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Old 02-08-2010, 06:50 PM   #10
Archaea
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If any of you actually looked at the blog what struck me most was the idea of going down there to help and not being to give something as simple as a drink of water because you are told it can't help everyone. Having to hide to drink your own water. I know the earthquake componded many pre-existing problems, but that doesn't make it any easier to watch the suffering now.
The way I handle this guilt is I look away after contributing a grossly inadequate amount to some fund.

What is even sadder is that Haiti, until it reconfigures itself in governance, socially and economically, will repeat these disasters. The infrastructure is disastrous, the building codes are non-existent and the poor have no hope there. People much smarter than anybody I know will have to figure a way out and they will most likely fail.
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