Crawl, before you learn to walk

During the five-days break which comes around every 4 years of the school history, I decided to spend it building some knowledge. I found a tab, after 6 months of owning a MacBook, titled “Latest Headlines” on firefox. I clicked on it, and it gave me a scroll list of headlines… starting from “don’t be evil” to “Bangledesh food aid set for Burma”… Burma? My weak geography skills gave me a faint idea of the location of Burma. I found it by searching Google Image.

If farmers get fair prices it gives
them morecapital to improve yield -
this could help improve
the food problems of Africa

This country, located just before Thailand is facing some unfortunate tragedies… and I’ll talk about this tomorrow in the blog… but First, I read this article about “Green Revolution” in Africa… and I realized how active UN is; not to forget to mention Korean Ban Ki Moon as the UN Secretary-General for the unanimous votes during the election.

They used some pretty smart techniques and ideas in order to keep Africa out of hunger and starvation. Who said cell phones are only used for social careers and our parents to track us down? UN had introduced the skills for Africans to text each other via cell phones, informing the best price to sell their products.

They call it the “vicious circle”. Many of the farmers in Africa were in desperate need of money. Because of that emergence, they were forced to sell their hard-work products fast at a low price. And because they got not much profit in return, they were not able to buy higher quality of seeds and so, they kept selling their products at a low price. On top of that, they were clueless of how much they actually deserved when dealing with their products.

The UN provided a program and loaned the farmers money to purchase better machineries and better seeds, with the support of cell phone text messages to earn better money. Then, they did not struggle or be chased by any financial crisis.

One glance of the article gave me a brief information on it - when I read articles before, I thought, ‘Hm, I get the idea’ and flicked through other websites but now I used my personal profile Facebook to save the web address forever so that I can take a look at it whenever I need or want.

Who said Facebook is only for social-networks?
Now it’s time to use it for yourself.