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The following information was taken from the article: Desperate Farmers Sell Wives to Pay Debts in Rural India. High Noon video
In her article, Sarah Sidner describes how in India, husbands are selling their wives and parents are selling their daughters to pay off impossible debts incurred after years of drought and resulting crop failure.
Clearly, this is not simply an issue of poverty but also one of culture structure where women are seen as potential currency.
Tags: children, CNN, debt, drought, keeping familes together, madhya pradesh, malnutrition, rural farmers, Sarah Sidner, women
RMF’s Michael Lear is in the arid Turkana district of Northern Kenya trying to find the best way to help the most people get clean drinking water.
Like so many areas, the Turkana district has suffered the same hunger and thirst for longer than most would like to remember. And with rain becoming more and more scarce with each passing year, faith in the future is becoming equally hard to come by here.
Here is a video that touches on the desperation these people are feeling: Millions face starvation in Horn of Africa
As the video explains, these villagers rely exclusively on international aid and with the financial crisis slowing down funds they have been without food now for two months—and they do not know why.
Tags: Bethany House, drought, Love Mercy
In Kenya, people are dying as they lay waiting for help. Children are starving, choking on powdered foodstuffs that they cannot swallow without water.
The international community has been slow to respond for various reasons but meanwhile lives are being lost.
They need water.
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The Marconi Bros. full movie Following the NY Times article Lush Land Dries Up, Withering Kenya’s Hopes Real Medicine connected with its author, Jeffrey Gettleman, in Kenya to intervene.
Tags: drought, Jeffery Gettleman, NY Times, WorldVision
Widespread malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh, India – A note from the field
Jhabua, Alirajpur, Khandwa, Khargone June 2009
The Student Prince movie Malnutrition is one of the most serious and large scale health problems facing the Indian state today:
Tags: drought, field report, India, madhya pradesh, malnutrition, monsoon
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