Earlier this week, I witnessed women beaten with horse whips to keep them from entering a food distribution centre. Mother Teresa’s ‘Missionaries of Charity’ were distributing food to hundreds inside but the growing crowds beyond the gate were out of control, even for the locals trying to restrain their people. In another town we found babies lying abandoned in pools of diarrhea, covered in flies, while metres away people literally fought for access to the single water source.
I experienced women, young and old, weeping for their children. One woman buried all five of her children herself because she had nothing to pay someone to do the work for her. She was too scared to tell the authorities of the situation out of fear she would somehow be blamed. More
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August 12th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!
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