Everyone seems to be going nuts over this Japan incident. Unfortunately, I can probabably count on one hand how many weeks this buzz will last before everyone forgets...with 2 fingers cut off...
Remember that Hatian earthquake last year? 100-200 thousand people died, if not more (I couldn't find a proper amount). They still need aid!
Maybe you do. You should.
How about the Indonesian tsunami a couple years back? 220,000 people died, according to the official count. I googled their current situation, and found nothing. Newsstories from 2004, when it happened, 2005, as a reminder... 2010, when that smaller tsunami happened... Can that whole area be rebuilt, recovered, in 7 years, even after a smaller tsunami hit it?
Smaller in size, but in no way smaller in effect, there have been many other happenings in past years as well. And we forget.
Japan, at most, has 15 thousand people dead, (I've hear 10,000)(feel free to update me). If we forgot Haiti in 2 months, Indonesia (I can't remember, I was too young...) in probably a couple months too...
Please. Help out Japan now, but don't brush it aside after a week or so. Don't depend on the media to remind you about those suffering.
Don't forget about the other victims as well, of other disasters!
So...If you're an awesome artist with time and money, commission for other causes too! Every penny (or whatever currency you run in) counts!
25 cents can feed a child!
On the topic of feeding children, 28,000 people die daily from hunger. On going disaster, yet a lot of people don't think about it...
So...remember victims of disasters...AND victims of poverty and the results of it.
Also, visit FreeRice.com Even if you don't have time to do the vocab thing, you can download their toolbar. Every 5 searches, 2500 grains of rice is donated, but the daily max is 5000. Use it through you day. Unfortunately, the thing that measures if the search is fake or not is kinda screwy (yesterday, i put in 10 searches of random object on my desk, and they all counted... today, i searched for indonesia death toll, and then for a map of indonesia, and the latter one was counted as fake)...Ah well.
Oh.
HAPPY PI DAY!!!
(smile for pie!)
You're right about everyone forgetting about these dreadful incidents a short while after they happen. This is a really inpsiring post!
ReplyDeleteI will download the Free Rice toolbar! Thanks for posting this! :)
Oh, and Happy [belated] Pi Day! :D
yeah! haha u go girl lol.... btw do you need ur yarn back now?
ReplyDeleteQuite frankly profound thoughts I must say, although I must also say the media has played a large role in your mindset. Although publication and exposure of Haiti seised within a short period of time countless supply and medical aid are still being given to Haiti this day. Japan is economically powerful country and is indeed a world power therefore there tragedy is far more important and beneficial then the impoverished countries of Indonesia and Haiti.
ReplyDeleteI think the number of children dying each day from hunger was 40,000 in 1990 or so. It's still way too high, but at least it's going down.
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