100,000 children displaced by Japan quake

SAVE the Children warned on Monday that up to 100,000 children have been displaced following the earthquake and tsunami that have devastated large parts of the north-east coast of Japan.

Mr Stephen McDonald, who is leading the British charity's response to the disaster, said: 'We are extremely anxious that up to 100,000 children have been displaced because of last Friday's earthquake and tsunami.

'Their homes may have been destroyed and many of them will be sheltering in crowded evacuation centres.

'We can only imagine how frightening the experience of the last few days will have been for them. There is also a risk that some of them will have become separated from their parents and family members because of the disaster.'

The quake - the biggest in Japan's history - struck off the coast of the country's main Honshu island on Friday, triggering a 10m tsunami which swept away houses, trains and cars after slamming into the Pacific shoreline.

Save the Children said many young people had already talked to them of their fears of returning home, the fact that they were missing their friends and how desperate they were to go back to school.

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to kanie: oh! i soow Love you too <3 hehehe'

to misha: yeah, i hate the set-up aLso, but you see, i'm stiLL up :))

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the cLassic:

i just saw my crush early this morning, and as usual, i was like, stunned and my cheeks were strikingly raging in pink. . . hahahah' twas Like," OMG! i am soooow visibLe" ~.~

Sudan: The Hungriest Place on Earth

After years of battling drought and civil and tribal wars, Sudan, the largest country on the African continent, is experiencing looming famine.



An entire population is teetering on the verge of severe starvation, and the children are the ones who are mostly affected: Little ones with eyes that are sunken in, reed-thin legs barely able to support them, exposed ribs, distended bellies, skin barely clinging to their bones, and gazes that are lifeless are just biding their time, waiting to die.





The number of people in southern Sudan who are in dire need of food assistance has more than quadrupled, from 1 million in 2009 to 4.3 million this year, according to the U.N. Thus far, charitable organizations have fed an estimated 80,000 people, but experts are theorizing that the worst is yet to come because the harvest is not expected until fall, and that is dependent on whether the rains come at all. Even if the rains come, though, there are no seeds for the people to plant and grow their food.



Humanitarian efforts by such groups as Save the Children and Medair have actually searched for the hungriest children in communities throughout the devastated land and placed them in therapeutic-feeding programs, where diets with primarily fortified peanut butter were given to them to bring them back from the brink.



"We are only just entering the start of the hunger gap, so we would expect nutrition levels to worsen in the coming months," said Kate Foster, director of Program Development for Save the Children in Southern Sudan (SCiSS).


The straw huts and dusty community of Akobo has the highest rate of starvation. The village is part of an isolated region suffering from tribal warfare that has displaced almost 400,000 people. Akobo has also been the site of violent tribal conflicts for the past year in addition to suffering from lack of rain, insecurity in the area and five years of crop failures.



The skeletal bodies that slowly trail about the land are also a sad reminder of the civil wars that have lasted more than two decades, killing 2 million people and causing countless to be displaced. That conflict is separate from the war in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, which began in 2003 and has killed an estimated 300,000.

Unfortunately, government efforts are few and far between because of global financial decline.



Until there is a major global intervention to steer the region out of its current emergency state, many of the country's children will die. Meanwhile, humanitarian organizations like SCiSS, Medair and the World Food Programme will continue to distribute supplemental food rations for families in need, and International Medical Corps, which runs the county hospital, will stay-the-course in providing care for severely malnourished children. 


in behalf of these children, the passion and desire of my heart to take an immediate action has grown strongly. . . this may be a lil' thing to do with these children, but by blogging this, I know, I can extend a lil' help. . . 
my heart weeps, my soul awakens, and my body trembles. . .

source:  http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/04/14/sudan-children-are-starving/

wanting a meal. . .

This photograph showing a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture won Kevin Carter the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.

he just took a shot and then left, without even trying to help this helpless angel. . .
the child has died due to severe starvation, idk what happened next, but the only thing i knew. . .
he killed himself.

A portion of his suicide note:

 "I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...I have gone to join Ken [recently deceased colleague Ken Oosterbroek] if I am that lucky."

Hunger Stats

Every year, authors, journalists, teachers, researchers, schoolchildren and students ask us for statistics about hunger and malnutrition. To help answer these questions, we've compiled a database of useful facts and figures on world hunger.

GLOBAL HUNGER

• 925 million people do not have enough to eat - more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union;
  (Source: FAO news release, 14 September 2010)
• 98 percent of the world's hungry live in developing countries;
  (Source: FAO news release , 2010)
• Asia and the Pacific region is home to over half the world’s population and nearly two thirds of the world’s hungry people;
  (Source: FAO news release, 2010)
• Women make up a little over half of the world's population, but they account for over 60 percent of the world’s hungry.
  (Source:  Strengthening efforts to eradicate hunger..., ECOSOC, 2007)
• 65 percent  of the world's hungry live in only seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia.
  (Source: FAO news release, 2010)

CHILD HUNGER 

• More than 70 percent of the world's 146 million underweight children under age five years live in just 10 countries, with more than 50 per cent located in South Asia alone;
  (Source: Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition, UNICEF, 2006)
• 10.9 million children under five die in developing countries each year. Malnutrition and hunger-related diseases cause 60 percent of the deaths;
  (Source: The State of the World's Children, UNICEF, 2007)
• The cost of undernutrition to national economic development is estimated at US$20-30 billion per annum;
  (Source: Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition, UNICEF, 2006)
• One out of four children - roughly 146 million - in developing countries are underweight;
  (Source: The State of the World's Children, UNICEF, 2007)
• Every year WFP feeds more than 20 million children in school feeding programmes in some 70 countries. In 2008, WFP fed a record 23 million children.
  (Source: WFP School Feeding Unit)

