What are we doing here?

[ergon2008]

"Food aid doesn’t address the root causes of hunger: it’s a band-aid for emergencies that require immediate attention. Despite all of its faults, emergency food aid is still extremely important for addressing immediate hunger needs, but must be accompanied by programs and policies that protect small farmer and pastoralist livelihoods, support sustainable agriculture and protect natural resources."

Shoshana Perrey - "Food Aid in Africa: A Profitable Business"

[bongoman37]

THE SONG IS: GUA by Emmanuel Jal

watch?v=nAtMME7Vv88

[ipegasus]

We could greatly change poverty condition all over the world when we actually learn how people interact with each other. We have to meet people at their level and offer them ways to get out of poverty. Most religious organizations have failed because their underlying cause is to convert them to become one of them. Instead of just proving them with the tools, education and resources that they need to thrive. The United Nations has failed miserably in not promoting and supporting good leaders.

[Slimdawgc]

Looks like a fabulous movie. Can anyone tell me what the song is, that is playing the background? Also, I'd like to know the name of the artist.

[essy111]

Their making idiots out of them pouring sacks of food out of aeroplanes their human beings not birds

[Norseflyer]

Here's a complex moral question for you:

Is it better if aid stops today and a million people starve to death, or that populations are artificially sustained indefinately while the threat of starvation, poverty and sufferring are ongoing for the next 50 years, and affect a great deal more lives?

[PrinceBerzelius]

@Norseflyer My personal opinion is that if you tame an animal, it becomes weaker than it was on its own. ..help them, yes. but by giving them a chance to work for their food and home.

[Slimdawgc]

@Norseflyer If aid is ineffective, then millions of people are going to die anyway. I fail to see the relevance of your point. You present us with a false dichotomy between aid and life, and no aid and horror - the reality of poverty is much more complex than such notions.

[Norseflyer]

I haven't seen this film yet, so can only comment based on my limited knowledge to date. In my opinion many of Africa's poorest nations have had their populations not only artificially sustained, but grown, by untied foreirn aid. This causes an enormous problem for this generation and those to come as the moral argument to stop aid would be complex.

[cpmower]

Handouts never work. It is about relationship, and partnership, and education, "teaching the man how to fish" and what to do when that pond runs dry.

[lvestklein]

The second part of the trailer has music by Emmanuel Jal - the song is called "GUA" and the CD is called "Ceasefire"

[nenaprasno]

Does anyone know who the artist is performing the song for the trailer?

[Fortdani]

I've seen the movie at the HUB conference in San Francisco and I was really moved. I lived in West Africa and was impressed by these youths' perspicatity and how clearly they identified the problems. It's about time we review our ways in the humanitarian aid field. We have to learn more about the reality and the needs of the people we want to reach. Does anyone know the title of that great song?

[inmyeyes45]

I saw this film at Loyola on the 16th. I really enjoyed it because it made me consider things about the aid efforts in Africa that I had never considered before. Just like many other things, people are only aware of what they see from the media. This film made very good points and I would recommended.

[biggggbear]

buy will it make people give less money to Africa? When people are starving, there is no time to consider these sort of detials -you must help

[islandhopper8]

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[Illini4Lyfe]

Go big or go home!

[Slimdawgc]

What song is playing in the background?

[gibwak]

this is great. my dad is from uganda and i studied abroad there in college, and my class was bewildered. we didn't (and maybe still dont) know how to make a difference. ive since gone into public health, and hope that people can learn the complex realities of global poverty (esp in africa) from great work like this.

[eurotrash239]

any solutions being suggested?

i definitely want to see this, just hope it doesn't turn into an excuse to give up on Africa and do nothing.

[biggggbear]

most Africa documentaries or news programs make African's look like helpless victims - this movie at least focuses on the problems and solutions so we can make things better. Africans don't need charity or pitty - they need a level playing field and investment.

[stargaz3r2]

Wonderful.  Really looking forward to watching this.

[heppelle]

a must see for anyone that wants to understand the world we live in and figure out the best way to make a difference.

[MamaAfrica]

Can't wait for this film to come out. An important piece of investigative film. THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!!!

[SarahGDirects]

This film is a must-see. I learnt a lot and it opened my heart. Respect to the Klein family.