[Legend killer]

Not a chance heck im nearly as broke as those Africans

[bananarama]

I am 70 years old and ever since I can remember appeals for the starving have been on going. We are told give us the money and we will buy the tools so they can feed themselves.

The year 2011 and nothing has changed. Still mass starvation. Feeding money is a bit like feeding a drug addict money and expect them to stop taking drugs. Tragically it doesn't work in itself.

Setting aside natural disasters some countries simply have religious or cultural beliefs that will literaly kill them in their millions regradless of how much money you spend.

Women are enslaved to MEN with their ridiculous control freak religious and cultural beliefs and are doomed to have children that cannot be fed or treated for illness. The irony is the more you make well the more indiscriminate births will happen as a result of the culture and lack of education.

Money needs to go in line with cultural and religious change......Alas the only part of that equasion going on is "money from generous people hoping in vane it will help. Cultural and religious and political change is largly absent.

So no matter how much you give or for how long nothing will change. When todays people who are giving reach my age of 70 they will find nothing they have given has stopped the starvation. Only a political and cultural miracle can do that........

[lostalex]

Africa needs to help itself, otherwise they will have nothing to be proud of itself for. Africa needs to be proud of itself, fixing it for them would steal that away from them. People need to have pride in their own land. You can't give it to someone.

[Sunny_01]

Personally I would not give up a days pay to send to any other country.

Our own country has such huge pockets of poverty and deprivation that I would rather give up a days pay to donate to something positive in the UK.