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December 30, 2004
How to help the tsunami victims
What can you do? Read below, from NY1:
""Search and rescue teams have left from Los Angeles and from Fairfax County, Virginia, to assist in rescue efforts," said [Secretary of State] Powell. "We're beefing up our disaster relief teams in the region, making assessment. We're also reaching out to fellow Americans to make a contribution. Americans are a very generous people and we hope they will go to our website, www.state.gov or www.usaid.gov and from there they can learn about agencies that are collecting money that will be used for the relief effort."
We quibble, and bicker and complain. We're allowed to quibble, bicker and complain and so we shouldn't feel guilty about doing so. We should, however, try to pay just a little bit of attention to what's going on outside our private little worlds. If we do we'll be better for it, and better able to help others when the time comes.
[Follow up: I can tell you from having just checked out the two sites referred to above that the USAID site is more helpful and provides information on making donations. The other site primarily provides information about the US response to the crisis.]
Posted by sferrell at December 30, 2004 5:12 PM
