Nobody Even Cares

The Go! Team – Ladyflash

I was watching a documentary on TV late last night about childeren in Africa battling Noma disease. I didn’t know wether to laugh because the conditions and individual cases were so tragic, cry because I felt sorry, furious and helpless at the same time or throw up in pure disguist.

I don’t know if you know what Noma is. I didn’t really know what it was and what caused it, until I looked it up on Wikipedia. It’s basically a disease that causes your face to just rot. And when I say rot, I litterally mean that you’re face (mostly your mouth and cheek area) because a show of themselves. Like a black hole. It causes the flesh to just…decay. You should’ve seen they’re faces, it’s…. I can’t even begin to describe the feeling you get looking at them. you’re just in such…awe.
The documentary was filmed by two Danish men in the only hospital in Africa that treats Noma in Nigeria. There were infected childeren everywhere, just balling there little eyes out it pain. I swear, it’s the most tragic thing I’ve ever seen. Noma affects childeren between 2 and 6 years-old, and the worst thing about it is that the disease is caused by malnutrition, meaning these kids are left without a real face because they don’t get enough food. And because they don’t get enough food, they’re immune system is weak and they can’t fight it.

And this hospital…man. I wouldn’t even think twice about going there for medical attention, because it was not at all close to international standards. Patients had to sleep on the floor because of the lack of beds. The hygine was terrible, the electricity kept being cut off. They didn’t even have much food. And the people responsible for handing out food there took half of it for themeselves, so they didn’t have to go out of there way to get food. And these people get PAID for doing this.

These people have nothing. They’re unbelievably poor. It’s almost sick. It’s beyond me that people like you and me don’t even lift a finger to help them. Where is this world going? The funny thing is that Nigeria is one of the worlds richest nations because of they’re oil, yet they don’t even produce gas. It’s that ironic? The problem is that they have all the minerals, they have resources to build they’re economy, but they keep getting expolited. By us. By us and they’re corrupt goverment. It’s like Africa is the worlds playground, and we take and take and take but never give back.

The two Danish men how made this documentary were talking about the fact that if there was a case of Noma that affected some rich, white family anywhere else in the world, people would be all over the story. And it’s ture. If one, little white girl in say The United States got Noma the media would have a field day. But since this disease lives inside 400 thousand poor, black childeren in the heart of Africa nobody seems to want to talk about it. No-one wants to aknowledge the situation and face the fact that people are dying. I don’t care if you’re black, white, yellow or purple: you are a human being and derserve to be seen and you deserve help.

But nobody even cares. [click here read more about Noma]

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