![]() Valve's president, Gabe Newell, set his team the goal of redefining the first-person shooter genre. Development lasted five years and cost US$40 million. Half-Life 2 was created using Valve's Source engine, which was developed at the same time. ![]() Players control Gordon Freeman as he joins a resistance movement to liberate the Earth from the control of an alien empire, the Combine. Like the original Half-Life (1998), Half-Life 2 combines shooting, puzzles, and storytelling, and adds features such as vehicles and physics-based gameplay. It was published by Valve through its distribution service Steam. Consider making an online donation today.Half-Life 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter game developed by Valve. With your help, we can continue to impact lives and give hope to those who need it most. Operation Blessing has increased the capacity of the current seed banks by 25 percent by purchasing and storing more millet and hopes to construct more seed banks for villages in Diagourou.Įvery day, Operation Blessing International is delivering nutritious food and essential supplies to thousands facing hunger and poverty. ![]() “They have been very successful and now more families are moving and settling around the banks to get access to food.”Įach bank holds 100 bags of millet, with the capacity to feed 600 families, however as the population around the banks increases, so does the need. “These banks are like an oasis in the desert,” Yacouba said. The benefit is two-fold: the seed banks make food available locally so farmers do not have to leave their fields in search of food, and by purchasing directly from the region, it helps to reinforce the local economy and makes a variety of local seeds available for the next rainy season.Īnd most importantly, lives are being saved. The seed banks purchase grain from the villagers during the harvest season, and then during the dry season or times of famine, the banks sell grain back to the villagers at an affordable price. Seed banks have been started in 17 villages-covering about half the population of the Diagourou region in Niger or approximately 22,000 people. Since 2006, Operation Blessing has been working in partnership with local ministry Hosannah Institute of Sahel, to create a sustainable food program to help thousands of families. “They don’t know the meaning of famine-they only know hunger.” “Children do not understand when you tell them there is no food and they must wait,” said Yacouba, OBI’s national director for Niger. And when they do find it, many cannot afford it because the cost of millet has nearly doubled. So often families are forced to leave their fields and walk long distances in search of food. ![]() When the farmers harvest their millet crops at the end of the rainy season, they keep some of the grain for their families, while most of it is sold for income.īut the portion kept is hardly enough to feed a family for 5 or 6 months, much less 12 months. ![]() Niger has only a 3-month rainy season, followed by 9 months of hot, dry sun. Farmers can only hope for the rain that will help their millet crops grow-a simple seed that is the main crop and food source for Niger-but more often than not, the rain does not come. HUNGER RELIEF They Only Know Hunger By Holly DrakeĭIAGOUROU, Niger – A simple seed may mean the difference between life and death for thousands of families in Niger.Ī severe food crisis is verging on widespread famine, putting half the nation’s population of 8 million at risk of going hungry. ![]()
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