H-too-Oh.

Crazy Hot this afternoon, weyh ! Could'a cried in my mum's car when I got in after lunch T_T. Melissa'sawuss! Anyway. Whenever it's hot, I think, nothing can top an afternoon in your room with the A/C turned on a cup of iced tea/milo/[right now I'm having..] Fresh Aloe' with Honey (: Or, a cup of chilled water would do just fine,too no?

Meh. But right, being a stupid-moronic-idiot I am, I take more than what I usually can consume. Usually my cup would be full and I would only finish HALF of it. This morning, I filled my water bottle with water. Brought to school but I didn't drink much. [I don't know why either T_T] And a few times I kept staring at my bottle and thought about the kids that DON'T have enough of water. And thinking how far they would go to have that much of water from my bottle everyday. Just one would do for them. And here I am, pouring it into my kitchen sink after school.

Key Challenges

The greatest challenge lies in building competent, efficient, business-like, and service-oriented institutions. Sustainable service provision is only possible where customers themselves cover the costs of operation and maintenance; capital cost recovery is not always possible, but often requires predictable public subsidies.

More than 1.1 billion people lack access to safe water, and 2.6 billion lack access to basic sanitation.Millenium Development Goals(MDGs) include a target to halve the fraction of the world’s population without access to water and sanitation by 2015. The world is roughly on course to reach the target for water supply, but will fall short by half a billion people in sanitation.

Finance is short: estimated investment towards the WSS MDGs, at $15 billion a year, is only half what is needed to meet the MDG targets, even without sewage treatment. Other major constraints on expanding access include political instability, corruption, social dislocation through urban migration, and population growth. For example, the number of people with access to basic sanitation grew by half from 1990 to 2004, but the number without sanitation remained essentially the same, because of population growth.

Food

Hey you guys (: Hmm. Just wanna start out by saying ,"Yay!". You actually came here (: shows you care (: I really do hope that this blog would help you see things clearer. (:


Okay so today I went to this website where they tell you how you can do something about poverty. These were my favourites:

1. Check your closet and make sure that anything you have not used last winter is taken to a charitable organization. Ask your friends and neighbors and volunteer to pick up the clothes, launder them and deliver them to those organizations. They will do no good in your closet and a world of good to someone in need.
   
   
2. Have a “sponsor me” day. Donate money to a poverty relief cause for everyone who leaves a comment on your blog that day.
   
   
3. I think in order to stop poverty is to give what the people really need, not just giving it away for the sake of ‘being kind’
   
   
4. Eat meatless meals 2x a week. Donate that grocery money to a local food bank.
   
   
5. Be homeless for a day/night.
   

" The crisis in the south of the country has been caused by a drought and a plague of locusts which destroyed much of last year's harvest.

Aid agency World Vision warns that 10% of the children in the worst affected areas could die. They say the international community has reacted too late to the crisis. Niger is a vast desert country and one of the poorest on earth. Millions of people, a third of the population, face food shortages. Families are roaming the parched desert looking for help. One family we came across did not even know where they were going.

"I'm wandering like a madman," the father said. "I'm afraid we'll all starve."

They were hundreds of miles from the nearest food distribution point. Aid agencies estimate that tens of thousands of children are in the advanced stages of starvation. Children are dying daily in the few feeding centres there are, where their place in the queue could make the difference between life and death. "