02-04-2010, 04:14 PM | #1 |
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Haiti relief work
A friend of mine who is connected to someone in this group posted a link to this blog on facebook: a day in the life of a relief worker in Haiti (this woman is part of a Utah group). A sad reminder that the suffering and death continues.
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02-04-2010, 06:43 PM | #2 |
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It sounds to me that suffering has been there for a long, long time, but we ignored it.
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02-04-2010, 07:31 PM | #4 |
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Sometimes I think I could write for The Onion.
I have noted that the LDS church issued a press release asking members to donate to relief efforts. |
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I live in a small town in South Carolina. My daughter attends a predominately African-American school. Her class has 14 students. My daughter and another girl are the only white students. The teacher is also white. Yesterday, I get this message from my wife while I'm at work:
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02-05-2010, 01:48 PM | #7 |
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I'll bet there is nothing to buy in Haiti.
When you poor free goods into a country, prices deflate. Nobody sells, because everything has no value. But if goods are generally not available, then prices are hyper-inflated. Look at micro-banking. And how they don't lend to men. Why? Are the folks in micro-banking sexist and racist? |
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02-06-2010, 04:52 PM | #9 |
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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.
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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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