<p>PIH is one of the charities to whom we donate regularly, but I made an additional donation this morning prior to logging on to CC.</p>
<p>I also donated to Partners in Health this morning…</p>
<p>Does that make 17?</p>
<p>I posted the link on my Facebook page, and sent it to quite a few folks at work. I’m going to send it to my church, too.</p>
<p>Just did facebook, too…with link to PIH</p>
<p>My heart goes out to the people of Haiti! Dictators, devastating hurricanes, and now this…</p>
<p>Do y’all know very much about Haiti? Our kids study it in AP Human Geo and I’ve read quite a bit about it. Even before the earthquake, no one had any solutions. The super smart people who think about these things a lot had no good solutions to ever bring the country out of dire poverty.</p>
<p>Count me as another CC donor to PIH. (Donated this am before reading this thread!)</p>
<p>Not sure if you guys counted me - but I’m in with a donation to PIH before I posted the link</p>
<p>thanks for the link scualum-</p>
<p>I think that’s 19…</p>
<p>I have been linking the PIH site in all my personal and business emails. I suggest everyone do the same. Remind people it will only take a minute. They make it so easy.</p>
<p>I didn’t look through this whole thread, but I just read on the internet that there were Florida college students staying in one of the hotels that sustained serious damage. Horrible!</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582937,00.html[/url]”>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582937,00.html</a></p>
<p>Perhaps the one bright side to all this (if it could even be considered as such in troubled times like these) is the reminder to us all of the fragility of humanity, and the chance to witness the empathy, compassion, and our shared humanity that we’re capable of. It’s just a shame that it often takes tragedies of such magnitude to remind us of that, and to distract us from the inconsequential and pointless bickering we engage in everyday.</p>
<p>Really sad reading about the history of Haiti, from a pretty rich colony under the French to Duvalierism compared to a turn toward a market economy in the Dominican Republic in the 70s and the corruption under Aristides leaving the wasteland of Haiti today (and vulnerability to a shock like the earthquake) at $1000 GDP/capita while the Dominican prosper relatively at $8000 GDP/capita.</p>
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<p>Great idea…I’m going to do this, as well.</p>
<p>[Lynn</a> University, Boca Raton, Florida](<a href=“http://72.167.40.228:9080/]Lynn”>http://72.167.40.228:9080/)</p>
<p>^Update regarding the missing students from Florida–Lynn University</p>
<p>^ all five safe----good update thanks for posting</p>
<p>Yes, but there were 12 people in total on the trip—7 still missing.</p>
<p>[Lynn</a> University, Boca Raton, Florida](<a href=“http://72.167.40.228:9080/]Lynn”>http://72.167.40.228:9080/)</p>
<p>update regarding the Lynn University missing students—7 of the 12 students have now been accounted for</p>
<p>We have twitter video of the US Coast Guard buzzing our group from Central Florida, letting them know that they know where they are. Working to get the group out … maybe by Friday, as we have several teenagers in the group and there’s concern for their safety the longer they are there. Update from New Missions tells of several local people they’ve lost from elementary school children to a kindergarten teacher. It’s very sad … but we’ve been told as they went to high ground last night because of the tsunami alert and slept outside… they could hear all around them floating in on the breeze groups of people singing hymns. Even in the midst of the devestation … there was praise in the air for those who’d survived and prayer for those who were lost or missing. Our team members said it was something they’d never forget …</p>
<p>zebes, praying for Haiti</p>
<p>if you have not already…
[Partners</a> In Health (PIH), Health Care for the Poor](<a href=“http://www.pih.org/home.html]Partners”>http://www.pih.org/home.html)</p>