Saturday, May 10, 2008

This time last week

A chill was sent through the spine of the world on Saturday, May 3rd, a week ago, when Cyclone Nargis hit the southern shores of Burma.

It is now May 10th. A whole week later and those 1.5 million survivors are waiting on aid. They are without shelter, without food, without water.

Imagine every homeless person you've walked by on the streets of New York or your own city and multiply that number a million times. It's hard to believe but it's true. It's a reality -There in that Irrawaddy Delta 100,000 souls were washed away.

It is a crime against humanity to be comfortable in our own skins and not make this disaster our problem.


And that is all we are asking of you. Start to care. Talk about it. And act.

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