A rumbling change, and some Hope
As I went to view a website today there was an ad for Red Cross - donations to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
What occured to me in reading it was that this was asking for support for people in a developed country. This marks a significant shift, with faint reminesance of world war 2.
In some strange way it made me hopeful. One my of biggest assumptions on giving strategies, caring about the world, ability to make a difference etc, is that people when people think of places like Africa it doesn’t cut through all the other noise they are trying to block out. It is too removed from their personal situation, from the way they look and live.
Terrorism, though it provides a binding agent to group cohesiveness, pits us into an us and them. Natural disasters like the Tsunami and now this do not. They remind us of the frailty of our own lives. These are people like us.
If good can come out of this, which it must, I think it could be a greater committment, understanding and support for so many of our world who are not blessed as I, or you.
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September 25th, 2005 at 9:54 pm
we mak a choice not about what happens to us but how we react to what happens to us.