The F Word

I'm sat here watching the amazing Eddie Izzard asking the UK, Didn't We Fix Famine?

We all know about Band Aid & Bob Geldof saying 'never again'. The world thought it would be never again, we never thought we would be in the position once more. But you can see, technology these days allows us to see when a drought is imminent. The world watched a crisis unfold. Why was nothing done about it?

The crisis that is currently happening in Somalia is the first famine in perhaps a generation. Ask children, they probably have never seen these sort of imagery on live news before, I wouldn't want them to see it. Over 30,000 children have died in 3 months. Think of all those eyes, those laughs, those hearts, just because they don;'t have enough food. I sat with tears rolling down my face as a mother had to decide which one of her two children was to be given treatment and which wasn't, so basically she had to make a decision about which child would die. No mother should have to ever make that choice.

We're obsessed with our own image, with going on diets. These kids have no choice but to look thin. Buy what you need, not what you want. I know as well as anybody that our 'economic climate' at the moment is poor, it's not really improving and people are struggling. But the majority of us are still having 3 square meals a day, i'm sat on my netbook! These kids have never seen rain, never mind a computer screen!

Enriched peanut butter (£20 keeps 4 children going on this paste for 4 weeks!) is saving lives. It's not perfect, but this paste is keeping people alive. It's not a perfect ending, but less have died than could have because of aid funding, but children are still dying. Everyone should have the chance to live.

I urge you, just as we do (we sponsor 2 children but we're not perfect, we could probably do more) to give what you can. As always celebrities have put their voices behind this campaign, check out the video below.