Since the 1980s, the African continent has been hit by drought for several consecutive years, and agricultural production has been greatly affected. The Sahel region on the edge of the sub-Saharan desert has been barren and has no grain harvests; in the past, the agricultural harvest has dropped sharply; in sub-Saharan African countries, there are severe food shortages, and thousands of residents are threatened with hunger. By early 1984, there were 25 countries with severe food shortages, which has been a disaster for the African people in the past two years.

Although Zhao Chen has already established a foundation and has invested a lot, it can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket for the African people with too many people, the amount is about 30 million US dollars.

According to newspaper reports, Africa is experiencing the largest drought and famine this century. From northern to southern Africa, 34 countries suffered severe droughts, 24 countries suffered famines, and hundreds of millions of people were threatened by hunger. In areas with severe disasters, rivers were dried up, fields were cracked, yellow sand was spreading, livestock were dead, and at least 10 million people left their hometowns and ran around to find food. The Geneva Red Cross Society said that in 1983, 16 million people died of hunger or malnutrition-related diseases in Africa, the death figure in 1984 was definitely higher. The United Nations called this drought "the biggest human disaster in modern African history", far exceeding the Sahel drought that caused 300,000 deaths from 1973 to 1974.

In the past three years, the rainfall in West Africa has been the least in three to four decades. The former turbulent Gambia River has been cut off from flowing in the upper reaches; Mauritania has only one-quarter of the rainfall that has been around for many years. The pastures are barren; northern Ethiopia has not rained for many years; southern Africa has also experienced severe droughts that have never happened in 50 years.

The worst-hit country is Ethiopia. About 9 million of the 42 million people nationwide are threatened by hunger. It is reported that more than 300,000 people have been starved to death. Witnesses said that there has been no rain in the northern region for many years. Thousands of trees have withered and all the food has been eaten up. At a relief station in Volo Province, there is only enough food to be distributed to 3,000 people, and 100,000 people are waiting for relief. The death toll is 100 people per day. Along the way to the relief station, people patiently wait for passing cars to distribute food. In the Bati refugee camp, in December 1983, 120 people died every day. Most of them were children.

The lives of African refugees are miserable. They flock to some government-set relief stations, but there is not enough food or medicine. They sit on the dirty ground all day long, waiting to get some food. During the day, the sun shines, the temperature is 38 degrees Celsius, and the refugees have no things to hide the sun; at night, the temperature drops sharply, and they do not have enough blankets to keep the cold. The drought has rapidly expanded the original 5 million refugees in Africa, and an average of 3,000 refugees from neighboring countries join the refugee team every day.

Zhao Chen's memory is only half aware of the drought in Africa this year. After all, he was born in his previous life later than this era and lacked the necessary understanding of this era. Therefore, he did not realize the severity of the drought until now.

Looking at the dense reports and miserable pictures in major newspapers, Zhao Chen said in his heart that it was fake. He was so rich that he could only count as a number. You should know that his assets are billions of dollars. He is growing at an extremely fast rate, and it may reach 10 billion dollars in the past one or two years. So much money, no matter how extravagant he is, he can't spend it at all, especially he is a relatively self-disciplined person, and his daily time is more spent on work.

In addition, Zhao Chen knew very well that his girlfriend Zhou Huimin was full of love. Later generations once went to Africa to help poverty. He even taught in Congo, Africa. Zhao Chen was still quite happy to see such a situation. After all, no one wants his girlfriend to be a gentle and kind person, and Zhao Chen himself is an exception.

It is precisely because of these reasons that Zhao Chen is very willing to help these African people affected by famine, not to mention that there are more or less loyal comic fans in it. Although African countries are relatively poor, Zhao Chen's comics are still selling well in Africa, even if piracy in Africa is rampant!

After making a decision, Zhao Chen immediately implemented the corresponding plan. Although his personal strength is limited, it depends on his personal ability. Zhao Chen lacks nothing, and the most important thing is money. According to later generations, he is an invincible rich man, standing at the top of the pyramid and looking down at the people below. If Forbes rearranged it, Zhao Chen's current assets alone can enter the top ten Forbes' rich list.

What is implemented is undoubtedly disaster relief. The biggest problem in Africa this time is famine. It can be said that Africa currently lacks a massive amount of food, so Zhao Chen can only take the lead in purchasing food through personal donations and then air transport it to Africa.

This time, he directly donated a full 100 million US dollars to buy a large amount of food from some major grain-producing countries. In this process, Zhao Chen's deep connections gave great help. In addition, since Zhao Chen was on the moral side, the merchants who sold food not only did not take advantage of the opportunity to increase the price of food, but instead took the initiative to lower it and helped transport it.

It is precisely under such circumstances that a large amount of food was transported by air to several countries with the worst famine and distributed to the people who were trapped in famine. This situation greatly alleviated people's deaths and caused the death toll in these countries to rapidly decrease.

Although Zhao Chen made a lot of contributions to this righteous act, he also received a lot of support from celebrities. Some celebrities supported Zhao Chen through newspapers, while more celebrities donated generously, as if responding to this "call".

Similarly, donating a total of 100 million US dollars to buy food, the value of this news can be imagined. Most newspapers in each country have listed it as the front page headlines for reporting. In addition to praising Zhao Chen's righteous deeds, they also hope that the people can donate actively to help African people get out of the predicament faster.

What made Zhao Chen speechless was that perhaps because of Zhao Chen's righteous act, not only did the donations from various places increase significantly, but the sales volume of various publications of the World Club increased to varying degrees. Among them, "Young Sora" increased sales by hundreds of thousands in the latest issue, reaching a terrifying level of 6 million for the first time. Most of these increased sales were purchased by young and middle-aged people, not the main group of comics. This may be the case of losing and regaining. People are supporting themselves with practical actions to do their best.

Although Zhao Chen's donations have a lot, it has alleviated the current trend. However, his main thing is to take the lead and drive the attention of the people of the world to this drought in Africa, thus beginning to ease the trend of this disaster.

Just as the storm of Zhao Chen's donation gradually subsided, on October 30, 1984, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, headquartered in Rome, announced that the World Food Programme would provide emergency food aid equivalent to US$15.8 million to more than 1.1 million victims and refugees in six African and Latin American countries.

Although the UN's disaster relief plan is good, it is far less than Zhao Chen's donation alone. This makes people who see this report complain about who is the United Nations? Currently, nearly 200 million people are famine in Africa. US$15.8 million is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket compared to nearly 200 million people. I'm afraid that it will disappear as soon as it is invested. Each person is less than a dollar, and it is still calculated according to the later RMB algorithm.

The United Nations Council is actually very embarrassed. It’s not that they don’t want to invest more, but they are really helpless. You must know that the United Nations Council is composed of members of various countries, and more or less requires ensuring their own national interests so that they will not care whether it is Africa or the Americas. Anyway, it’s not their own country or allies. With the degree of poverty in Africa, the number of allies can be imagined. It’s great to be able to invest in these.
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