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| 50 Cent Visits Famine Victims In Somalia And Kenya As Part Of World Food Program by AfroBlue(m): 3:45am On Feb 10, 2012 |
50 Cent visits famine victims in Somalia and Kenya as part of World Food Program collaboration The rapper is donating 10 cents from every sale of his new energy drink to WFP [img]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1019947.1328821966!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/image.jpg[/img] 50 Cent (c.) visits children in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya on Thursday, Feb. 9. NAIROBI, Kenya — Rapper 50 Cent is teaming up with the World Food Program to see firsthand the effects of hunger in Somalia and Kenya. The rap star flew to Dolo, Somalia, on Wednesday. Tens of thousands of women and children have fled there over the last year to flee a devastating famine that killed tens of thousands of people across Somalia. WFP said the rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, has committed to provide 1 billion meals for the hungry, and is donating to WFP 10 cents from every sale of a new energy drink called Street King that he is promoting. The U.N. last week declared an end to Somalia’s six-month famine, though it said tens of thousands of people still need food aid to survive. The British government estimates that between 50,000 and 100,000 people died from the famine’s effects. [img]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1019946!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/image.jpg[/img] 50 Cent distributes food to orphaned children in Kibera in Nairobi. (ROSE OGOLA/AFP/Getty Images) |
| Re: 50 Cent Visits Famine Victims In Somalia And Kenya As Part Of World Food Program by pendo89(f): 7:05am On Feb 10, 2012 |
Oooh not again!   Is there famine in Kenya?? Halo how come am not aware?Look at that silly meal!! They have to boil only maize for poor orphaned kids so as to get 50 cents' heart touched. On a normal day that meal would contain beans to make it balanced!! But hey 50 cent is here and we must show him how needy we are. I only wish the help was continous to see those kids grew up well fed and educated, not the usual Hit and Run affairs of celebs. Every prominent personality who has ever set foot in Kenya has toured Kibera. EA's largest slum. And the place remains the same! From Bill and Melinda to Branson,Flavio Briatore,Naomi who hasn't toured Kibera!! Who is benefiting here> The NGO's and the celebs Image of course. I am tired. Fact is,there's a poor man's mentality that has refused to leave these people even when the goverment has offered to move them out of the slums and upgrade them! They just love the cheap slum life and its become part and parcel of them. Kibera Slum is the face they all use to get donor funds. No slum no donor funds. Who doesn't know the tricks employed by NGO'S? They pride in misery and poverty to make gains! after all biz must go on.No?? Sad thing is, whenever these prominent figures come they assume they are coming to help but the poor dwellers hardly feel the effect of their visits. Life goes on as usual and they don't even give a damn!!. The slum has abundant water! It's just not piped cz the pipes are vandalised and some people want to make quick cash by selling the same city council water to people using jerrycans! denying the council of cash! They vandalise elec. cables to avoid paying electricity and end up getting burnt in case of electrical mishap. They are in control of their own small and thriving economy and are frustrating goverment's effort to upgrade or relocate them cz everything is cheap! The kids grow up becoming part of the crazy ecosystem. Back to Somalia The famine in somalia is MAN-MADE! We all know that the elshabaabs have refused people access to their farms even during the rainy season! We hope the situation changes soon after the current war! Somali is has suffered because of war! not famine. One caused the other so,why not deal with the cause first?? How many UN organisations have poured food and other donations in that country for years with no improvement at all? Infact the same militia has denied them entry into somalia and have therefore resorted to helping them somalis from kenya refugee camps in Kakuma and Daadab! If the US or whatever UN org are interested in somali then the best they would have done was to get rid of the militia or else for how long are they going to rely on relief food?? ok so hes donating 1B to WFP. (3/4 of which will cover NGOs' costs including, expensive 5 course lunches,rents in high end areas,fuel guzzling vehicles, salaries and allowances).  Is there a permanent solution to ending world's hunger with all these billions flying across,or shall we live on relief food everytime severe weather hits.?? Some Western approach to solving Africa's problems disgust me. |
| Re: 50 Cent Visits Famine Victims In Somalia And Kenya As Part Of World Food Program by AfroBlue(m): 7:40pm On Feb 10, 2012 |
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| Re: 50 Cent Visits Famine Victims In Somalia And Kenya As Part Of World Food Program by pendo89(f): 9:18pm On Feb 10, 2012 |
oh is valentine here already? Ok don't send nothing cz we can have a perfect day without exchange of gifts. Here is what I propose. First we pass by Red Lobster place and do the necessary for two. We then drive all the way to everglades (sorry but am so in love with that place), and wrap it up with lunch at Kirby Storter Park. Very peaceful. A yachting tour plus fishing while enjoying the cool breeze in the afternoon. In the late afternoon time to go dance salsa at the Bayside and enjoy Pina colada and Margarita Evening is my favorite. Miami Beach Marina is a perfect spot for the perfect sea dish. If we still got any energy left we go to ocean drive for more salsa dance and relaxation till morning. And that is the end of valentine day. Okay back to reality! @ post. Now who photoshoped Bill like that !! That guy walks into Kenyan soil incognito and shows up in some unknown rural farm with an unkown local farmer!!like a ghost. Ok his foundation is something. I havent read about geo-engineerd chemtrails though. Hey, I hadnt checked out that pic properly.Thought those were kids at play but nope they are white soldiers giving chase? |
| Re: 50 Cent Visits Famine Victims In Somalia And Kenya As Part Of World Food Program by AfroBlue(m): 4:10am On Feb 11, 2012 |
pendo89: You have great skills in making love to a fella's mind even in jest. Yes, there is plenty to do and enjoy in my neck of the woods but I take it for granted. I'm amazed that you remembered so much from your last visit. But all in all I would wine you and dine you in 1st class style if the opportunity presented itself. I'm on the wagon (sober) so you'd have to drink up for both of us.  The political artwork is that of David Dees. http://www.sl-webs.com/deesillustration/home.asp http://www.rense.com/1.mpicons/deesA.htm I won't go into it here but there are conspiracy theories circulating that the global elite want to thin out the population of the earth down to about 500,000 people through eugenics programs and proxy wars. |
| Re: 50 Cent Visits Famine Victims In Somalia And Kenya As Part Of World Food Program by pendo89(f): 2:30pm On Feb 11, 2012 |
Afro_Blue: Dream. you know that is impossible considering the earth's size. |
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