Wednesday, January 27, 2010

What about Haiti?

When help is needed the most, most often the people who need it receive it late or not at all. I truly want to give to a charity since the day the devastation occurred. However, Wycliffe’s charity “Yele” had a couple of issues because his organization was receiving millions while the legacy, trophy, or corporate top-heavy charities were not even coming close. Then someone decided to slow his growth by publicizing a situation that he publicly says that had corrected some time ago.

There is so much in-fighting amongst the different organizations. In addition, people are starving and dying by not being rescued in a timely manner. Ask yourself, how does this help those in need? It does not. I too was horrified when the rescuers were only paying major attention to the one hotel that housed our fellow Americans. Realistically, more people should have been rescued had the efforts been fair across the board. I begin thinking just maybe the hotel built by better specs, from the looks of it the answer is probably not.

Where is our humanity? When you help someone is it supposed to be fair and just or is it to be selective and or conditional? The people of Haiti are still God’s children too. I’m thankful our soon to be “one-term” president sent aid sooner than later. Note that in previous times, the Haitian people have been turned away from our borders while others have selectively have been allowed to enter legally/illegally. You do the math. There is enough wealth in the world to feed the Haitian people 3 meals a day!!! Cut out all the greed, nepotism, bigotry and focus purely on a humanitarian effort to meet the needs of the people.