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Needs of Haiti and the limits of generosity
By - 02-22-2010 04:10 PM
Originally Posted at: The Japan Times Online
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MELBOURNE, Australia All over the world, people have responded generously to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti. In just three days, more than a million Americans had donated $10 by sending text messages from their cell phones. People with very little themselves, like Maria Pacheco, an unemployed single mother from Chicago, donated food and clothes.
Others did whatever they could from pedicures to washing cars to raise money. On current indications, the amount Americans will give to relief efforts in Haiti could surpass the $1.9 billion they gave to assist victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami, which until now has stood as a record for donations to a disaster outside the United States. Given that the U.S. is undergoing economic hard times, the size of the response has surprised many.
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The Japan Times Online
By - 02-22-2010 04:10 PM
Originally Posted at: The Japan Times Online
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MELBOURNE, Australia All over the world, people have responded generously to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti. In just three days, more than a million Americans had donated $10 by sending text messages from their cell phones. People with very little themselves, like Maria Pacheco, an unemployed single mother from Chicago, donated food and clothes.
Others did whatever they could from pedicures to washing cars to raise money. On current indications, the amount Americans will give to relief efforts in Haiti could surpass the $1.9 billion they gave to assist victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami, which until now has stood as a record for donations to a disaster outside the United States. Given that the U.S. is undergoing economic hard times, the size of the response has surprised many.
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The Japan Times Online
