Letter to Ethiopians Concerning Starvation

By Obang Metho

September 29th, 2008

Are we so absorbed in our own lives or groups or in competition with others that pity for the less fortunate has disappeared from our souls?

Dear Ethiopian:

I am addressing this letter to every Ethiopian, especially those in the Diaspora. A huge and urgent food crisis is endangering the lives of countless Ethiopians back home and we must wake up to the reality of it or millions of lives will be lost!

We all know about it! The tragic images are everywhere. Those traveling back home bring back horrible accounts of the hardship and hunger of our people. We can read the reports from NGO’s and western reporters in the news and on websites. We have no excuse for not knowing!

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What more do we need to unify us than our dying people? Starvation does not have a tribe or a language. It is targeting all of us. Let the dying of our people unify us not by words, but by actions until we become the hands and feet of God to the suffering, until we become a blessing to our people.

May God help us to be people of virtue, integrity, compassion and justice.

Respectfully yours,

Obang Metho