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October 09, 2005
Things that are disappointing:
It's really sort of striking, to me, the lack of any mention of a relief effort for the victims of the earthquake in Pakistan. I guess that we can't follow every disaster with a fundraiser of some sort; maybe that would just be too much for the world to handle, or something. But in contrast to the efforts following Hurricane Katrina and the Asian tsunami, it just really stands out to me that none of the usual suspects (for me, Amazon and Apple) have a link where you can donate your $10 to help out the people in Islamabad. I mean, isn't it kind of weird? Maybe we just don't care about earthquakes because they are always this destructive and we need to be really surprised in order to want to help. Or maybe we (Americans) just don't care about Pakistan because it's a Muslim country. Although, I'm pretty sure (without really feeling like checking) that Muslim countries in Asia were affected by the tsunami as well. Maybe we (Americans) just don't care about Pakistan because it's Pakistan. In any case, it seems quite sad to me and it must be really sad to the Pakistanis, if they've seen any news of the relief efforts in other disasters.
Update: I did a little more research, and you can always donate to someplace like UNICEF or International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (although the latter is a little complicated seeming, since it takes three weeks to charge your credit card and convert your money to Swiss francs...).
Posted by kelseyfrost at October 9, 2005 08:32 AM
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