8 minute crash course on Somalia

This is a quick video on the history of Somalia before 1992 for those (like me) who know almost nothing of the background of this country and its current struggle.

A search within myself begins

I am a girl with a mission. I feel like I have lost the ability to care. I have lost that important human capability of caring for the suffering of another enough to try to stop it. This blog is my search for my humanity. Lately, I wrote this on my blog page and it has inspired me to create a new blog which deals exclusively with my search for myself.

I am ashamed at my lack of knowledge in the world and have begun reading headline world news daily, often trying to read both the headline stories as well as less-covered-but-still-important articles. Lately I have come across something that shocked me.

Alright, so I saw the movie Black Hawk Down and read the book (partly) and felt horror and sadness for the people living in Somalia, but I never did follow-up research on the country. I assumed that, since I saw the movie years after it had been made, that the unrest had most likely been solved. Or, if not solved, I assumed someone important was working on some way to help the people living there to establish peace.

Nope.
I was wrong.

On my igoogle I get BBC and CBC headlines which pop up and the other say one which popped up was UN Says Somalia Needs More Help. I read it and moved on to the next article, then the next one, the next, the next, and finally, the last one.

How is this country not receiving more attention? How can this country have been going through so much turmoil and chaos with barely a peep
out of the media? Maybe I've blind and deaf; maybe I've been an ostridge with my head in the sand. I hope so because if that's the case
then something has been done and I've simply not noticed. Does anyone
know of some way I can help? Some way I can influence change? Anything?

I feel helpless and useless; knowing something HAS to be done but doing nothing about it myself.

A friend of mine reminded me that even posting about it is doing something. So, I am creating a blog and hoping to tell people about our humanity, and how lost it is. Maybe then we can go looking for it.