MALNUTRITION

• It is estimated that 684,000 child deaths worldwide could be prevented by increasing access to vitamin A and zinc
  (Source: WFP Annual Report 2007)

• Undernutrition contributes to 53 percent of the 9.7 million deaths of children under five each year in developing countries.
  (Source: Under five deaths by cause, UNICEF, 2006)

• Lack of Vitamin A kills a million infants a year
  (Source: Vitamin and Mineral Deficiency, A Global Progress Report, UNICEF)

• Iron deficiency is the most prevalent form of malnutrition worldwide, affecting an estimated 2 billion people.6 Eradicating iron deficiency can improve national productivity levels by as much as 20 percent.
  (Source:  World Health Organization, WHO Global Database on Anaemia)

• Iron deficiency is impairing the mental development of 40-60 percent children in developing countries
  (Source: Vitamin and Mineral Deficiency, A Global Progress Report, p2, UNICEF)

• Vitamin A deficiency affects approximately 25 percent of the developing world’s pre-schoolers. It is associated with blindness, susceptibility to disease and higher mortality rates. It leads to the death of approximately 1-3 million children each year.
  (Source: UN Standing Committee on Nutrition. World Nutrition Situation 5th report. 2005)

• Iodine deficiency is the greatest single cause of mental retardation and brain damage. Worldwide, 1.9 billion people are at risk of iodine deficiency, which can easily be prevented by adding iodine to salt
  (Source:  UN Standing Committee on Nutrition. World Nutrition Situation 5th report. 2005)

FOOD & HIV/AIDS

• In the countries most heavily affected, HIV has reduced life expectancy by more than 20 years, slowed economic growth, and deepened household poverty.
  (Source: 2008 UNAIDS Global Report on the AIDS Epidemic)

• In sub-Saharan Africa alone, the epidemic has orphaned nearly 12 million children aged under 18 years.
  (Source: 2008 UNAIDS Global Report on the AIDS Epidemic).

• WFP and UNAIDS project that it will cost on average US $0.70 cents per day to nutritionally support an AIDS patient and his/her family.
  (Source: Cost of Nutritional Support for HIV/AIDS Projects, WFP, July 2008)
• Assistance for orphans and vulnerable children is estimated at US$0.31 per day.
  (Source: Cost of Nutritional Support for HIV/AIDS Projects, WFP, July 2008)

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(From L-R) Joemz, (Me) and Juan.

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i soow miss you, f'ship :((

Simple vs Real

Anyone can stand by you when you are right, but a Friend will stand by you even when you are wrong...

A simple friend identifies himself when he calls. A real friend doesn't have to.

A simple friend opens a conversation with a full news bulletin on his life.

A real friend says, "What's new with you?"

A simple friend thinks the problems you whine about are recent.

A real friend says, "You've been whining about the same thing for 14 years. Get off your duff and do something about it."

A simple friend has never seen you cry. A real friend has shoulders soggy from your tears.

A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names. A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book.

A simple friend hates it when you call after he has gone to bed. A real friend asks you why you took so long to call.

A simple friend seeks to talk with you about your problems. A real friend seeks to help you with your problems.

A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest. A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself.

A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an argument.

A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had a fight.

A simple friend expects you to always be there for them. A real friend expects to always be there for you!

@bRo: aPpie aPpie biRthday bRo. . . i Knw tHis s sUch a Lame Line eVerybOdy uTters, yet i'd rAther sAy it oVer aNd oVer aGain cz 4me, it's sUmhOw cOmpeLLing, "dOn't eVer cHange, jz sTAy as u r" aNd dOn't sTop gRowing. . . Love out ov Love, nOt out ov dEsire to be LOved and LOve., [xaBta nLng ky aq ng'LibOg] ahahaha'

@fRieNdshiPs: FRIENDSHIP IS A PRICELESS GIFT, THAT CANNOT BE BOUGHT OR SOLD

From the Blogger

 

just recently. . .

you knew, you read, you commented, you even reacted violently [hehe' not to mention those who really fought for/with me 'til I (you know, somehow) fed up!]

this is really really hard, but I decided to just let it go --i meant, let go of you, guys :(

you might start to wonder why I don't have followers anymore. . . I remove you all as my avid followers. . .

deleted my blogs in the prior years of 2009 and 2010, and left some uninteresting blogs of 2010. . .

even your comments and everything, sad, but I need to do it, to do those stuffs to you, guys. . .

thanks for supporting me all the way 

--that even if I almost been kicked-out from my art workshop camp during summer [you knew the reason why :))] i still have you <3

--that even if I almost drowned myself to work [hmmf, and love. hahahah'], you reminded me :)

--that even if I almost lost my life due to my stupid ever allergy, you raised me up. hehehe'

--that even if I almost gave up from inevitable circumstances, you enlightened me:))

--I guess, WORDS are POWERLESS to appreciate and thank you, guys!!!

to my worthless faggot followers -- YOU SUCK!!!

again, to my ever beloved followers, you can still have me in TUMBLR :))

and i still wanna hear everything from you, guys \m/  

whenever you have something to say or whutsoever, puhlease post in my tumblr, not here. . .

P.S.

i am not giving up this blog, there's no way i am giving up!!!