Haiti

[ailbhe]

I assume those of you who can donate - £1 or £5 or whatever - have already worked out where and how to do so. I almost donated yesterday morning and then remembered Gift Aid and waited for Rob to come home as he pays income tax so using his details means they get about 25% extra.

Money can't solve the problem, but it surely caused it, and donations (as distinct from loans) will help a lot. There's not much else we can do from here anyway.

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[ailbhe]

Oh, no - helpless, not criticised. My instincts are also telling me to adopt all the displaced Haitian babies. This would not help them. There will be lots of much more suitable people to adopt them. So I should send them more money.

It just doesn't feel like I'm doing much.

At least I haven't been watching the news or videos on websites.

[the0lady.livejournal.com]

Yeah I've been feeling helpless. And so fucking *useless*, too. I'm scaling new heights of self flagellation guilt - this morning I was looking at Alan's recycling bin and feeling guilty about the resources and energy that went into making that plastic box and into collecting our rubbish and disposing of it, when other people in the world would, like, be glad to have that to *live* under, let alone put their non-existent surplus into...

Gah. I'm trying not to sink into complete paralising nihilism, and not watching TV does help. Still hard though. One monet I'm like "you can't do any good there, you need to stay put and do what you can" and the next I'm all "you lazy coward! why aren't you working around the clock feeding all those hungry children???"

[ailbhe]

You don't know what to feed them, or how, for a start.

I'm beginning to get quite cross with journalists for not carrying aid-boxes around to give stuff to everyone they see.