{"id":1150,"date":"2006-03-06T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/06\/remember-that-make-poverty-history-nonsense\/"},"modified":"2007-01-20T21:51:13","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T21:51:13","slug":"remember-that-make-poverty-history-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/remember-that-make-poverty-history-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember that Make Poverty History nonsense?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember all that guff at Live8 and the G8 summit last summer &#8211; all the Geldof and chums self-congratulatory, self-promoting heartfelt appeals, all the Blairy-fairy rubbish about saving starving Africans?<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2006\/03\/05\/wsomali05.xml&amp;sSheet=\/news\/2006\/03\/05\/ixworld.html\">it&#8217;s had precisely tit all impact<\/a> &#8211; aid groups are predicting death tolls of upwards of 11 million over the coming months as vast swathes of central\/eastern Africa head into the spring after two years without rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>They have no food, no water, and no hope. They are already dying, and it hasn&#8217;t even begun to get REALLY hot yet.<\/p>\n<p>Time to help out, folks:<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icrc.org\/web\/eng\/siteeng0.nsf\/html\/news-somalia-030306?opendocument\">Red Cross Horn of Africa Bulletin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christian-aid.org.uk\/eastafrica\/index.htm\">Christian Aid East Africa appeal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/what_we_do\/emergencies\/country\/foodcrisis\/index.htm\">Oxfam Food Crisis appeal<\/a><\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember all that guff at Live8 and the G8 summit last summer &#8211; all the Geldof and chums self-congratulatory, self-promoting heartfelt appeals, all the Blairy-fairy rubbish about saving starving Africans? Well, it&#8217;s had precisely tit all impact &#8211; aid groups &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/remember-that-make-poverty-history-nonsense\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rest-of-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}