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Entertainment | 02/05/2009 12:10 pm

The Worst Place on Earth – Cynthia McFadden and Salma Hayek Visit Sierra Leone (Photos)

Photo Essay

I have been to a lot of troubled places, but none compares to Sierra Leone. I have told friends — and it is literally true — Rwanda seems like heaven compared to Sierra Leone. In the rural areas, there is one doctor for every 200,000 people. Only a third of those in rural areas has access to clean water. Malnutrition runs rampant. The grinding poverty is inescapable. Hope is hard to nourish.” —Cynthia McFadden

To read more about Cynthia McFadden and Salma Hayek’s trip, click here.

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Ms. Dee
I’d love to help? Where do I sign up?
By Ms. Dee on 02/05/2009 2:54 pm
Diana T
http://www.unicef.org/index.php Dee, I think we here in America need to find out as much as we can on the plight of the world’s children. Not enough water, no health care, no pre-natal care for the poor women who have become pregnant, either because they do not know nor have the right to prevent unwanted pregnancies. And, so many women are pregnant with HIV. And so very many children are dying of AIDs, cholera, dysentary and starvation. The figures of poverty among women and children are astounding. That is why you always see me preaching on womens’ rights and the right to choose whether or not to get pregnant. Also, many of the children you see in the pictures above, if they are female, will be subjected to the barbaric act of female mutililation.
By Diana T on 02/05/2009 5:43 pm
phyllis Doyle Pepe
I would like to know more about the trip, but the “click here” takes me nowhere.
By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 02/05/2009 5:09 pm
Jeannot Kensinger
PHyllis, I found this site , references to places which are supposed to give aid. http://www.cryfreetown.org/ I wish Cynthia would have given us more details.
By Jeannot Kensinger on 02/08/2009 2:07 pm
Dorothy Wilson
February 11, 2009 Nightline: During all of my 74 years, it has been common and natural for babies to drink breast milk that did not come from their own mother, including the Los Angeles octuplets of 2009. In the 1930s, when I was a child, it was common for a nursing mother to nurse the baby of a sick mother or a mother who wasn’t producing enough milk for her own baby. Wealthy mothers hired “wet mothers” to nurse their babies. Some mothers produce an over-abundance of milk, while others produce an insufficient amount. During my 30 years as a primary school teacher, my students’ mothers often donated or sold their breast milk. My daughter-in-law, in 2003 and 2007 donated her breast milk. There are pumping stations where mothers can stop-in and have their milk pumped. There is daily pick-up service for mothers who pump and refrigerate their breast milk at home. I think the startling astonishment of the breast-feeding on nightline was the act of “actually watching” the baby sucking from the breast. Nobody sees nursing anymore because mothers breast-feed privately today. It was amazing and beautiful. Nursing the baby away from home was good for Salma Hayek’s own baby because the more the mother nurses, the more milk she produces. It ensures a surplus of milk when she gets home to her own baby. If she doesn’t excrete the milk, her breasts will decrease production and dry up. Dorothy Wilson Altadena, California
By Dorothy Wilson on 02/12/2009 4:59 pm