Comments on: Worse than Katrina?

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:37:59 +0000

Good job Mom! Simon’s school had a bring your change in fund raiser last week. He now keeps saying “every little bit helps.” You should be a proud grandma.

By: Elaine Bush, GFWC IL

Elaine Bush, GFWC IL — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:36:59 +0000

Thanks for all that information, Karen. People from one of our churches in Tennessee were there where they had built a church in the last decade. Fortunately they had just walked out of a store and were in the middle of the street!!! All are safe as are a missionary couple and their son.
Yes, we need to be sure it is an honest charity. But they needed the help before and now it is worse. Remember our medicine bottles which we sent – they were used as ‘packing peanuts’ around non-perishable items being shipped down there. Once there they were used to give people one pill a day. Tonight on the news they were talking about the tons of supplies including medical items being flown in to help.

By: Diane Addante, GFWC IL

Diane Addante, GFWC IL — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:57:06 +0000

Thanks for this info, Karen. We are lucky to be part of a volunteer organization that partners with other great organizations. There are so many people in Haiti already trying to help this poor country, even before this earthquake. I hope that from this disaster, the country will get the assistance it needs to not only survive, but thrive. Those people have been through so much in their history. They sure don’t need this. Donate wisely, no matter how much.