Salon.com > poverty porn http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 00:22:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Africa: Help us send radiators to Norway! http://www.salon.com/2012/11/21/africa_help_us_send_radiators_to_norway/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/21/africa_help_us_send_radiators_to_norway/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:49:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13104839 Remember Band-Aid, the 1984 supergroup responsible for "Do They Know It's Christmas?," the song that taught the world Africa is a place "where nothing ever grows, no rain or rivers flow?" (Really, no rain? Toto would disagree.) Well, it's been 28 years and Africans are ready to repay the favor -- with another power ballad.

Enter: Radi-Aid, a campaign to send radiators to frostbitten Norwegians. Watch as a rapper called Breezy V explains the perils of sub-zero temperatures, and let's Africans know that they have the power to help:

In Norway kids are freezing / It's time for us to care / There's heat enough for Norway / If Africans would share

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