| Irish Examiner, page 16
IN Burma today some 2.4 million lives are dangling by a slender
thread. In Ethiopia the lives of another two million people
are under
threat from famine.
In both cases, thanks to the generosity of the Irish people, GOAL
is poised and on hand willing to help. But the Burmese junta is
obstructing the efforts of all aid agencies on the ground who still
cannot enter the disaster zones.
In Ethiopia, the prolonged drought of 2007 has cut harvests disastrously.
GOAL clinics are seeing large influxes of severely malnourished
people, with small children especially vulnerable and disease-prone.
GOAL'S team in Ethiopia has established emergency feeding centres
for mothers and children, bringing truckloads of clean water where
drought has hit hardest.
Without urgent financial aid and direct food assistance, catastrophe
looms.
John O'Shea PO Box 19 Dun Laoghaire Co Dublin
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