ABC’s Coverage Of Famine In Africa Leads Viewers To Donate $100,000 In One Night

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by Mark Joyella | 3:28 pm, August 5th, 2011

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The group Doctors Without Borders says it received more than $100,000 in donations in a matter of hours after ABC News aired a report on the unfolding famine in Africa–considered the worst humanitarian disaster in the world. ABC’s David Muir, who reported from the region for a week and a half, says an estimated 29,000 Somali children aged 5 and under have died in just the last three months.

Muir–the first American anchor to report from Somalia and Kenya during the crisis–returned home Wednesday night to learn his reporting had touched ABC News viewers, who made more than $100,000 dollars in donations to Doctors Without Borders between 6:30 p.m. (when ABC World News airs) and midnight. (You can make a donation by visiting ABCNews.com/help)

Muir reported on the overwhelming response to the famine Thursday. Watch it here, from ABC News:

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Librablue

David Muir has been doing a great job covering this story. Where the hell are all the high paid anchors?
The Real Royal Emperor

Indeed he has. I have tremendous respect for him.
Anonymous

So the peaceful Muslim terrorists are preventing the aid from getting in.

Not a surprise.
Bcarlton

Donate to whom? …by now every man, woman and child must have received over $400,000 over the years by now… NO???… so where does this money go?
Anonymous

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My time with you is at an end, Ebenezer Scrooge. Will you profit from what I’ve shown you of the good in most men’s hearts?

Ebenezer:
I don’t know, how can I promise!

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If it’s too hard a lesson for you to learn, then learn this lesson!

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[shocked] Spirit, are these yours?

Spirit of Christmas Present:
They are Man’s. This boy is Ignorance, this girl is Want. Beware them both, but most of all, beware this boy!

Ebenezer:
But have they no refuge, no resource?

Spirit of Christmas Present:
[quoting Scrooge] Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?