Donate now at 1-877-99-Haiti or text Give to 50555 and donate $10 to help the people at Haiti get passed this wave of misery and torchure. Please help these people
im tired of this stuff already, i mean it sucks.... but im tired of it already. where I am from there are so many poor communities that were horribly affected by the closing of mines. They don't even have schools, you lived in a trailer with no power and you got one book donated a month to teach your kids how to read, and I prefer to keep my money in the US at least until it doesn't need it anymore. All this money could bring the world out of this recession, or help people here, it's just incredible.
I understand your sentiments, having come from the background that you did. I certainly don't mean to minimize your experiences. But I've done work in a lot of impoverished places, from Haiti, to inner cities in the US, to Brazilian slums, to the Pine Ridge Reservation - which at the time was in the poorest county in America. I've seen poverty in the US and overseas, and nothing came anything near what I saw in Haiti. Did you have clean water, or a toilet? Were you ever at risk of starvation? 68% of Haitians are malnourished. 42% have no clean water. 81% have no improved sanitation (most use the streets). 53.9% live on less than one dollar a day. But I should have put those numbers in the past tense. What infrastructure they had is gone now. And here's my point: This isn't about Haiti being poor. This is about an earthquake that leveled a major city. Death toll over 110,000 now. Port-au-Prince essentially collapsed. This city is very close in population to Indianapolis. Don't tell me that if Indy was destroyed, and well over 100,000 people were killed, that you would get tired of hearing about assistance efforts just because you were from a poorer, "needier" region. Those are PEOPLE down there. Kind, warm-hearted people; American or not.
