Nigeria now tops the list of countries with the highest number of malnourished children,
http://allafrica.com/stories/200607190187.html

Tell me something i dont know its so sad i wish i could do something to help but i dont know how i can help those poor children

Orikinla: are your children hungry?

Shawna: are you children hungry?

UNICEF wants money. What do you expect them to say? That we are not hungry?

Of Course they're hungry!!!

the Only thing left IS for them to die Outta hunger!

Seun:


Shawna: are you children hungry?

UNICEF wants money. What do you expect them to say? That we are not hungry?

First of all i dont have children lol and am pretty sure there are some hungry children in nigerian i wish i could do something for those children and other children around the world who are starving but what can i do am just a kid myself

Seun,
I have toured Nigeria and I was a consultant for the Unicef in 1988. I have seen hungry children and as a former refugee child, I can tell you that there are more starving children in Nigeria than well-fed ones in your GRAs.

Go on tour of Mushin, Badiya, Oshodi and other ghettos in Lagos alone and you would be weeping and singing "Save The Children".

I have seen many poor children feeding like dogs on the streets in Lagos alone.

@Shawna,
You can donate to the Unicef in Nigeria.

Well i know that there are poor people everywhere and that there are hungry children too, but i refuse to believe that Nigeria has the highest number of malnourished kids.
this country is rich, we may have had bad leaders and all that but we're not doing badly either, the kids are hungry. Itz not just something that happens in nigeria, it happens everywhere. so please letz not say nigeria has the highest number of those kids.
there are other african countries that can't even feed their adults, talk less of their kids

Orikinla: are your children hungry?

Shawna: are you children hungry?

UNICEF wants money. What do you expect them to say? That we are not hungry?

Good question Seun. most of this hungry childred you see begging on the streets are not even Nigerians they are from neighboring countries.

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Good question Seun. most of this hungry childred you see begging on the streets are not even Nigerians they are from neighboring countries.

And,  good grief, someone started a thread why are Nigerians so backward? this is pathetic.

To the above quotes,so what? what i say?. See this ''it's not happening in my backyard so i will remain blinded to my neighbour's'' is truly sad.


Again WHY ARE NIGERIANS SO BACKWARDS? and damn selfish?


@Orinkila

save your breath. Some people kill the spirit of goodwill in others. Then when the white man decides to do something, thesame people will say ''  what is their business?''  ''they showing us in a bad light''( the like of Geldof and many more) . I tell you Nobody shows the whole continent in a worse light than the Africans themselves. Truly pathetic ways of thinking.

I live in Sango Ota and most of the children I come accross are more robust than I was when I was young. The only problem is the abuse their loving parents deliver in the name of "discipline". I often have to close my ears in order not to hear a child next door screaming "mummy please" and getting 24 - 50 strokes of body koboko.

Gosh i give up Orinkila you are on your own

Eurphoria,
There is one model I posted on here and most people did not know why?

I have known her when she was living with her family in the ghetto behind the Idi Oro market in Mushin, Lagos. And the tenement was overcrowded with tenants with hungry children who always came to look for what to eat from the model's family's two rooms apartment.

One of the hungry children I called "Omo Iya Alakara" and he was such a pathetic toddler. And visitng this model was an ordeal for me as I passed through the slums and saw poverety-stricken people living like dogs on the streets.

As a member of the Deeper Christian Life Church, I was made the visitation team leader and house captain, because of my devotion to visiting the poor and sharing the hope of the salvation in Jesus Christ with them. The deplorable conditions of their dwelling places in Shomolu often made me weep and depressed.

May God help us to see beyond our noses.
Amen.

@orinkila

Listen don't let the bad people get you down it's refreshing to see someone like you here, truly. I am no angel and you have inspired me to do some thing and i will tell you about it some time soon.

You show compassion for the less fourtunate and thats a good quality , because it is so easy to turn a blind eye(i am guilty of that ) but hey life is a working proogress and i hope you keep doing what you doing in any capacity possible , nothing is too small.

The kids truly break my heart and it doesn't have to be a great number before action is taken, one is enough. Doing something about poverty or needy people does not make one a saint or should not make one sanctimonious. I say this because like many i have faults but if one selfless act is done then it counts for a lot.

Rise above culture,society and spirit killing attitudes
Keep you head up my brother

When I hear people going on and on about starving children in Africa, I wonder why such people are not farmers!

Hungry children are the product of poor parents who are not smart enough to refrain from reproduction. Tackle that.

Such children, if they exist, simply don't know where to find orphanages where they can be fed. Have you ever tried just guiding them to one before? If not, then you have not done enough. Talkers talk and doers do!

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Our differences make the world go round, sanctimony is great till circumstance alters one's views in life.

Nuff said

And,  good grief, someone started a thread why are Nigerians so backward? this is pathetic.

If you do not know, one of Nigerians problems is that she gives too much to Africa rather than concentrate on itself. you claim Nigeria is selfish; nothing can be further away from the truth. I will not go into how much Naija has given and is still giving to many African countries, including Ghana. But concentrate on the topic at hand. Before I left Naija there was this influx of fake oyibo children everywhere holding your hand, begging for kobo kobo. But nowadays, black ones are coming in, they blend in easily, so you think they are Nigerians. The other day on CNN seven American children were found in Nigeria begging for food. This has to stop. 

Seun,
Why are the majority of African farmers poor peasants?

The majority of African farmers are not poor peasants. I know a family friend involved in mechanized crop production and poultry farming on a large scale, as well as selling of feed and manure . In Ogun State!

I hope your friend is not Baba Iyabo in Otta?

there are some hungry children in nigeria but that they are more in number than in other countries is questionable.