I’ve been watching...

At this moment in time, I feel like I’m quite a poor (money-wise) person. I haven’t got my address and there have been days when I had one sandwich and a coffee. Oh, yes... Coffee...
I have just watched “Black Gold”- a story about one man trying to change the world. How come when you are willing to fuck something up, you become a prime minister or a president? But when you are actually fighting for the world to become a better place – it’s next to impossible to find support!? Anyway, there is this “Man in charge” – Tadesse Meskela (General Manager of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Co-operative Union) [ for those who would like to read up: http://www.blackgoldmovie.com/tadesse.php ] and there are Ethiopian people. The wages of the seventy percent of the country depend on the coffee market.

Please read this: http://www.blackgoldmovie.com/story.php

If I think again, well, I’m not that poor. I am not allowed to complain. I’m not going to preach and say: “do this, don’t do that”. It’s completely up to you to make the decision. Next time, when you are going shopping, think twice before you pick the coffee up from the shelf. It is a luxury item. We can easily live without it. Of course, what would the life be without any luxuries? Yup. So let’s help the people of Ethiopia enjoy theirs, let’s make it possible for them to eat, to drink clean water, to be treated when they are ill; and the biggest luxury of them all – let’s send their children to school, let’s build the schools and let’s pay for their teachers. Do you think it is a fair exchange?...
Just because you have chosen to pay 20pence more for your coffee (much better quality, too!), somebody else can eat for a week. Makes you think, ey?...