Monday, August 23, 2010

Life in Sudan: Can We Help?



Last night I was out with a bunch of friends, and queerly the argument wasn’t about a movie, a soccer game, or someone’s net worth, but about the very same country that we criticize every day, Sudan, the main point, which everybody agreed on, was that this country has the potentials to become prominent in different areas of development, but each has a different view about what’s really drawing it back, some blame it on the government, and others blame it on the people. To be frank we don’t really know what the cause for the whole thing is, it might be one of them or a combination of both, yet it might help to know which one was the trigger that caused the other to go off track, although they might have taken that role interchangeably.

But I think we’re more obtuse than a fly speeding towards an ultraviolet trap, because we’ve been wasting an immense amount of time arguing about what the cause is, while having the problem right under our noses, and we're doing absolutely nothing about it. I know exactly what’s going on your minds now: “What the hell can we do? How can we make a difference? It’s going to be a total waste of time”, and that’s exactly the kind of negative thinking that drives us awry, resulting in us becoming part of the problem we’re trying to solve.

Having a population of approximately 42 Million (CIA Fact Book July 2010 Estimation), about 50% are of age ranging from 18 to 60, and 60% represents the literacy rate, assuming these statistics are correct, it means we’re having about 11.6 Million individuals, take half of the 11.6 M and it's the number of people who can contribute in solving this enigma. So instead of wasting our time blaring about this issue we can invest our time providing the help we can, I mean we can use what-the-hell-ever we have at hand now(money, knowledge, etc…) to help those less fortunate, who in their turn can help others(remember the movie Pay It Forward). If similar methods became divulged among the 5.8 Million individuals, we "sure" can move this country forward.