In the inhospitable desert and Gobi desert of northwestern Kenya lies a long and narrow lake, Lake Turkana.

Alone as a crescent crescent in Kenya's sparsely populated north, the lake has brought water to the hot, arid semi-desert region of life and nurtured the tribes that have lived around its shores for thousands of years.

From the rest stop, there is no road to Lake Turkana, but a dirt road that bursts with coyote smoke.

After about half an hour's drive, you can see the village.

On the way here, Cao Wu and the others also saw the local buildings and people, and after leaving Nairobi, the local buildings could no longer be described as dilapidated.

In fact, although Nairobi is a capital city, it is basically the same size as the larger towns in the country.

After leaving Nairobi, the buildings they encountered along the way were basically similar to those in the countryside of the sixties and seventies in China.

With these psychological preparations, the village that can be seen still has a great impact on Cao Wu and others.

Cao Wu had the impression that the houses should at least have walls, but most of the houses in this village were just sheds made of tin sheets and hay.

As soon as the convoy entered the village, many children, large and small, ran over. They happily ran with the car, curiously looking into the car.

The black skin is covered with a layer of gray soil, which highlights the teeth and the whites of the eyes.

The convoy drove all the way to the doors of two dilapidated brick houses with exposed brick floors, two of the best buildings in the village, a hospital and a school.

After getting out of the car, the children who were running with the car swarmed around and looked at them curiously.

Cao Wu got out of the car, looked at the children in front of him in dirty and shabby clothes, and the surrounding buildings, and said nothing.

Lele took out the candy that had been prepared from the car and gave it to the children, but there was no smile on her face.

Books, cold data and words on the Internet are never as shocking as what you see with your own eyes.

"Let's go, let's go!" Latum patted the back of the head of the child who didn't get the candy, dispersed them, and took Cao Wu and them into the hospital.

The corridor and the floor were full of people, and many of the people who were doing the hanging needles could only hold the hanging bottle in one hand and stand against the wall.

Several men in white coats were busy in and out of it, including an Asian boy.

"His name is Yang, and he is from your Chinese country. "People here respect him. ”

The entry of their group made the already crowded hospital even more crowded, Cao Wu and the others discussed, and only he and Jiaju were left, and the others went outside for the time being.

Everyone noticed them, the doctors and nurses were busy, and there was no one to receive them.

Cao Wu looked at the environment, unlike the people outside, most of the people here were expressionless or sad, not many people spoke, and even the flies flying and circling overhead were too lazy to drive them away.

The door at the end of the corridor leads directly to the ward, which is said to be a ward, but in fact it is an empty room, with only two beds, and more wooden shelves.

There is no equipment, and the only electricity in the ward is the overhead light.

"You're Cao Wu. ”

Cao Wu turned around, and behind him was that Yang, who was looking at Cao Wu with a smile.

"Hello. Cao Wu wanted to shake hands, but when he saw the thermometer in Yang's hand, he didn't stretch out his hand.

Yang nodded and said with a smile: "My name is Yang Xiao, and I like to listen to your songs very much." ”

"Thank you. Cao Wu was a little flattered: "When did you come here?"

"Three years ago!" Yang Xiao stepped forward to invite: "Let's go outside and talk!"

Coming outside, Yang Xiao greeted the villagers while walking.

"I've heard about the concert, and you're really good. He sighed, "I hope I can raise more money this time." ”

Cao Wu asked: "Before I came, I only learned about the news here from the news, but when I came over, the situation didn't seem to be optimistic?"

"Yes!" Yang Xiao said as he walked: "The drought here in East Africa is basically the norm, and there have been particularly serious droughts in 91, 00, and 11 years, and this time is the same. ”

"The main crop here in Kenya is maize, which has been reduced by a quarter this year because of the drought. ”

Yang Xiao patted the back of the child's head and sighed: "The problem here is actually very simple, it is a matter of survival, lack of food, lack of water, just these two things. ”

"But isn't that the lake?" Cao Wu asked, puzzled, pointing to Lake Turkana in the distance.

"It's a saltwater lake. Yang Xiao explained: "The main ingredient in the water of this lake is soda ash, which is very alkaline, and it will feel slippery when touched by hand, and you can't drink it directly." ”

He pointed to the fishing boats that were fishing on the lake: "Ninety years ago, people here didn't eat fish, but because of culture, they started to eat fish slowly over the years. ”

"The damage in Turkana County is not severe, but the Kamba region is the worst, where crops have been completely destroyed and they have to live on the monthly distribution of maize, rice and a little cooking oil from the government. And there is a huge shortage of water over there, and if you dig more than a meter down, you will encounter rock formations, but the people there can't afford to buy explosives and tools......"

Cao Wu listened silently, his mind sketching the scene described by Yang Xiao, but he couldn't help but think of hell.

Under natural disasters, there is purgatory on earth!

Yang Xiao stopped in front of the tin shed next to the school and said: "The school has been suspended for three months, and when we run the school, we will give the children a meal, but this year there is really a shortage of food, we can't manage it, and we don't have time to take care of it, so we can only stop." ”

Cao Wu saw that although school had been suspended, there were still many children playing under this shed, with crooked English, Chinese and French on the blackboard, as well as a few simple but childlike drawings.

"Yang!"

"Yang!"

When the children saw Yang Xiao, they ran over with cheers and surrounded him in the middle.

patted their heads, Yang Xiao scolded them with a smile, and then they ran away with a smile.

"Many international charities are donating money and food here, but the amount is limited, and we can only give priority to children and people who work, after all, there are many places where it is more difficult than ours. ”

Yang Xiao took another step, and the two of them came all the way to the lake, stepping on the cracked ground, he said: "This was originally the lake, but this year, the area of Lake Turkana has shrunk by more than 10 percent, and the bottom of the lake has been exposed. ”

On the surface of the lake, fishermen are casting nets to catch fish on mottled wooden boats, and the scorching sun is scorching, and the steaming water vapor makes the fishing boats in the middle of the lake shake endlessly, which makes people worry.