The worldwide ignorance of the crises motivated Ian Anderson, editor of the Folk Roots Magazine to write a strong appeal, which is published in the latest edition of AfroPop .
Read it and you can understand the injustice.
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"Only after the current political crisis is resolved and Ratsiraka is removed, as removed he must inevitably be, we can maybe turn our minds to more direct help like major benefit events for fund and consciousness raising. In the meantime please pass this on and help the world wake up. These may be small terrorists doing their awful things locally while the big ones play their international games across the oceans, but they hurt millions of ordinary people just the same, people who have no voice outside." (Ian Anderson)

Political crisis will always happen and we cannot prevent it by planting trees - BUT nevertheless it is important to support local projects, which try to make a difference. Only on the smallest level, people are directly effected. To help building a school can do more good, than many discussions of politicians. WebdaK supports projects, which are dedicated to sustainable development. Using the old proverb, we can explain it like this: "It is better to provide the tools to the fishermen, so he can fish. We don't need to teach them how to fish, when they know it already and just giving them fish is the kind of charity, which makes people dependents of foreign aid."