neutral humanitarian agencies, period. they do not get involved or bogged down with the political issues. when you mentioned about being there in 1992, i believe we have some video from the documentary. this is where hundreds of thousands of people died. would you feel safe to go back and do this again, do a documentary like this around the current crisis? i will do anything that it takes to help make put a platform and an issue for people to see the gravity of what s going on. obviously the security situation? somalia is really, really bad. if i do, i would go under the auspices of save the children, as i said, the somali people know them, trust them. they have been on the ground for 20 years, they are the best effort to the people who will be able to save the children of somalia. mind you we re talking about the future of somalia, because malnutritioned children, it s not like you feed them and then they are fine.
that s not how it works. these people will be affected for generations. we re trying to stop that from happening. the threat now is to lose an entire generation. that s exactly why it s so urgent that we need the donors to step up and help to save the children. other organizations, if anybody is interested in knowing how to help, they can go to save safe the children.org. in these tough economic times, even a single dollar has to be transparent. this is why i m involved with save the children, because it is transparent and every dollar, goes dr 95% of it goes to the ground, and the other 5%, what we do, is we try to get the other dollar. that s great work, iman, and thank you for the powerful volley. we wish you the best of luck. thank you. you are welcome. anything, if you want to help out, go to msnbc.com, and
what the u.n. has called roads of death, lined with mothers, children, elderly men, and women who were sometimes too weak to take the journey to kenya or. iman, nice to have you on this morning, bringing such a great voice to what s taking place in your native country. when we look at the numbers there are right now, more than 2 million have been cut off from any help. so, in your experience, is this just the tip of the iceberg of what the real problem is there, of how bad this could get? yes, this is the tip of the huge problem that is facing them. i want to give you a history of what s going on. the warning signs of drought were predicted in november last year and save the children org
regardless of the conflict, regardless of the political issue, this is a humanitarian catastrophe of what s happening there. the food will be getting there if the donors and and i m appealing to your average person to really donate money so the ngos really get in and get the food to the people who need it. mind you, save the children is feeding 9,000 malnutritioned children monthly, and they re saying the numbers are doubling by the day. so this really is an urgent need, but it s not hopeless. the warning signs were there, they were ignored, and now the it s time for the rich donors and humanitarian donors to give the money the organizations need. they will be involved in this conflict areas, political issues, but they are staying
was the last famine. imagine 200,000 people died in that famine. now, this is twice as much, and it s getting to aastronomical numbers. but there are ngos on the ground, like save the children, who have been there for 20 years and the somali people trust. when we talk about save the children, that s the charity you support, also the u.n. will be making this drop, but logistically, politically it s really difficult to get foot to the people that need it there, especially with this situation, al qaeda-linked militants are keeping food from getting to the kids. how frustrating is that to you, that aid is on its way, but not reaching its destination. imto say it is reaching its intended destination, for example, like save the children, what they do, first of all, they have been in the country for 20 years, a lot of people have left somali because of its conflict and political issues, but