If only the Serbs and the Croats had a guy like you around to help them out. I'm kicking myself for not suggesting this solution to them at the time. Imagine if you'd only been around for the Irish after the Potato Famine. Or for the Ukrainians after the Holodomor.
It wasn't just the Irish who had to deal with the Patato Famine. Same time as the Irish had the problem it also occurred in the Highlands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Potato_Famine
Which caused 1.7 million Scots to leave.
Now while we are talking about moving on and moving forward. Found this tidbit,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)
In 1847, midway through the Great Irish Famine (18451849), a group of Native American Choctaws collected $710 (although many articles say the original amount was $170 after a misprint in Angie Debo's The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic) and sent it to help starving Irish men, women and children. "It had been just 16 years since the Choctaw people had experienced the Trail of Tears, and they had faced starvation… It was an amazing gesture." according to Judy Allen, editor of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma's newspaper, Bishinik, based at the Oklahoma Choctaw tribal headquarters in Durant, Oklahoma. To mark the 150th anniversary, eight Irish people retraced the Trail of Tears,[76] and the donation was publicly commemorated by President Mary Robinson.
if you think about it, you get kicked off your land, lost the world you know, forced to move, many of your people do not survive. Every reason to not want to help yet some Choctaw still wanted to help.