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In this chapter. William is taking off, with college, and his education, his windmill, and with life, Because he put his mind to it and proved that Africa is resourceful. William proves himself to the world all by just building a windmill.

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" If you want to make it, all you have to do is try."

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Chapter 15

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the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.

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a section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened.

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an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference:

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A venture capitalist is an investor who either provides capital to startup ventures or supports small companies that want to expand into a larger company.

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Facts:
1. Home to Google, Apple, and facebbok( deals with global tech. companies)
2. Site of technology- focused institutions
3. There is a museum of technology innovations.

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"Africans bend what little they haveto their will every day. Using creativity, they overcome Africa's challenges. Where the world sees trash, Africa recycles. Where the world sees junk, Africa sees rebirth."

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Protective
Strong-willed

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In this chapter, William is given a big opportunity and he leaves for college, TED also has interest in him, and although William has a few struggles back at home with responsibility, he is becoming even more flexiable and focusing on many things including his education.

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"Wait a minute," He said. "Your'e the guy with the windmill."

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Chapter 14

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I feel TED represents Ideas because you have the chance to make and perform a task that is turned into a brilliant creation that you get to share with the world.

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Technology
Engineering
Design

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Come and See why Windsor Chico Care Center has become the choice for skilled nursing and rehab services in the area. Our team of professionals understand the importance of creating a warm, comfortable environment for all residents. Let us show you how we help people recover from surgery, injury and serious illness.

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William and his creation are now recieving validation because he has proven himslef worthy to the community by showing this impresive, working machine that he built all by himself.

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Helpful
Caring
Intellegent

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A group of students came up with this bar of soap that is like bug spray. The soap can be used for third world countries to not only prevent disease carried by mosquitos, but to also stay clean because it is soap.

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This chapter is full of so many important events that happen in William's life, His mother catches malaria, he works some more on his windmill and explores and experiments with biogas, but most importantly, he educates his village on the dangers of Aids.

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“In science we invent and create,’ I said. ‘We make new things that can benefit our situation. If we can all invent something and put it to work, we can change Malawi.”

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Chapter 13

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William's role in using this play is creative. He not only educates his people but he also explains that you cannot judge a book by it's cover and that some people are just starving and not contagious with aids

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1. 69% of people in Africa have this diease
2. Aids cannot be cured and that leaves many Africans to die or spread the disease.
3. African people cannot tell if a person has aids just by looking at them because hunger has some of the same symptoms as aids

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a disease in which there is a severe loss of the body's cellular immunity, greatly lowering the resistance to infection and malignancy.

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The events in the chapter that would be considered weird were the wild beast and the witch children.

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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two former students from Burkina Faso have designed a mosquito-repellent soap, which they hope could be a simple and affordable solution in the fight to end malaria, but more funds are needed to test the idea, according to the startup behind it.

Moctar Dembélé and Gérard Niyondiko, the brains behind Faso Soap, were awarded a $25,000 prize for their invention in 2013 when they became the first African winners of the Global Social Venture Competition at the University of California Berkeley.

Yet Faso Soap must be tested to ensure it is safe for human use and effective at preventing malaria before it can be mass produced by soap manufacturers in Africa, said Franck Langevin, campaigns director for the Ouagadougou-based startup.

The soap, created from natural oils and plants, could prove successful in preventing malaria as it would be cheap and rely on existing habits of African households, Langevin said.

"People in Africa are very reluctant to change their habits, but soap is present in most homes, and is used for bathing, cleaning the house and washing clothes," he said.

The soap is designed to repel mosquitoes up to six hours after being applied, and once soapy water is thrown away on the street, hinder the insects from breeding in stagnant water.

"It is a simple and affordable weapon in the fight against malaria," Langevin told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Last month, Faso Soap launched a crowd funding appeal for $113,000 to finalize the development of the soap with the aim of distributing it in six African countries hardest-hit by malaria by 2018, working with soap manufacturers and aid agencies.

Last year, there were 214 million cases of malaria worldwide with the mosquito-borne disease killing 438,000 people, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.

Jo Lines, reader of malaria control and vector biology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, praised the idea behind the soap, but said it would be dangerous to rely on an untested product to protect against malaria.

As a social startup, Langevin said Faso Soap has struggled to attract funding from donors, including the World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations children's agency (UNICEF), prompting the inventors to turn to crowd funding.

World leaders committed to ending malaria by 2030 when they adopted the Sustainable Development Goals last year.

