Reply #147: Another way to write that...

[jmowreader]

Meet Hamid, a hypothetical child in sub-Saharan Africa. He's two years old, two and half feet tall and weighs 20 pounds. He has tiny hands and tiny feet and piercing dark eyes. Each day his little tummy rumbles in pain because he struggles to get enough to eat. He will likely die soon.

Hamid lives, if what Hamid endures on a daily basis can truly be called living, in a country with a corrupt dictator. There's no real problem with food supply. In fact, it's arguable that we have far too much food. Hamid's problem is his country's dictator, who confiscates all the food imported into Hamid's country. Soldiers' children in Hamid's country eat well, but because Hamid's father was killed in an uprising a year ago Hamid's basically screwed.

The hypothetical non-governmental organization Gardens for the Hungry attempted to establish community-supported agriculture in Hamid's country. They helped his countrymen plant 53 percent of Hamid's country in every kind of crop you can think of, from corn to lettuce. Two days before harvest, Hamid's dictator sent his soldiers to the villages and confiscated all the crops. Chopped 'em off right down to the roots, threw 'em in a truck and drove away.

We at Soldiers for the Hungry sympathize with Hamid's plight, and offer the only solution that will possibly work. For the low, affordable donation of only $20 per month, Soldiers for the Hungry will airdrop a sniper team into Hamid's country in the middle of the night to shoot Hamid's dictator. Once he's dead, traditional NGOs who work in the field of food distribution and CSA operations can begin the work of saving Hamid's people from starvation--and, considering that Hamid's countrymen were able to plant 150,000 hectares of food and raise over 10,000 goats to marketable size after having never grown so much as a blade of grass in the last 10,000 years, we're pretty sure they'll succeed.

Soldiers for the Hungry: We save children by killing dictators. Give today.