Following on from my last post, reports are now saying that around three million people are likely to be affected by the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti and the deathtoll is expected to be in the thousands.
As previously mentioned, I visited Haiti in April 2008 at the time when there were riots in the streets over skyrocketing food prices. I was there with Compassion Australia to see the work they are doing in Haiti. Leading that tour was DJ Konz from Compassion. He joined me on the phone this morning during my radio programme on 98.5 Sonshine FM.
While details are still sketchy, DJ gave listeners a better understanding of the enormity of the disaster in Haiti. You can hear what DJ had to say by clicking the play button on the audio player at the bottom of this post.
Compassion will endeavour to keep sponsors up to date with the situation for those children sponsored through Compassion on their website. They will also put a disaster relief plan in place as soon as possible. Your donations will make a huge difference.
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I just see it in the news. How horrible and devastating. Sometimes I wonder if this is caused by “us”? Seems like it mostly hits the poorest.
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