September 22, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Service: Fund Raising: Billings Outpost: Denise Roth Barber says "As a former Peace Corps volunteer in Niger (1990-1992), I am appealing to anyone who can to please make a donation to any of the several aid organizations currently in Niger."
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September 22, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Service: Fund Raising: Billings Outpost: Denise Roth Barber says "As a former Peace Corps volunteer in Niger (1990-1992), I am appealing to anyone who can to please make a donation to any of the several aid organizations currently in Niger."
Denise Roth Barber says "As a former Peace Corps volunteer in Niger (1990-1992), I am appealing to anyone who can to please make a donation to any of the several aid organizations currently in Niger."
As a former Peace Corps volunteer in Niger (1990-1992), I am appealing to anyone who can to please make a donation to any of the several aid organizations currently in Niger, providing food and medicine for those at risk of dying of malnutrition and the illnesses associated with starvation. Your financial help is desperately needed! Even $10 and $25 donations will go a long way, if many of us pitch in.
Denise Roth Barber says "As a former Peace Corps volunteer in Niger (1990-1992), I am appealing to anyone who can to please make a donation to any of the several aid organizations currently in Niger."
Help needed for Niger
Caption: Caption: A mother carries her malnourished child into a feeding centre run by the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontiers in the town of Maradi in southern Niger July 1, 2005. International donors, including the European Union, ignored urgent calls for food aid for Niger, exposing thousands of children to the risk of dying of hunger, an official at a medical charity said on Friday. The situation in Niger highlights Africa's plight days ahead of next week's Group of Eight industrialised nations summit in Scotland, where Britain plans to put fighting poverty on the continent at the top of the agenda. Photo: REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly
Imagine what it would be like not be able to feed yourself or your children today, nor tomorrow, or the day after, and still not even into next week or the week after. Imagine what it must be like to watch your children during this time get thinner and thinner, crying and begging for food and all you can do is hold them in attempts to comfort them.
Unfortunately, due to drought and a devastating locust invasion that wasted their harvests this year, some 2.5 million people in Niger, West Africa, the world’s second poorest country, are living, not imagining, that horrible nightmare.
As a former Peace Corps volunteer in Niger (1990-1992), I am appealing to anyone who can to please make a donation to any of the several aid organizations currently in Niger, providing food and medicine for those at risk of dying of malnutrition and the illnesses associated with starvation. Your financial help is desperately needed! Even $10 and $25 donations will go a long way, if many of us pitch in.
To make an on-line donation, please go to: Doctors without Borders, officially called Medecins Sans Frontieres (www.MSF.org); the World Food Programme (www.wfp.org); Care International (www.crs.org), to name just a few.
For a thorough directory of charities responding to the humanitarian needs in Niger you can go to Reuters AlertNet, (www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/112254895644.htm ).
Niger’s moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas thank you!
Denise Roth Barber
Helena
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