Peter Smerdon Quotes (9 Quotes)

What is a very limited window of opportunity to avert mass suffering in Kenya is closing very fast.

Time is running out fast.

Hot spots come and go due to crisis and drought, but the vast majority of people (Africans) are just too poor to feed themselves when there's a slight disruption of their environment.

If this is true, we condemn it and we urge that the looting of food aid cease immediately.

We are very saddened by any new loss of life, particularly associated with the delivery of humanitarian aid.

Unfortunately our previous warnings and appeals have received a very limited response from donors. We don't want Kenya to become another Niger, where ... donations only increased when people started dying after months of appeals for contributions to prevent deaths.

We're not crying wolf. This is a very real crisis, and it is undoubtedly going to be very painful. We hope that donors will come up with cash soon, so that we can restore full rations.

It is dramatic. We have only received 32 percent of what we need to feed 6.1 million people during the height of the hunger season.

There are all sorts of things you could do to make sure less rain does not mean more dead.