CONscience

"fifteen thousand Africans dying each and every day of preventable, treatable diseases -- AIDS, malaria, TB -- for lack of drugs that we take for granted."






"This statistic alone makes a fool of the idea many of us hold on to very tightly:







the idea of EQUALITY.





What is happening in Africa mocks our pieties,



doubts our concern,



and questions our commitment to that whole concept.





Because if we're honest, there's no way we could conclude that such mass death




day




after




day




would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.



Certainly not in North America, or Europe, or Japan.






An entire CONTINENT bursting into flames?





Deep down, if we really accept that their lives ----






African lives -------




are equal to ours,






we would all be doing






MORE





to put the fire out.













It's an uncomfortable truth."










--- Bono, 2004
excerpt from his foreword in the book "The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time" by Jeffrey Sachs

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hope that my blog MOVED you to anger, frustration, sadness even.


it would certainly be shocking to simply NOT FEEL anything..


i guess due to my course (Development Studies) i've been feeling more and more distracted by such a reality. im not saying that people from other college courses dont feel any sympathy towards this situation.. it's more of.. the fact that this would be MY LIFE after college, that i had chosen this path to take, makes me all the more attached and easily affected by such cruel facts of life.


anyhow! i've started to read the book "The End of Poverty" by Jeffrey Sachs. one of the main reasons why i placed the excerpt here in my blog :) currently, im reading harry potter as well! hahahah. i swear i feel like such a bad student because i read more chapters of harry potter than the readings i should have finished. heehee. :p

sige, gotta go back to harry. miss ko na .. hahaha.


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you are my sweetest downfall.