LETS HELP HAITI

It’s rather early in the year to start talking about disaster of any kind, natural or otherwise, but that does not stop it from happening. Whenever we hear of disaster that means it happens to people who least expect it or are in the worst possible position to do anything about it on their own, both in prevention and in the relief afterwards. The people of Haiti have touched the world and indeed called us to pay more attention to the 3rd world countries, to Africa, to the women and children who have been neglected for a very long time. The new decade indeed starts with a wakeup call to all those in positions of authority; it’s time to face issues that affect human life directly. Mother Nature is calling us all to arise and take up the challenge and be ‘our brother’s keepers’. Is this a decade of more charity? I don’t know yet, and only time will tell. Looking back at the decade just ended a lot of financial crisis but no one person died as a direct effect of this crisis, yet little Haiti in a twinkle of an eye suffered a disaster that has claimed so many lives. This shows that the world and its leaders should channel their efforts into more humanitarian gestures, especially to the 3rd world and its population. The world would indeed become a better place if as much care being shown to Haiti now would be sustained and extended to other countries of similar plight even without a natural disaster. Let us join hands in prayer for the victims and our hearts in solidarity to a nation in distress and hope that this is the worst that can happen. Let us help Haiti, let us help the world