Baaba Maal - Avaaz.org <avaaz@avaaz.org>
14 juni 2012 21:33
Dear friends,
18 million people are desperate for food in Africa’s
drought-struck Sahel, but urgent appeals for help are being met with
deafening silence by governments worldwide. Senegalese musician Baaba Maal
has started a petition to get the US, Japan, France and Germany to pledge their
fair share of aid. Let’s join him -- sign the urgent petition below and
sound the massive alarm needed to shake these leaders into action:
| My name is Baaba Maal, and
I’m a Senegalese musician writing with a personal plea for help. I live in
Africa’s drought-struck Sahel region where 18 million people are on the brink
of disaster, including 1 million children at risk of starvation. But our
urgent appeals for help are being met with deafening silence. Only a targeted
and overwhelming demand for action can stop this catastrophe from turning
deadly.
The UN says millions of lives could be destroyed unless $1.5
billion in aid is channeled in immediately, but governments have pledged less
than half the required sum. The countries who can make all the difference are
the US, Japan, France and Germany, but they’re stalling -- that's why I
started a petition on Avaaz's Community Petitions website to appeal to the world
for help.
In days, world leaders will gather in Brussels to
discuss the Sahel -- if they decide right there and then to pledge their fair
share, we can avert disaster. Sign this urgent petition now -- Avaaz,
Africans Act 4 Africa, and Oxfam will deliver it in a coordinated stunt when we
reach 1 million signatures:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_grain_sacks_are_empty/?bmzCdbb&v=15193
Terrible drought, political unrest, and sky high food prices have
wreaked havoc on an area the size of the US, stretching from Senegal in the west
all the way to Sudan in the east. People here are doing everything they can
to survive, but the crisis has hit so hard that it’s difficult to stay
hopeful. I’ve seen women and children trying to grow food in patches of land
that are bone dry. They know that people are talking about what is happening
in the Sahel, but they don’t know if aid will ever arrive.
The UN has
only received 43 percent of the $1.5 billion needed -- it’s a shortfall of
gargantuan proportions. But this gap must be filled, and can be filled by
the world’s richest countries, if there’s political will. We don't have much
time to avert mass suffering, and I'm determined to speak on behalf of the
people here until they get the help they need.
The world has turned a
blind eye to crises like this before, but this time we can make the difference
between life and death by forcing our governments to respond. Sign this
urgent petition now:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_grain_sacks_are_empty/?bmzCdbb&v=15193
Avaaz members have come together time and time again to respond to
natural disasters, saving thousands of lives by ensuring that crucial aid was
delivered to Burma, Haiti, Somalia and Pakistan. We have the power to force our
leaders to stop idling away in the face of a crisis we can prevent. Let's stand
together now to demand that the world respond to the pleas of the millions
living in the vast Sahel region.
With hope and
determination,
Baaba Maal, with the Avaaz team
MORE INFORMATION
A distress call from Africa's Sahel: Millions might starve (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/05/world/africa/sahel-hunger/index.html
UN:
18 Million in West Africa to Go Hungry in 2012 (The Associated Press)
http://news.yahoo.com/un-18-million-west-africa-hungry-2012-142100935.html
Meeting of like minds can save the hungry millions in Sahel (Sydney
Morning Herald)
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/meeting-of-like-minds-can-save-the-hungry-millions-in-sahel-20120529-1zgm8.html
Baaba
Maal: people in the Sahel region need food and water now (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2012/may/25/baaba-maal-sahel-food-water
Coming
weeks critical to tackle Sahel hunger – U.N. humanitarian chief (AlertNet)
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/coming-weeks-critical-to-tackle-sahel-hunger-un-humanitarian-chief
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