Please go to this link and see the truth of what this blogger and his wife are dealing with. Go back day by day. When you reach January 11, 2010, see their life before the earthquake.
Please spend some time with them. Real Hope For Haiti Rescue Center. They have a donate PayPal Link on their site.
“A man helped by a morgue employee looks for a relative between the scores of corpses of people killed in the earthquake laying on the ground at a makeshift morgue in Port-au-Prince. Every five minutes, a vehicle pulls up to the gates of Port-au-Prince’s cemetery, delivering another corpse to a mass grave dug by authorities trying to clear the broken city’s streets of the dead.” from Yahoo.com
(AFP/Juan Barreto)
Hundreds of horrific, heartbreaking and sobering photographs are on the front pages of Yahoo, and as I view them I feel such a sense of impotency and waves of sadness, because no matter how much the rescue workers help, there are so many who need to be reached. They are hanging on to their lives by the thinnest glimmer of hope. I think everyone should go and take a look at the utter devastation which has rocked this tiny nation. Time is running out and we need to continue to donate and pray very hard because our prayers might touch the spirit of someone who lies trapped and they might hold on to our thoughts as a lifeline of hope and faith that soon, someone will pull them from the rubble, too.
Brothers and sisters of Haiti please hold on, please do not despair, please have faith and hope and even through this, please respond with love and try to keep from panicking. I wish I could do more and I light my candles and send out love and strength so that you may survive and be saved.
All you rescue workers and those traveling to Haiti, right now, your work is very difficult and we thank you for your tireless efforts and for giving aid with compassion and love to our Haitian neighbors. I pray for you to be filled with strength and the energy needed to lift up the injured and to locate the trapped. You are heroes.
Another place you can donate is The March of Dimes.
Doctor’s Without Borders is an organization dedicated to bringing aid to people in need. Their headquarters in Haiti was destroyed during the earthquake, and they have set up a clinic to treat the injured. Please join with other bloggers to donate to their cause and to provide good medical treatment, which is so desperately needed. Click their link here or on my side bar. Explore their site so you may learn about the good work they do.
As a rule I am not a first thing in the morning eater. I like very hot or icy cold drinks. I’ve been trying to use a lot less sugar in my coffee these days, (since the new year began) and find I really don’t miss the second raw sugar packet very much at all.
I like to look over the Style section of The Washington Post to see what Mooch and Earl have to say. They are always setting good examples for the rest of us and MUTTS must be well received, because it is always one of the featured comic strips that has the ability to make me smile and chuckle and feel good about the world.
Yesterday was an entirely different story. A horrific one. I only had time to glimpse the dire photographs on the front page for me to decide to stay glued to my seat, and continue rallying my Blogging community to join forces and do something. Wednesday’s Style and Food sections lay on the dining room table … untouched.
I didn’t make toast, but I did make coffee, in order to think properly. I finally grabbed something to eat around 7:30 last night and then it was back to the forum, to thank people for listening to my call to help our Haitian brothers and sisters. What I am so concerned with is that this time we do not drop the ball. As a global social network, BlogCatalog and BloggersUnite have brought bloggers together in an effort to reach out. I used Twitter and Facebook, my Gmail and Yahoo mail accounts, my telephone and my face-to-face connections. Helping was the only thing on my mind.
Although I love food and writing about it and featuring it is one of my true interests, I have decided to commit to less fun things and less eating in order to have a portion of my personal funding to specifically go toward assisting Haiti and their people. Were everyone to do something regularly and in small amounts, it surely would impact favorably on those less fortunate.
I want to thank everyone for hearing and acting. I want to pray for everyone who has left their homes and countries to assist in this great time of need. You are unsung heros. Mostly my prayers are for those who were taken, those left to grieve, and the injured who cry out in pain. I bless everyone involved to bring comfort and food and all of the necessary shelter, and to speak soothing words and hold those who need our human touch. Bless you all and please give on a regular basis, because when these supplies run out they assuredly will need more.
Photograph by: Patrice Coppee AFP/Getty Images
Here is the link: Ottowa Citizen
Please call Red Cross 1-800-435-7669 to make your donation to the Red Cross. Our Haitian brothers and sisters need our help right now. Please do not delay. Give Generously so they may purchase food, water, clothing, shelter and provide counseling to those devastated by yesterday’s huge earthquake. Join with Half Hour Meals and BlogCatalog Members and help make a difference right away.
Here is the discussion on BlogCatalog.com
Photos via Yahoo via Associated Press
Here is a link for BloggersUnite
