Organizations like UNICEF are neverendingly busy trying to help alleviate hunger and poverty. Just recently, hunger and flooding in
Burundi have killed children, made many homeless or kept them out of school for days. The death toll is mounting and needless to say, these people need a helping hand to see them through the tragedy that has befallen their nation.
I have once written about whether one can live on $1 a day. At least 60 per cent of these people live in less. What is sad is that the cost of their most affordable source of protein, beans, has almost doubled.
The UN is working to help provide food to more than 2 million Burundians. But their efforts don't end there. They also have a program to provide psychosocial support and recreational activities to children who can no longer go to school. An estimate still has to be completed on the extent of funding needed to help rebuild homes, schools and provide food to the Burundians.
What's good to know is that parents of school children are doing their share to help themselves by rebuilding the schools damaged by flooding so the children can go back to school soon. It's a community of people trying to help rebuild their own lives to bring some normalcy back in what otherwise would be a seemingly hopeless situation.
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