Blog #10: Chad: Mothers Breaking Apart Anthills in Search of Food

This article is also following the famine, and family troubles that are going on in Africa, with the drought. There has been problems in Sahel, but you can see that it has spread further, and is horrible, because it has reached the capital. Many people are having to move out of their hometowns, and try to find jobs in the capital, and more developed places.The women and children are more affected as usual, because they are the ones who can do the least for themselves. There are some groups trying to reach out to them and get them the food, and items they need, but they are being stopped. This is a problem because if they don't get the food to them before the rain comes, they may not be able to reach them to the overabundance of rain washing out the roads. The thing is the families are harvesting their crops, and within 3 months they will have ate all they harvested, and they are even eating the seeds that they had saved for the next years crops. The women are even going out and breaking into the anthills trying to find any kind of food that the ants have saved up. In other places they are tearing up roots and eating them, and eating things that you wouldn't eat unless desperate.
This is a horrible reality is that Africa is going downhill, and even the attempts to help them aren't working. The tries and attempts to get them food though are not enough, and much too small for the amount of problems that they are having there. We need to try and help, and get people over there, and food, we can't just sit back and watch this many people be wiped out from famine and malnutrition. If we don't help their women and children, then there won't be a future for Africa. If all of the young people die, and there are none, then there will be no one left to reproduce when the elders and the women are all that is left. If they continue on this path, then they will probably end up like China with no one to continue on another generation. This is causing the families to move out, and go to different places. Some families are relocating for good because the amount of destruction that the famine has caused in their home towns they don't want to have to face. We need to do something to help them now, or Africa won't have a future.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201203300842.html