Humans at the Mercy of Rogues

All the news I've consumed during the past week have got me musing:

That's how someone was reported as saying that this meningitis outbreak in Nigeria is God's punishment for fornication. I had to wonder: is the fornication in Zamfara state worse than the fornication in the United States of America? The one that is unashamedly publicized in the movies, music videos, and reality TV shows? If meningitis outbreak is punishment for rampant fornication, then renowned sin cities of the world should be getting set for the outbreak of another rare disease. But as you and I know, the majority of these headquarters of prostitution are in developed countries. They have functioning research institutes and will not rest until they find vaccinations, treatments and cures for any disease that plagues their people.
I've been thinking, and I agree that this current meningitis outbreak was caused by sin. Not the sin of the victims, because disease, like most misfortunes, does not discriminate. Diseases like meningitis often ignore the race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, educational background, social class, and even holiness-status of their victims. The sin that has caused this outbreak is the sin of breeding, incubating and empowering rogues as leaders. 

Meanwhile, I heard that the Nigerian factor caused a little lapse that caused great losses. What is the value of one Nigerian life? Now we know that the Nigerian factor (even though I have no idea what that means) is responsible for the illness and deaths of the Queens College students. But I have been thinking: who will answer for the contaminated water at the school? Who will answer for the illness of the students? Who will answer for the negligence in misdiagnosis that led to delayed treatment for some of the students? Who will answer for the decaying Federal Government Colleges all over Nigeria? Who will answer for the deaths of the three Queens College students? Will this great injustice and evil go unpunished? Who will answer, when humans are at the mercy of rogues?

And I have been thinking about Syria and all the news coming from that troubled state. When politics is using humans to play ping-pong. It seems as if the more I read the less I understand. But I've been thinking about the children of Syria: these children who have had their childhood stolen and have been exposed to horrors too gruesome for even adults. And I've been thinking, what can I do other than think and pray for these ones who are at the mercy of rogues?

I've been thinking about John Donne's Meditation XVII, with the popular lines "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent...: and "therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." In case you are thinking that the bad tidings are happening in some far away places to some random people, and that it doesn't concern you, please think again. There must be something we can do about the roguery. There must be something we can do, because every human life matters.

I've been thinking, what can I do? What can we do? I would love to read your ideas.