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Haiti

My daughters who are 19 wanted to hop on a plane the next day to help in whatever way they could. I told them the best way for them to help is search out a local organization and see if there will be a mission trip going down there soon, or at the very least just lend their time with local organizations. I'm sure at some point in the near future they will go down with a mission trip to help but right now are giving what they can monetarily to help.
 
I have been following all the news as well and have said (and continue to say) prayers for the people of Haiti. Kudos to all of you and yours for your efforts to aid them.
 
ArpeggioAngel said:
I have been following all the news as well and have said (and continue to say) prayers for the people of Haiti. Kudos to all of you and yours for your efforts to aid them.
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Thank you, That is all we can do right now, is sent prayers and any type of aid we can. Thanks to everyone who has.
 
I've been following the news, saying prayers & tossing money in the Red Cross Haiti donations thing at Starbucks.

I have gotten a little annoyed, NOT WITH THE HAITIAN PEOPLE but with the BBC etc, saying that the USA & other countries somehow didn't move fast enough. We started the aid process Tuesday night & Wednesday morning after the quake. Countries all around the world sent rescue teams that left on Wednesday. I understand why desperate people in Haiti might feel that's not quick enough, but it's really the best anyone could do. If we had had supplies pre-positioned in Haiti, the buildings would have just fallen on them.
 
That I am annoyed with also. I just saw a report the other day that 10 days later medical supplies aren't getting to the hospitals and emergency tents. It took doctors to personally go to the airport and pick the supplies up themselves to get it distributed. There just is not enough manpower to move all the supplies and food that is coming in right now.
 
I don't think any of us can come close relating to the level of uter devestation they are dealing with. It was rather difficult to see that a group of international doctors (not naming the country) pulled out as they felt they needed "security" at the field hostpital they were running. Ends up that a reporter who is a doctor ran the hostpital over night by himself. The team did return the next day but i don't know if they stayed. It was said that the choice to pull out that night wasn't the will of the majority of the Dr. I'm sure it's a difficult and rather scarry task to serve others in and unknown country in these conditions but I would have hoped that they would have been trained to stand up to the situation at hand.
 
snowman86 said:
I don't think any of us can come close relating to the level of uter devestation they are dealing with. It was rather difficult to see that a group of international doctors (not naming the country) pulled out as they felt they needed "security" at the field hostpital they were running. Ends up that a reporter who is a doctor ran the hostpital over night by himself. The team did return the next day but i don't know if they stayed. It was said that the choice to pull out that night wasn't the will of the majority of the Dr. I'm sure it's a difficult and rather scarry task to serve others in and unknown country in these conditions but I would have hoped that they would have been trained to stand up to the situation at hand.
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Physicians & nurses are not trained to protect themselves in potentially violent or scary situations. They are specifically taught to ask those that are trained, such as police, to do that for them. I admire & respect any doctors & nurses who wanted to stay despite what may have been unsafe conditions, and have to COMMEND the reporter-physician who stayed, but violence isn't a physician's job or a nurse's job, so if things were getting potentially violent, it was reasonable to pull out the physicians & nurses.
 
The only country where we have homeless without shelter,
children going to bed without eating,
elderly going without needed meds, and mentally ill without
treatment - yet we have a benefit for the people of
Haiti on 12 TV stations.

I'm sure I'll hear stuff, but my feelings.. I know of people that are
still having issues from Katrina that were NEVER helped.

I do pray for those people, and feel bad for them.. like I did
the Samoan earthquake/Flooding...
BUT....
We need to take care of the home front before spending this much
money elsewhere.
They were warned long ago that their buildings would be trouble.
 
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