Europe last month became the first region to be declared malaria-free after reporting no indigenous cases in 2015, and a former WHO official said the world can eliminate the disease soon, but only with more investment to end and keep it at bay.

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Two former students from Burkina Faso have designed a mosquito-repellent soap, which they hope could be a simple and affordable solution in the fight to end malaria, but more funds are needed to test the idea, according to the startup behind it.

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The connection to the moto brick is that the Moto brick was extracted from trash or waste as well.

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Biogas is fuel that is extracted from methane

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William's failed whats next is the water pipe line for pumping water, He trys to extend the pipe line but the pressure blocks water from coming out.

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It's negative, it means that you barley try without any effort, you hanging on by a limb in life and youre going no where besides where the wind takes you.

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In this chapter, William becomes the inventor or parent of this wonderful, almost fuly working windmill, and he is always making edits, and in the end he is very proud of his creation, with or without the scars.

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"well, yes," he said. " Butt also because my very own son made it."

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chapter 12

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Mr. Godsten now views William as no longer a fool, but now a responsible scientist and accepts his materials that he needs to weld.

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he has light in his room, he is able to charge phones, and he also is able to depend on that windmill for electricty besides the appliances he already has, also the village views him as a geneius and no longer a mad man who smokes weed.

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pulley system
constructed a circuit breaker

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1.  A circuit breaker is designed to "trip" the electric folw when a fault is detected
2. Used in electrical appliances as a  protective swirch that protects the appliance from becoming damaged
3. Stabalizes voltage

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Facts:
1.  English  Scientist
2. Author of books on electricity
3. Is known for pioneering in the field of electricity, more into the electromagnetism, though

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Facts:
1.  Divides Voltage
2.  Cannot produce power, only convert it
3. Isolates power from glitches

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" 'Something like that', i said smiling. ' Just wait. You'll be in for a supirse along with everyone else"

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Chapter Eleven

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" He kneeled down to face me. 'please understand me son, Pepani kwamniri. Your father tried."

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In this chapter, William stops attending school wich is difficult for him, but he shows perseverance and he starts working on something better than school work; Electricty.

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Chapter Ten

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The quality of being thankful

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- Uses his father's bike for the windmill's proper function
- Goes to the scrap yard to find parts and pieces that are needed.

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The children and other villagers start bullying William saying that he smokes weed, he then ignores them and continues with a smile on his face and agrees with them giving them no foundation because it no longer bothers William.

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He dosent get bummed out when he has to stop going to school, instead he replaces it with learning and exploring science

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Are you just Crazy or are you on something

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Are you just Crazy or are you on something

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The first inventor is Ignaz Semmelweis. He invented basic hygiene for hospitals. People werent used to this idea and thought that it was a waste of time and got offended that he saw them as dirty. Over all, it stopped the spread of bacteria. The second inventor is Thomas Edison was called crazy and his idea was trash becasue he wanted to explore and define A/C

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1. It costs less to educate a student in Africa then in America
2. Africa is working on abolishing school fees because the percentage of poverty in Africa

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South African National Department of Basic Education

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William is staarting to put his science goggles on and he is ready to learn about electricity and put aside his hunger pains and school worries.

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"I think youre going above and beyond your fellow students. They are not studying this stuff."

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Fish climbing a tree: Boy climbing a windmill

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Fish climbing a tree: Boy climbing a windmill

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Electricity that can be emitted from other objects and transfers through waves

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An instrument detecting and measuring electricity

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A device allowing the flow of current

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Kinetic energy is the energy produced by movment

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William is just like the character described in the video because he wants more for his people and he also wants a better school life for himself. He wants to create electricity in an inventive way and bring it to his famliy and his people of Malawi.

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This is an amazing video

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William's family,including himself, go through great hardships, but yet pull through and end up with a lot of hope and a lot of dowe.

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"Thats right Mister Gefforey. We lived. We survived."

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Chapter Eight

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What is hopeful about the ending of Chapter Eight?

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What is hopeful about the ending of Chapter Eight?

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What I think is hopeful is the fact that William's family finally has food because the Dowe was ready, and the family is aldo learning how to forgive those who were hungry and just trying to save themselves from hunger by stealing from them.

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An epidemic is a wide spread issue that takes control of somebodys rights, or health, etc.

