Issues like over-breeding are a very definite hindrance to the cure, and do need to be addressed – but that’s easier said than done. Educating a fixed and unreceptive mind is not a simple task. Teaching farming techniques and setting up irrigation systems, as some charities are doing, help (although quite how that is done in areas of permanent drought I really don’t know) but as others have said corrupt governments are often a stumbling block, pocketing the money with no intention of using it for the purpose it is given. In the meantime, we must remember that people are people. We can’t just ignore them, or write them off as a lost cause. Until such time as a real solution is found, we can only do what we can to help alleviate what is a terrible, and seemingly enduring, human tragedy.