Blog #11 Sahel food crisis

The Sahel food crisis has been going on for a while, and is just getting worse for the families. It says that of the families fleeing at least 20 percent have a child suffering from sever acute malnutrition. This is a problem, because the workers and helpers, and the other cities where they are fleeing to are running out of options and supplies to help the newcomers, and those that were there from the start. There is also a rising problem of the rebel groups coming in and taking over the places that are suffering more. They are setting up borders so that the aid groups are unable to get the critical food and livestock to the people in need the most. This will be a major problem, and will cause more suffering and death because without getting the items that they need there will be more deaths. At least 200,000 people have fled to these other areas for help, when the other ares are struggling to feed their own without the extra people, and families to feed. Without letting in the help, and getting the extra items the food prices in the place of most need has nearly doubled and no one has been able to get the food with those problems.
I have been following this for a while, and while it should be getting better in a perfect world, it just seems to be getting ever so worse. While we need to help these families, and try to get them to a great health we have another problem of fighting the rebels to deliver aid. The rebels are throwing fuel on an ever growing fire, and that will cause a problem not just now, but in the future as well. With them adding more problems you can't help but wonder if the starving families will be able to get food, or if they will just have to accept their fate and die because the rebels won't allow them any aid. That is a scary thought or fact that these poor starving people will just die because someone made the decision to not let them live. I fear for these families, and the lives of their children because they fled home in the hope of food, but now the places where they have fled aren't even sure they will be able to feed them and their current population. What do you do with someone when you have no clue where they can go with their family and their lives. This is something we need to try and figure out while we have the chance, and we need to do something fast before these people start dying, because then it will be an even bigger problem.
http://dawn.com/2012/04/01/sahel-food-crisis/