as Peace Corps, CUSO, etc.
Also, take out books and documentary videos from the library to learn more about the situations. Even talking about these with friends helps spread the word. There have also been a number of feature films recently that show that side of Africa - ones I recommend are Blood Diamond, Tsotsi, Constant Gardener, Shake Hands with the Devil and Hotel Rwanda.
Good luck. This is also something I'm passionate about so I love seeing other people educate themselves about the causes. Genocide, civil war, AIDS, hunger, draught... are only a few of the many issues plaguing the African people these days.
2007-09-22 07:44:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel you man and I know what your going through. This world is sick, we see so much on tv and we pity people and then we just switch the tv off and forget what we have seen. You can help in alot of ways. There are some organizations that can help children there if you give like 18 dollars or something like that they say it will feed a family FOR A MONTH. Also you can do like what I am doing, which is writing a book about all of this. I feel people are not looking at the picture right and if everyone in the world just gave up one meal of ONE DAY, do you know how many people they would be saving each and every single day: 20,000 people a day.
2007-09-21 17:02:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want to help Africa, the best way is actually NOT to donate money - as the powers that be usually take them over and use them and put them into their own coffers (such as the SA Govt) whilst their people are poverty stricken. It would be the same with Zimbabwe. If you really want to help, I suggest you join an organisation such as the United Nations Aid, Unicef or something similar and actually go to these places and try to teach them something useful, such as planting and taking care of crops, taking care of their children, etc. And GOOD LUCK because this is easier said than done. You are going to need it!!
2007-09-21 22:59:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
how about stopping the overpopulation of people breeding who have HIV and aids and are leaving babies behind to starve and die or pass on these killer diseases.why do they continue this and expect the world to feed them and raise their children??? all the money that has been poured into this over the last 50 years at least is unreal!!! who has it saved and what has it changed!!! don't other peoples and nations deserve a chance also ,like maybe our own fellow Americans???? good luck.
2007-09-21 17:01:04 · answer #4 · answered by dixie58 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would seriously write to Oprah. She deals with that stuff all the time and she could assist you possibly.
2007-09-21 16:55:42 · answer #5 · answered by Y!A P0int5 Wh0r3 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What, there isn't enough people in our own country to help? Join a church and dig in! We got plenty of our own problems to deal with.
2007-09-21 16:55:46 · answer #6 · answered by Bobby D 2.0 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