Comments on: wordless wednesday :: dying of malaria in africa

By: what i learned from 2008 - BibleDude.net

what i learned from 2008 - BibleDude.net — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:26:32 +0000

[...] wordless wednesday :: dying of malaria in africa – An image that I still cannot seem to shake, and still one of the more popular posts on the site. The question remains… What are we going to do about it? [...]

By: Dan King

Dan King — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:32:41 +0000

I agree with all of you on this. It tells a pretty powerful story about what is happening. I thought that it would be good to share this one in light of the “eight dollar hot dog” video that spaghettipie shared. The statement at the end where the dude got the phone call from a friend in Africa where the kids kept dying from Malaria, and he pointed out that the medication for it was cheaper than his food that night.

This image, I believe, puts some faces to that story.

The thing is that Malaria is a MAJOR problem in many third-world countries. But it is completely curable. The reason that it is such a large problem is that the people cannot afford the medication (which coincedentally is quite cheap to us). So the kids dying of this disease are esentially dying of poverty.

What do we need to do to help our brothers and sisters?

By: spaghettipie

spaghettipie — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:35:01 +0000

Wow, what a powerful picture!

By: CK Go Places

CK Go Places — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:35:54 +0000

That’s a stunning image! It tells a lot of story behind it.

By: Shelia

Shelia — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:51:25 +0000

How very difficult to look at. God’s Will be done.

By: Mark Goodyear

Mark Goodyear — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:33:00 +0000

This breaks my heart.