What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step

Rarely I found the news as encouraging. So did this morning news about hunger of over 400 million children and malnutrition problems in Darfur or Ethiopia. So, what! we might want to say. We heard the news over and over that somewhat it seems to fill up less capacity of our thoughts. One of the head officers of the UN whose in charge of eradicating the world hunger and his final words was that it was overwhelming to see the world hunger with his own eyes, a problem that we all know how to solve. He said that the world need to be more generous and we all could do better.

The problem with that was not that some developed, wealthy countries are not generous. There is a deeper politics involved in that, for example, I could go back to the BlackGold movie I watched and talked about in the last post. The USAID program has increased its budget to help Ethiopia with commodities but not cash. But, if, only if, fair trade is in effect, Ethiopia will not need any aids after all from anywhere. The sufficiency they have will reach about three times of the aids they currently receive. That's my preliminary thoughts based on the movie, I don't have any elaborate research on that. But all of that make sense. Only if, inequality is erased.

Will fair trade save our world from inequality? May be. Will it save the children that are right now, dying in hunger when there are food to purchase? I think not. The world is cruel, but we can't just say that this is how things are supposed to be either. Do something.