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So Many Reach Out For The Hand
That Can Help...
This small website grew out of a webpage on our Man On The Line, Chris
de Burgh Website and was inspired by Chris's song that is the title at the top of this page. The song can mean many
things to many people, and this is what it means to us here, at the Room In This Heart website. For us it means we can use
the medium of the internet to reach out to people and ask for their help in trying to alleiviate some of the suffering brought
on by poverty, hunger, natural disasters, war and disease.
What Can I Do To Help?
Hunger is everywhere, from here to there, and all over the world
Please take the time to read, and visit all the links, and then think
about what part you can play in helping to alleviate and in the end eradicate local and world hunger.
Food is one of the most basic necessities of life. Yet more than 1.8 billion
people are undernourished, 400 million of which are on the verge of starvation. Poor agricultural techniques such as slash-and-burn
hurt production yields as well as the environment. Natural disasters such as floods and drought can destroy crops, leaving
families virtually without food. War and conflict has the same effect, devastating countries, tearing families apart, destroying
crops and bringing the food chain to a halt, and yet the silence, from many people in this world, is deafening. They find
it uncomfortable to look at images of the starving and generally avert their eyes. It's time to stare this issue right in
the face and say no, no to allowing hundreds of millions to starve. It's not just in places like Africa, India, Bangladesh,
and now Iraq, there is hunger right on your own door step, if you have eyes and the senses to see. Many children in so-called
civilised countries go to school hungry, and this is not the ideal environment for concentrating on learning. Get in touch
with your local church or other organisations and see what you can do to help. , and use the provided links here to further
educate yourself, you might be surprised what you can do to help. Answer the call from those voices out there and reach out
a hand.
There's Room In This Heart Tonight
How many times can I look in your eyes,
And say
I have nothing to give?
And how many more times must I wake in the night
With dreams of the way that you live?
Well
I can hear you crying in silence,
I can see you, lost in the dark,
And I am near you, turn to me now,
There's room
in this heart tonight;
So many people all over the world
Are living in pain and despair,
And so many reach out
for the hand that can help,
Still calling to nobody there;
Well I can hear you, crying in silence,
I can see
you lost in the dark,
And I am near you, turn to me now,
There's room in this heart tonight;
There is a part
of everyone
That cannot see and cannot hear, because we don't want to know,
But somewhere there's a bigger heart
that's
reaching out for all of us, a place to go;
There are so many in life who need a helping hand,
Somebody who can heal
the pain;
Yes I can hear you, crying in silence,
I can see you, you're lost in the dark,
And I am near you,
turn to me now,
There's room in this heart tonight,
There's room in this heart tonight,
There's room in this heart
tonight.
©Chris de Burgh. 2002
the original
on our Chris de Burgh:
Man On The Line Website
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