Wednesday, January 13, 2010

don't think, just help

cannot think of a better time to step outside your day-to-day and think about someone in addition to yourself and your family and possibly work. if a natural disaster is the motivator, haiti is in need. i woke up this morning, began watching the today show and became increasingly uncomfortable for being able to sleep in my bed last night when so many, oh so many, are homeless or dead in this country.

haiti has brought me back to the way i felt during the tsunami in 2004. the news reports began their reporting with a few casualties and in a fairly short period of time the number of people who died was in the hundreds of thousands. the reporting on haiti seems to be following suit. to give this some perspective: haiti's population is 9 million, manhattan's is 1.5 million. hundreds of thousands of people dead is many moms, dads, sons, daughters, granparents, aunts and uncles....

wwcd: if you would like to help, cnn lists many of the organizations giving aid: www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/impact/

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