Remembrance Week - December 26-January 1

In continuation to our efforts around the disasters, the WorldWideHelp group has set up a Remembrance Week. Here's how you can participate : Remembrance Week - 26th December, 2005 - 1st January, 2006 Last year, on the 26th December, an earthquake, and then a tsunami, killed,wounded, or impoverished hundreds of thousands of people in South Asia.During the course of the year, other disasters took their toll too. Most devastating of them: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the South-Eastcoast of the USA; and another enormous earthquake near Pakistan's border with India. These disasters took their immediate toll, and, each time, the world tried to help. But as calamity piled upon calamity, there has been a certain amount of fatigue. Perhaps people's stock of goodwill has run low. Perhaps seeing too much suffering hardens us. But, the fact is, the suffering from those disasters has not ceased. Parts of South Asia have still not recovered from December 26th, 2004. In the USA, normalcy hasn't ...

20:43:42 December 24, 2005, Saturday (PST) Source: Dina Mehta: Social Tools Social Networks

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