HELLO, I was referred here from Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society. Columbia’s EARTH INSTITUTE reported during the years 2014/2015 that an El Nino event would impact Western and Central Africa causing much human distress, disease, and fatality in the near future. Last summer(2017) droughts and famines began devastating Western and Central Africa causing crop failures, water well dryouts, sewage disasters, and widespread disease like increases in malaria, cholera, typhus and typhoid, Dengue Fever, dysentery, malaise and fatigue, and others. This all really happened. Later in 2017, I began to receive requests via MESSENGER for food and supplies to help support individuals, women, men, and children, that is, families, as well as their communities and neighborhoods. I am the Founder and President of a small Manhattan based unfunded humanitarian foundation that has worked with the World Health Organization and UNICEF and other UN agencies like the CSD for about 25 years. We usually prepare in advance with foreknowledge of disasters like the announced El Niño of 2014/2015. Why was nothing done in advance for this horrible disaster? I’ve attended many meetings and events over the years at Columbia University’s EARTH INSTITUTE and know its good reputation. But to date I’ve seen nothing from the EARTH INSTITUTE on advance preparations for the human people faced to live with and try to survive the droughts and famines in Western and Central Africa following the predicted El Niño of 2014/2015. I pray in the future when faced with predicted and so expected El Niño phenomenon causing droughts and famines wherever they occur worldwide, that responsible and reliable bodies like Columbia University’s EARTH INSTITUTE will respond fully and to the best of their abilities to respond to and answer the many needs for supporting resources and services incurred after such El Niño disaster events. Thank you for helping us all. SHALOM, SHALEIM, PEACE, LOVE. Yours, Maharat, Nazireh, Professor, and Doctor ELYAS FRAENKEL ISAACS