DER SPIEGEL, German public broadcaster ZDF and Deutsche Well teamed up over the course of several months to follow the organ trail. From Germany and Poland via Israel to the clinic in Eldoret, Kenya, that is currently in the center of an international and seemingly criminal kidney trade. The transactions and transplants link patients in Germany with donors in Caucasus nations like Azerbaijan. And it links prosperous Somalians with young Kenyans who are talked into earning a quick 2,000 to 5,000 euros for one of their kidneys, while patients in the West pay up to 200,000 euros to the organ traders – preferably in cash.
To let people be put in a position where this is the only seemingly solution to be able to live on, is where we failed as humans.
This is avoidable. Most suffering worldwide would be avoidable or at least seen to be taken care of, if our mighty billionaires would cut off a little piece of their wealth, for humankind. Theoretically at least.
All humans would have to stop being greedy little shits, so that money can reach the people it’s intended to reach.