aid appeal
8 May, 2008 by blue soup
Poverty is rife in the UK, but at least we stand half a chance of help if needed. The cyclone that hit Burma has destroyed homes, families and taken more lives than we can imagine. If you’re reading this blog, you’re priviledged to have enough money to use the internet, to have access to a computer. Is that chair you sit on comfortable? How was your dinner last night? Did you cook, or did you get a take away because you couldn’t be bothered?
Do something worthwhile today.
The front page of The Metro this morning urged its three million readers to donate just £4 each to easily raise the £10m that has been estimated as needed to help. Sod £4. Give a tenner.
You’ll have forgotten you didn’t spend it on three beers within a fortnight anyway…
You’re so right - my middle class guilt has kicked in….
This will sound harsh, but I’m not going to donate money because the actions of the military junta in refusing to allow skilled, foreign aid workers into the country, along with their refusal to allow people to distribute aid smack to me of corruption. It also makes me quite sure that any donation probably wouldn’t go to the people that need it.
The latest reports say that foreign aid workers are not being allowed into the country to help and that they cannot even apply for visas until Tuesday next week. Reuters are reporting their actions so far as a generally feeble response.