Onya, Oz

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Australia's $60 million of financial aid to tsunami-ravaged Asian countries inevitably would be increased... SMH

Donations to Australian Red Cross alone total more than $10 million. Australians have donated $4 million to World Vision, Oxfam has taken more than $2.5 million, while CARE Australia and UNICEF have raised more than $1 million each. SMH "They offered their barge to help with the clean-up. Someone had an earthmover and they offered the earthmover and their husband to operate it."


I wish there was more we could do.

Comments

[goodluckfox.livejournal.com]

I hope i hope I hope I hope that the US steps up with an an Apollo Program level of support. The scale of this thing is huge. Hundred (thousands?) of miles of populated coastline were affected.

Loxley

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

I've been amazed at the scale of the response after the first couple of days. Canada decupled their offer out of the blue from $4 to $40 million, and that's before provincial and private contributions. Gah.

I only wish this kind of action or support would happen to all other (http://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/sudan0504/) disasters as well. Some things should be beyond picking and choosing. :P

[goodluckfox.livejournal.com]

Sudan is different in that it's humanity's own fault. I know it sounds crazy, but if you're turning your own country into a warzone and killing your own people and causing all manner of trouble, then I really don't care. We can't BEGIN to save the victims of our own stupidity. But a natural disaster is different. It has nothign to do with politics or religion or anything. It just kills EVERYONE regardless of nationality, wealth, or whatever.

It says something about just how hopless our reliefe efforts to war torn places are when we'll tackle relief to something on the scale of the tsunami instead becaue "it's a problem we can actually solve."

Our huanity demands that we help the tsunami victims.
Our humanity IS the problem in the warzones and other unstable areas.

We can't aid people who are hellbent on killing each other, and are stealing the relief supplies and the trucks they came in on and use them in their own military campaigns. In psychobabble, doing so would be called "enabling behavior." It's worse than simply doing nothing.

Loxley