Please help China’s earthquake victims
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan Province, China has so far killed 20,000 people in the area, with millions affected.
This death toll is expected to reach 50,000 in near future as more bodies recovered from under the rubbles.
Those who survived are in urgent need of clean water, food, proper shelter and medicines or they may soon facing new disasters like starvation and diseases.
Sichuan is my home province. I have many friends and relatives live in the area. All of them survived, but for some, their houses, their possessions, everything they had have been lost. They are tramatised and don't know how to live through.
I cannot imagine the mental suffers people who lost their family members, their friends, their beloved ones are now having.
A lot of schools collapsed in the earthquake. Hundreds of students are still stranded under tons of rubbles. For one town, 80% of young generation might be lost in this disaster. I cannot imagine what enormous amount of courage would required to help those parents to live through this hard time.
Even a big country like China cannot cope a natural disaster in this scale. There is a shortage of tents, clean water, and transport equipment to get those aids to the people affected. Lightweight rescue tools such as hammer and jack are also in desperate shortage.
We have the power to help.
We may not have the ability to resurge those who passed away in this very unfortunate natural disaster, but we can help by reduce amount of the unneccessary death after the disaster simply just because there is lack of clean water or food.
With your donation, we can provide the people affected food and clean water to help them survive through possibly hardest time of their lives.
Most importantly, our help give them hope. They will know that they are not alone, people around the world care about them, and want help them to live on, to rebuild their home, their once a peaceful town in beautiful mountain valleys.
This appeal is also very personal. I've been to many of the towns destoryed in this earthquake many times before: the region was my usual summer camp ground. Please take my word, the people there were the friendliest and kindest locals I've never seen in other parts of China and the World. I really don't know what they have done to deserve such a punishment.
Red Cross New Zealand and around the world are now taking donations. If you are reading this from New Zealand, please visit here to make a donation(select campaign "China Earthquake"). If you are reading in other parts of the World, please contact your local Red Cross, Red Crescent or Red Crystal to ask the details on how to make a donation to help china earthquake victims or visit their website.
There is a chinese proverb says something like "a picture's worth a thousand words".If all I said cannot persuade you to help them, I think you should have a look this photo (warning: shock picture)before you turn down my appeal.
