>Dear Friends
>
>We need to be our brother's and sister's keeper. The drought
>situation, increase in basic food prices and other obvious reasons
>become unbearable for the mwanainchi. I believe we should celebrate
>little about undersea cables and more about how we can aleviate the
>plight of our fellow citizens. Our's is a sharing profession. One of
>the leading figures of our industry, Bill Gates has given the majority
>of his wealth to a charitable trust...
>
>I open this thread to I pray hopefully cause action. If we cannot
>contribute cash, why not use the power of the internet to flood
>websites of humanitarian institutes begging for food relief for Kenya.
>Posting and contribution to youtube videos about the situation.
>Writing realn stories on the plight. Setting up blogs, reserving a
>minimal sum for csr and the like. Please my sisters and brothers let
>us share helping our fellow family as we share technology. We cannot
>feed cables to our people, and economic change is longterm. I urge
>that we get mobilised and help. Athar

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I wholeheartedly support you in this. we need to do more to help our fellow Kenyans.
Can we setup a a relief coordination website on the my.co.ke server? Have ushahidi run it
and monitor the situation on the ground.

Simiyu