Shame on you Malawiana members

Nali · Member

Shame on you Malawiana members

abre les ojos · Guru

Well Nali prayer never fed anyone. They need food not prayer.

game · Guru

nali

i coudnt agree with you more but my question is what are we to do as word is cheap,we can talk about it and cut our fresh but the plight of fellow malawians remain the same.unless if you suggest we do something as a united front on this forum but to who will you address the help with so many corrupt officials patiently waiting for donor aid so they can pounce on it.

Nali · Member

Yes a prayer itself wont help but it symbolises that at least we havent forgotten them and it is better as nothing.

Game you are right talk is cheap. We should try to walk the talk. I feel helpless as well. I am asking myself what can i do to help. If i am to offer help in terms of money will that help go to the people who need it the most or will somebody spend the money on his personal gain. But what i find disturbing is a lot of people trying to ignore the situation. Not even a response of sympathy from some of us. Just look back to the topic Katrina and how malawiana members responded. Some even pledged money to help the rich USA.

Black Panther · Senior Member

wouls someone on this forum that is articulate please start a chain letter then and post it up on Malawiana - This would be an awareness campaign. We can all fwd it to people we know - raising awareness is one way to hit and target the press. Starvation in Malawi is not due to a big natural disaster so people wont here about it and do see it as normal.....IF YOU WRITE IT, THEY WILL COME. SO Go ahead. Lets today pledge to start an awareness campaign about the situation in Malawi.. Il start it off....

Dear World,

Nali · Member

Black Panther your idea is a great one. Another way of raising awareness is through word of mouth. Some of us who belong to organisations be it the church or book clubs, sports clubs can let other fellow members know about it and am sure people will react. It is sad that up to this day some people still see starvation or famine in Africa as a normal thing. Well can one blame these people for seeing it that way look last year it was the same story. The question that lingers on my mind is What can local malawians do to prevent this from happening next year? What went wrong last year and this year? Is it because of lack of rains, or is it because of Aids, poor farming methods. There are probably a lot of factors that are leading to this but what can the government and the people of malawi do to prevent this situation from happening again despite these hindrances.

Black Panther · Senior Member

Countries like India, were pretty much 'third world' until now... when something happens in India, the world is going to pay attention. Not only b/c it is more developed then Malawi but because there are indians everywhere , in the media, in the press, on TV, in the places where they need to be to put India on the map..what ARE we REally doing to put Malawi on the MAP... Is it embarrasment bc we are poor...India was poor too..what is our excuse..no pride, and we continue to cry for our beleoved country...but we wont wipe away her tears.

Nali · Member

We malawians are not patriotic. The reason behind it is there is nothing to be proud of. Our attitude is also a big problem. Malawians dont like another malawian to be successful we are jealous of one another hence a lot of malawians who are overseas dont like to have connections with other malawians. India has a lot of things to be proud of look at how successful bolywood movies have become, they had a charismatic leader like Ghandi, their economy is booming etc.

sepusepu · Senior Member

Nali

As a malawian i am proud of my country. There is never a better place that i wish a was born than Malawi(BT). Nobody can change that.

sepu

-- Edited by sepusepu at 22:55, 2005-10-13

President · Veteran Member

Other Malawians are patriotic but there are many others who are pessimistic.They dont look at thing in a positive way.They tend to focus on negative side of things. Lets look at the hanger situation Nali said that a prayer could help thats better atleast somebody out there is thinking about the plight.But this can only be good if only its complemented by Action. We need action oriented ideas. Thank God yesterday heard on TV that WFP is to feed about 2.2 Million people in Malawi.But still more, the number that is being focused to be hit by hanger is 4.1 Million. I was overwhelmed when i switched on my BBC television Channel to see Pakistanians in UK donating variuos things to the victims of the earthquake. It was that fast, They responded quite fast to help their brothers. But we Malawians we dont have that spirit. Lets wake up.Be optimistic lets look at thing in a different way than we always do. I know that there is another side of things that we are good at.

abre les ojos · Guru

sepusepu wrote:

Nali As a malawian i am proud of my country. There is never a better place that i wish a was born than Malawi(BT). Nobody can change that. sepu -- Edited by sepusepu at 22:55, 2005-10-13

And this is from someone who lives in the US right? Pride in something should be as a result of some kind of achievement don't you think. You can be proud TO BE Malawian. But Proud OF Malawi is a different matter altogether.

President · Veteran Member

Nali wrote:

We malawians are not patriotic. The reason behind it is there is nothing to be proud of. Our attitude is also a big problem. Malawians dont like another malawian to be successful we are jealous of one another hence a lot of malawians who are overseas dont like to have connections with other malawians. India has a lot of things to be proud of look at how successful bolywood movies have become, they had a charismatic leader like Ghandi, their economy is booming etc.

I strongly agree with you Nali.Jealous No1. We seem to be good at it than other areas of life why?

abre les ojos

I can spot the difference yah!

Lets rise up and change shame on us.

President · Veteran Member

http://www.fomo.co.uk/index.htm

For all those in Uk who wants to assist visit this I think will help.

sepusepu · Senior Member

President

I think this problem of hunger has been recurring and we should plan on how to take care of it for ever. In other ways we should look at teaching people how to fish rather than just give them fish. If they get donations now and no investments are inforced for the longterm, aren't we going to have the same problem next yr and year after that.

sepu

President · Veteran Member

sepusepu wrote:

President I think this problem of hunger has been recurring and we should plan on how to take care of it for ever. In other ways we should look at teaching people how to fish rather than just give them fish. If they get donations now and no investments are inforced for the longterm, aren't we going to have the same problem next yr and year after that. sepu

I can agree with you sepu but as the situation is now we need to atleast do something while we are looking at those mechanisim of eradicating hanger.

I heard on Tv This We a good subject that Bunda College of Agriculture is working on those strategies and one of the strategy was on water Harvesting. this was my first time to hear about water harvesting but when I looked at it cratically I saw it as a good strategy to ensure availability of water even when theres no rain.

So I suggest two this one is to work out on the long term strategies that can assist poeple in future as suggested by Sepu and another way to reduce the deaths due to hanger at current we need to offer them something to help them now.

irrigation is also quite vital.Malawi is 40% water but each and every years people die of Hunger due to ? Water scacity.

By the way Blantyre was hit by water shortage did you hear that? imagine.

Nali · Member

sepusepu wrote:

Nali As a malawian i am proud of my country. There is never a better place that i wish a was born than Malawi(BT). Nobody can change that. sepu -- Edited by sepusepu at 22:55, 2005-10-13

Sepu give me good reasons why other malawians should be proud of malawi.

I was reading something on www.MeetMalawi.com about the parliament summoning the malawian president. Something about the parliament allocating 5,8 billion malawian kwacha to purchase food. That money according to this article the parliament doesnt no where its gone. It seems like the president is spending a lot of money travelling, wining and dining his followers while millions of malawians are starving. I am not a follower of politics but when i read this be it true or not i lost all the little pride that i had left in this country. This really is embarrassing for me, imagine here i am trying to get people in this country that i am in to help malawi and what will they say to me when they read things like this. So you tell me Sepu what is there to be proud of.