Combine to End

Did anyone see the commercials during the Olympics about the gas company that was doing all of the malaria stuff? They were this huge oil company that was dedicated to providing bed nets to people and helping fight against malaria. This was great!

But then does anyone remember back during American Idol where they had that one episode where they raised all that money for malaria and bed nets? They raised just millions of dollars, and the British government donated another like 200 million bed nets, as well. This was a great effort, and it did a lot for the fight against malaria.

Other than this, there are hundreds of other organizations that are fighting against malaria. But with all of these efforts (small-scale and then extremely large-scale) - why isn't anything being done? Why isn't malaria going away?


One of the reasons why these problems are not going away is because we are not working together. There are so many organization. There are so many resources. There are so many good people doing good things - we have to be making more progress. We cannot keep working in the vagueness and the generalities of humanitarian aid. We have to get specific. We have to get serious about ending these problems. And in order to do that we have to combine.

We have to combine our efforts if we are going to end these problems. Is it possible? Yes. Is it going to happen? I hope so. We are competing against nothing else than the disease itself. We should be combing the efforts of smaller organizations, large organizations like the oil company, and big efforts like American Idol. We should be ending these problems because we are working together to end them.

We have to combine our efforts to end these problems.

And we have to start now.