No doubt you all have heard of the tragedy that has happened/is happening in southeast Asia to east Africa: the earthquake (measuring 9.0) and the following tsunami. Currently, the death toll is past 22,000, which seems.. incomprehensible to me. 22,000 people.. gone. Granted, I never knew these people and chances are that I never would have even if this event had not cut short their lives. But something about this tragedy just grabbed my heart, so I went to donate at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies: I gave $10.
Ten dollars. "A 10-nation arc of destruction left by a monster earthquake and walls of water that killed more than 22,000 people. Thousands were missing and millions homeless."
Ten dollars. "Hundreds of thousands have lost everything, and millions face a hazardous future because of polluted drinking water, a lack of sanitation and no health services."
Ten dollars. "The disaster could be the costliest in history as well, with 'many billions of dollars' of damage."
I wonder what my $10 will go toward, though: maybe a meal for someone who is hungry; maybe clothing for someone who has lost everything in the disaster; maybe a pair of shoes for someone who has spent all day walking barefoot, trying to find the bodies of his or her deceased relatives. Whatever it is, I hope it helps.
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I know that I'm probably one of the last people you'd want to hear from, but let's just add a little bit more on top of the Bad-Feeling Cake.
In Sri Lanka alone, enough people died to inhabit 16 World Trade Center Towers A and B.
(Death count of Sri Lanka at time of publication: 24,743. Source: http://cockeyed.com/citizen/disaster/disaster.html)
Posted by Kelly's Brother | December 31, 2004 4:47 PM
Posted on December 31, 2004 16:47