i dont know if any of you have seen any of the media coverage of the famine but let me assure you it is very disturbing and graphic
It is a very desperate situation and i think it would be really good if we could think of some small way to help maybe we could all do the forty hour famine (giant sleepover) although this may not directly help the people of niger im not sure ???

if anyone has any ideas please email me at goldfish17@hotmail.com

Right now in Niger, West Africa, an estimated 3.6 million people are in critical need of food. The United Nations reports that more than 800,000 children are suffering from hunger, including 150,000 children who show signs of severe malnutrition, after drought and locust swarms devastated crops throughout the country. The government of Niger has declared an emergency and is appealing for help.

Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world, ranking 176 out of 177 nations listed in the UNDP's 2004 Human Development Report. Every year an estimated 166,000 children in Niger die from preventable diseases and almost 70 percent of the country's 12 million people do not have access to health services