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cholera is an infetion of the small intestine that causes death in some cases.
1. Caused by drinking contanimaneted water
2. Cholera can be treated with antibiotics but if left untreated, it can cause death
3. Extremely rare in the U.S (1 case in 2015)
4. Short-term Disease resolves within weeks
5. Common in third wrol conutries due to lack of clean water or food

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I am furious, because the poor dog was slowly dying, i get that, but what I don't understand is why William left him there. You can create a windmill but you can't put a dog out of it's misery properly? Leaving the dog was a horrible mistake and infact, listening to his stupid cousins friend was a horrible mistake. I just wish there was a better outcome.

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"It tickeled the back of my brain." p.142
Metaphor

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"It had only been filled with air, an in nothingness, pain."
Figurative Language: Euphisem

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Chapter Seven

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¨every man for himself. Were on our own.¨

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Chapter Seven

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Malaria is a disease that is carried by mosquitoes
FACTS:
1. Only 20,000 cases in the US
2.  Also called  plasmodium Infection
3. Symptoms are chills, fever, and sweating
4. Usually occurs  after travelers get back from their vacation
5. You must consult a doctor about this disease because it is critical

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Chapter Six

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"So starting next evening, we ate our single meal of the day."

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Chapter Six

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Mob mentality was shown when the old man was trampled because the people were so hungry and were rushing. What they should of done was stop and help the old man up, but because hunger took over, they thought about their starving family, and their own hunger and ran over him.

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Relating to a way an organism functions or a bodily part functions
- your body goes into ¨Starve Mode¨ which means your body stops producing as much energy because you need to conserve energy, your body slowly loses muscle mass, you cannot concentrate because you are so hungry

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Past efforts for the African Famine Relief:

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Past efforts for the African Famine Relief:

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Past efforts have been to attack the not so big problems that lay underneath the big issue itself. I have an article explaining a little bit more.

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Famine in Africa: The Failure of the World System

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Famine in Africa is the cause of failed foreign aid & development programs to modernize agriculture. HIV/AIDS and climate change are now making things worse

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Organizations:
- WFP(World Food Programme)
- Save the Children
- UNICEF

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arvest should be the time for celebrations, weddings and full bellies in southern Malawi. But Christopher Witimani, Lilian Matafle and their seven children and four grandchildren had nothing to celebrate last week as they picked their meagre maize crop.

Last year's drought, followed by erratic rains, hit the village of Nkhotakota hard. But this year the rains never came and, for a second year running, the family grain store is empty. If they manage their savings carefully and eat just one small meal a day, they may just have enough food for two more months.

By August, said Irish charity Concern Worldwide, they and tens of thousands of other small farmers in southern Malawi will have completely run out of food, with no prospect of another harvest for at least seven months. With nothing to sell and no chance of earning money, Witimani, Matafle and family will starve.

"I am worried the children will starve to death. I don't know what to do," said Matafle.

"We need food. We are in a desperate situation," her husband added.

Countries are just waking up to the most serious global food crisis of the last 25 years. Caused by the strongest El Niño weather event since 1982, droughts and heatwaves have ravaged much of India, Latin America and parts of south-east Asia. But the worst effects of this natural phenomenon, which begins with waters warming in the equatorial Pacific, are to be found in southern Africa. A second consecutive year without rain now threatens catastrophe for some of the poorest people in the world.

The scale of the crisis unfolding in 10 or more southern African countries has shocked the United Nations. Lulled into thinking that Ethiopia in 1985 was the last of the large-scale famines affecting many millions, donor countries have been slow to pledge funds or support. More than $650m and 7.9m tonnes of food are needed immediately, says the UN. By Christmas, the situation will have become severe.

Malawi, Mozambique, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Madagascar, Angola and Swaziland have already declared national emergencies or disasters, as have seven of South Africa's nine provinces. Other countries, including Botswana and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have also been badly hit. President Robert Mugabe has appealed for $1.5bn to buy food for Zimbabwe and Malawi is expected to declare that more than 8 million people, or half the country, will need food aid by November.

Serena Gadinala, from the in Neno district of Malawi, has tried different planting techniques but nothing worked and her crops continue to wilt. Photograph: Tamara van Vliet/OCHA

More than 31 million people in the region are said by the UN to need food now, but this number is expected to rise to at least 49 million across almost all of southern Africa by Christmas. With 12 million more hungry people in Ethiopia, 7 million in Yemen, 6 million in Southern Sudan and more in the Central African Republic and Chad, a continent-scale food crisis is unfolding.

"Food security across southern Africa will start deteriorating by July, reaching its peak between December 2016 and April 2017," says the UN's office for humanitarian affairs. The regional cereal deficit already stands at 7.9m tonnes and continues to put upward pressure on market prices, which are already showing unprecedented increases, diminishing purchasing power and thereby reducing food access. As food insecurity tightens and water scarcity increases due to the drought, there are early signs of acute malnutrition in Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabawe.

