Hello. Today I'll be blogging about the situation in Haiti. As you all know, Haiti has just met with a disaster: a magnitude 7.0 earthquake. It is claimed that thousands of people have died from this catastrophe. The earthquake hit the south of Haiti's capital, Port-Au-Prince. The Red Cross says up to three million people have been affected. Due to the earthquake, phne lines to the country failed. So this is the summarised version of what happened to Haiti.
What I really reflected was that though not many people know about this country Haiti, yet many countries still offer assistance to this country. This shows that compassion lives in many. However, people still need assistance. PEOPLE STILL NEED HELP! There's no point joining facebook groups saying, "Every person who joins, we will donate $1 to Haiti". Most likely, that would not happen.
Haiti is definitely in a state of confusion. Sporadic violence, looting and gang-related gunfire broke out under sweltering Caribbean skies even as thousands of US forces awaited deployment from a newly-arrived aircraft carrier sitting in the waters off the city. A teenage boy working for the charity foundation of Wyclef Jean, the Haitian-born hip-hop superstar, was shot dead as he drove a truck-turned-hearse away from a cemetery. "Somebody wanted to carjack him," said Mr Jean, who arrived in the city on Thursday and put his staff to work clearing bodies. "Two shots."
In conclusion, I would like to share with you all a video.
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Though I agree that joining facebook groups that promise to give 1 dollar for every person who joins is most probably not gonna happen, it does spread the word about Haiti. It will spread awareness about what is happening in Haiti and it will eventually lead to more people knowing about it. This will result in more donations or volunteers as more people would know about the situation in Haiti. Therefore it is not true that joining such groups on facebook is totally useless
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