Room In This Heart

Room In This Heart
Band Aid 1984
World Hunger
comic relief
Poverty: Notes From Albion's Shores
Albion's Homeless
grief never grows old
grief never grows old: part 2
MAKE POVERTY HISTORY
One Way Out
Seizing The Day
Unlearning and Learning
ONE

"to make a better, safer world for all."

So Many Reach Out For The Hand
That Can Help...

Chris de Burgh

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

Won't You Reach Out A Hand?

the original
on our Chris de Burgh: 
Man On The Line Website

Albion the Cat askes you to give of yourself

UNICEF........ For every child there is a dream

 ACT

Action by Churches Together

a global alliance of churches

and relief agencies

assisting thousands

of people recovering

 from emergencies

in more than 50

countries worldwide. 

 

Action Against Hunger

Against Hunger directly delivers

emergency aid and longer-term

assistance to people

suffering from the

dire consequences of

natural disaster or

man-made crisis.

 Our mission is to save

 lives by combating

hunger, disease,

an the crises

threatening the lives

of helpless men,

women, and children

 

A Glimmer Of Hope

 

 

UNICEF in Iraq
 
 
 

 
 
the site is in French,
the message is universal
 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
World Health Organisation
 
 
World Hunger Year

 

Chris de Burgh

OXFAM Canada.

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