For Coco Ushiyama, head of the UN's World Food Programme in Lilongwe, Malawi's capital, just working out how to import a million tonnes of food, needed to support between five million and eight million people in Malawi over the next 12 months, is proving nightmarishly difficult. With no guarantees of money from donors, she cannot buy the food on the open market, or book ships and transport.

"We are very concerned. Last year, like many other countries in the region, Malawi had a double disaster with erratic rains and then floods which led into droughts," said Ushiyama. "Last year, 2.8 million people were affected. Then we had a deficit of 220,000 tonnes of food. This year, we are anticipating it will be four times as bad. The maize price is already exceptionally high.

"We are monitoring 50 markets throughout the country and already they are seeing abnormally high prices. We have very worryingly high admission rates for childhood malnutrition in health clinics. In some areas it is very serious already and it is likely to get much more serious. It will be a regional issue," she said.

The government has declared a disaster and will publish a new assessment of its needs in the next few weeks. The vice-president, Saulos Chilima, has said that about 1.3m tonnes of maize will be needed.

Politicians may talk of going on to the world market to buy a million tonnes of maize, but Ushiyama is unsure where it will come from. There is usually enough food in the region, but South Africa, which usually exports a million tonnes of food a year, will need to import 3.5m tonnes this year. Only Zambia may have enough food to export and it has imposed restrictions, she said.

"South Africa is in trouble. Nearby Zambia has had a better harvest than most countries but it has put export restrictions on its food. If we import it [from outside Africa], the food will take four to six months [to arrive]. We have learned from experience that the rains start in November so the roads will be terrible when the food is most needed and some lorry drivers will refuse to come. By November, we will need to have pre-positioned food in key areas. But to get it there by then means ordering the food right now," she said.

People are divide pulses among themselves at a United Nations World Food Programme food distribution centre in Chikwawa district, Malawi. Photograph: Tamara van Vliet/OCHA

Finding the cash to feed possibly 50 million people for eight or more months is the biggest problem of all, says the UN, because Africa's slow-burn crisis must compete with Middle East wars, refugees and natural disasters for attention. According to the UN, which is holding an unprecedented humanitarian summit this week in Istanbul, 125 million people worldwide need long-term assistance and a further 60 million have been forced from their homes by war, violence and disaster.

More than $1.5bn has been requested by southern African governments, says Ocha, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, but less than a quarter of this has been pledged. Officially, the deficit is $677 million (87%) but this will grow when countries complete their assessments of the harvests in the next few weeks.

"The window for responding in a meaningful manner is closing rapidly," said Shadrack Omol, senior adviser to the UN children's fund, Unicef. "The concern is that slow-onset emergencies, like the one we are dealing with in southern Africa, do not get enough attention because they creep up on us."

John Makina, Oxfam country director in Malawi, said: "The donors just do not have the money; there is donor fatigue. Malawi has been hit by drought, then floods, then drought. The donors are getting tired of it. In 2015, Malawi alone needed $170m. In 2016-17, it will be far more.

"The full impact will be felt from October to March 2017. It's looking really bad. The most affected will be the poorest and jobless. They will end up selling what little they possess. The price of maize flour has already gone to 9,000 kwachas (£8.70) for 50kg. It will double again for sure," he said.

International development minister Nick Hurd, who has visited Mozambique, wants Britain to lead the humanitarian effort. But money cannot be given directly to the country following a corruption scandal, and the government must work through a consortium of NGOs, providing food vouchers, medical aid and food-for-work schemes.

"We cannot and will not stand idly by while millions suffer. Britain is playing a leading role in helping countries across Africa to cope with the impact of El Niño. Support for people affected by El Niño is important to Africa and also firmly in Britain's national interest," says Hurd.

In villages across southern Africa, people are fearful, unsure how they will survive. In Mozambique, where Britain is contributing £11.8m over three years, some food aid has arrived in the village of Mblalava.

A farmer tries to grow crops with the help of a United Nations supported irrigation scheme in the Neno district of Malawi. Photograph: Tamara van Vliet/OCHA

The women are ecstatic: "It's been two and a half years since we had good rain," said Rosita Chauque, a mother of three. "When the drought started we used to be able to find vegetables in the bush, but even these have gone now. We used to make and sell charcoal, but there are so many other people doing that now it's not possible. We have thought of leaving, but where to? We have no crops in the fields, no food for the cattle and nothing for ourselves. There is no water, no grass. People are selling their animals. They have no other resources. There is a lot of suffering."

