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I am sending you back in time. Back to 1985 before the Dot Com generation reported to Kindergarten and majority were not born yet. During that year and the year prior, there was a devastating famine in our neighboring Ethiopia, a famine that killed hundreds of thousands of people and threatened the lives of millions more. They were in dire need. The humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia made headlines around the globe with images of skeletal looking adults cradling dying children on their laps, with the dead scattered everywhere you looked. The world was shocked to see those images. Some people were shaken to their core and appalled for a moment but soon continued with their lives disregarding what they just saw. Others got down on their knees and prayed while others let it pass as a news item from a distant land that had no bearing to their lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However in the U.S.A, some two African American men, one a famous music producer named Quincy Jones and the other a famous musician named Lionel Richie decided to do something about the situation in Ethiopia. They used their fame and star power to recruit other famous musicians to add their star power to a music composition they had written and produced for a charity event. The song \u201cWe are the World\u201d was born. On Good Friday of April 5, 1985, some 8,000 radio stations around the globe agreed to play the \u201cWe Are The World\u201d song at a certain hour to reach every corner and every citizen of the world. The project was a staggering success, pushing the global sales of that single album to astronomical heights, raising tonnes of money for sending food to the starving population of Ethiopia. Quincy and Lionel\u2019s initiative and juggernaut success inspired other famous artists all over the world to use their star power to organize similar projects to raise money for Ethiopia. The situation in Ethiopia could no longer be ignored. These two men had awakened the consciousness of the entire world to the unimaginable suffering of the Ethiopian people and they had strongly demonstrated how the world could reach out and make a difference. Churches and NGO\u2019s followed suit, and before the close of 1985, the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia was averted. What did that take? It took the actions of two black men from the U.S.A, choosing to take the lead, forever changing the way the Western world responded to human disasters around the world. With the lyrics Quincy and Lionel wrote, they called the world to action with powerful words that touched the consciousness of every human being, it was impossible to ignore humanitarian crisis anymore, no matter which corner of our globe they were affecting. \u201cTHERE IS A CHOICE WE ARE MAKING, WE ARE SAVING OUR OWN LIVES\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For our world today, when you reach out to another human being who is in dire need, you are choosing to heal your own conscience, while failure to act in similar circumstances kills your own conscience, which is the worst death of all. That is what that pivotal line in the song reminds us all, then, now and always. We have a choice to make every day, and that choice saves our own life as it lends a helping hand to another human being whose dire circumstances intersects with our lives. Quincy and Lionel did not wait for their powerful U.S.A. government to act. They did not wait for big organizations to act, or sat back hoping somebody else will do something about the human toll they were witnessing. They decided to offer what they had, what they knew best. Music. They had produced plenty of other music before in their careers but \u201cWe are the World\u201d became their greatest production yet, and that one song mobilized an entire world to action. What can we learn from that? To never wait. Instead, to act now. Act with what you have already. It may not seem like much at this moment, but done with the right intentions, your one act that seems small to begin with can inspire a movement that creates ripple effects around your family, community, nation even the entire world. Act now. Someone\u2019s life could be saved or changed forever by something you already have RIGHT NOW as you are reading this. Save your own life as you heed a certain call.\u00a0 Here is the inspirational video and lyrics there below:<\/strong><\/p>\n

WE ARE THE WORLD – USA FOR AFRICA 1985<\/strong><\/h4>\n