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doctorswithoutborders:

Fighting Unusually High Malnutrition Rates in Chad and Preparing for Worse

As a food crisis continues to spread and levels of severe acute malnutrition continue to rise in Chad, MSF is expanding the number of emergency malnutrition treatment programs it is operating in the country. Even in a normal year, Chad has one of the highest rates of chronic malnutrition in the world. This year is showing signs of being worse than usual. In early 2012, in some areas of the country, rates of global acute malnutrition as high as 24 percent have already been reported among children under the age of five.

Why are there such alarming rates of malnutrition in Biltine?

February is the beginning of the hunger gap in Chad, when families traditionally begin to run out of their food stocks. This year MSF found high rates of severe acute malnutrition rates among children under five, because only 46 percent of the harvest required to feed the population was harvested, which is well below the average. Many Chadians who worked in Libya also lost their jobs and returned home. Those men have moved to other parts of Chad to find work, but the salaries are much lower, so they are sending home less money.

A staff member uses a MUAC to check a child for malnutrition at an MSF hospital in Chad.

Chad 2012 © Andrea Bussotti/MSF

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Santa Monica Sunset Sky (Waiting)

I sit on the Beach foot in  Sand;
And I wait for the waves to come.
There are different kind of waves;
Waves of emotions,
Waves of circumstances,
Waves of blessings,
Waves of laughter.

But I was not waiting for these waves.
Cause I have seen them all before.

I waited for that special moment of rest,
that moment that would surpass them all.
A keep-sake to  take  with me when I leave  the shore,
to return to my ever waking life.

© O…:| ♥

hellogreenworld: Yes you are. Stay Beautiful.

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I leave dreams on my pillow

I sit on the edge of my bed before I lie.
Time will come to me as I wait on the dust to settle.
For there are visions that linger on;
Distinctive images of the gods.
Laying down their gifts to man,
As they ascend upwards toward the sky.

The air is thick with smoke;
As men on chariots blare their trumpets,
In chase after  the wind to bring them speed. 
But mortality clings at their heels.
Gravity reigns into them bringing them to their knees.
And so, I sit and listen for the wind to speak to my ear.
I listen to the tides of time,
to give me vision before I lie.

© O…:| ♥

eatsleepdraw:The Big Lebowski’s “Enlightenment Through Bowling” Jeff Mitchell, 2011

TABLETURE

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SEARCHING….

The root lies beneath the tree as

it is the nature of it’s being.

For it pines for water.

To want it.

To need it.

                                   So it is with man.

                                   To seek something mired

                                   beneath the source of desire.

                                   To drink from the sap of

                                   inspiration to help him grow.

                                   To help him know.

But what is the consequence,

When one drinks from  bitter vine?

What will redeem you?

What will release you?

                                                      For this is the plight of your own choosing.

                                                      You drown in your own myriad of dreams.

                                                      The longing for justice yet undone.

                                                      And it will leave you digging in,

                                                      gasping on air as an anchor.

                                                      And each moment will seem longer than

                                                      the next.

                  But there is no answer.

© O…:| ♥

The Love Within You…

One does not know when love cometh.
Be giving, Be Open, Be true.
An like fire it will awake in you,
And give you purpose.

And all that you do
Will be grounded.
Rooted, from whats within you.
Then you will Know,
The Love within you.

© O…:| ♥

The City Rocks as the world comes together on the streets of the city.
Every corner is filled with excitement.
You can taste it in the air.
City Rock on.

© O…:| ♥

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