"The situation is critical," said Abdoulaye Balde, the World Food Programme country director in Mozambique's capital, Maputo. "We are at the point of no return."

Droughts and "hungry seasons" are common throughout southern Africa, but the breadth of this year's crisis is very unusual, says Caoimhe de Barra, Malawi country director of Concern Worldwide. Her frontline workers see rural people already employing traditional coping strategies, including eating wild foods, taking children out of school, selling their animals and assets.

"Early action is key. If we can start supporting people now, we can save lives and prevent an even worse situation later this year. People are not currently dying of hunger but the overall health of the population will be severely affected by hunger-related illnesses. Malnutrition will blight the life chances of countless more Malawian children," she said.

The secretary general of the International Red Cross, Elhadj As Sy, who visited Malawi and Zimbabwe last week, said: "Much more needs to be done to support communities to survive and strive over the coming months. We met families who have received no external support and who are simply desperate. We need to urgently scale up our interventions to prevent this situation from becoming a catastrophe," he said.

Relief from Africa's long drought may finally be coming, says the World Meteorological Organisation, which is monitoring the temperature of waters in the Pacific. These are said to be cooling rapidly and are expected to be "neutral" by mid-June. That, says the UN, signals the coming end of the El Niño, the droughts and the worldwide heatwaves.

The effects, however, will not be felt in southern Africa until April 2017 when the next main harvest should be in. But, says the WMO, there may be a sting in the tale. There is a 50:50 chance that the continent will be hit from September by El Niño's climatic "twin", known as La Niña, which develops as the Pacific Ocean equatorial waters cool after an El Niño.

Instead of droughts, La Niña usually brings heavier monsoon rains in south-east Asia and much cooler and wetter conditions in southern Africa.

"We pray hard for rain and then we must pray harder that it stops. Is there no end of extreme weather?" said Malawian villager Richard Kapenda.

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A second year without rain threatens to bring catastrophe for some of the poorest people in the world. Donor countries, in the grip of wars and refugee crises, have been slow to pledge funds. But by the time they do, it could be too late

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- If a girl likes a guy enough, then she will ask him to meet her family
- Then he will visit for several week in a row
- If it goes well and the guy senses he is safe within the family, he proposes
- the girl talks to her uncle (but not literally, instead, she will talk to her mother and then they will talk and then her father will talk to his wife's brother
- Then the uncle of the groom and the uncle of the bride conversate and find a price of dowry for the brides family

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1. 800,000 people of the Tutsi were murdered
2. Rwanda had one of the biggest population densities in Africa.
3. The Tutsis were murdered by the Hutus, who wanted to take control of their political ranking.

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¨But please understand, that were also here at war in Malawi, and that war is against hunger.¨

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Chapter Five

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Chapter Five:
1. ESCOM has electricity for high amounts of money, only for the people to be paying for power cuts
2. ADMARC hoards food and sold all of their supply leaving the people with nothing
3.The president bought the peoples election votes by tossing the poor enough kachwa to feed themselves.

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In which the blood has limited red blood cells due to starvation.

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Five signs:
1.Breakfast disappears
2. physical features (Skinny to the point of your ribcage appearing)
3.Resort to food they feed animals
4. Sell their animals for food
5. Ganyu

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The malawians are poor because the trees in Africa keep the rain from turning to floods. If the floods rise higher then trash is washed into the river where people gather their water.

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The act of clearing a wide range of trees.

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As the world seeks to slow the pace of climate change, preserve wildlife, and support more than eight billion people, trees inevitably hold a major part of the answer. Yet the mass destruction of trees-deforestation-continues, sacrificing the long-term benefits of standing trees for short-term gain of fuel, and materials for manufacturing and construction.

We need trees for a variety of reasons, not least of which is that they absorb the carbon dioxide we exhale and the heat-trapping greenhouse gases that human activities emit. As those gases enter the atmosphere, global warming increases, a trend scientists now prefer to call climate change.

There is also the imminent danger of disease caused by deforestation.

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Deforestation and Its Effect on the Planet

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As the world seeks to slow the pace of climate change, preserve wildlife, and support more than eight billion people, trees inevitably hold a major part of the answer. Yet the mass destruction of trees-deforestation-continues, sacrificing the long-term benefits of standing trees for short-term gain of fuel, and materials for manufacturing and construction.