Tis the Season

[penmage]

etoilepb has pointed me in the direction of Amazon.com's American Red Cross Disaster Relief fund page.

Every time you hit refresh, the number of people donated and the money raised goes up. Even if you just do nothing but sit there hitting refresh refresh refresh. It's gone up $12,000 in the last five minutes of me sitting here.

My faith in humanity is at least a little bit restored today.

Comments

[magentathompson.livejournal.com]

I find it hard to be happy. I'm thrilled that people are willing to come forth and help these folks, but I wonder why, when hurricanes killed thousands in Haiti and Grenada, no one cared this much.

[leiabelle.livejournal.com]

I donated then, and encouraged others to do so. :)

Navah, thanks for the link. Have posted it in my own LJ.

[magentathompson.livejournal.com]

*thumbs up* Same here! And then I feel so crappy because I have so little, and so many people need to be helped. :(

[penmage.livejournal.com]

I dunno. People can't snap into action every time there's a crisis - as much as I wish they could, it's not humanely possible. But when I see something like this - tangible evidence that people care, that they're helping - regardless of all the oher disasters that didn't get funded, regardless of the horrible amount of casualties and destroyed lives - watching that number rise by the second kind of restores my faith in humanity.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

That's one of the loveliest things I have ever seen.

Thank you. Thank you for pointing this out. I needed it.

[penmage.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? It's the jolt of hope I needed in this whole horrible business. No matter how much of a mess we make, or how bad things get, there will always be a force of good in people, and it will rear its head when it's needed most.

[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

It just hit a quarter-million dollars

[penmage.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just - wow. Go, world, go.

[peartreealley.livejournal.com]

Yesterday I just looked and marveled at the charity of others, but later it bothered me. So today I went back and donated myself.

Thanks for pointing this out, Navah!