Flooding, again
Jan. 13th, 2011 06:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizbeeObviously, the Queensland flooding is devastating, emotionally and financially. A lot of people have lost everything, and are in the position of having to rebuild their lives from scratch. Jobs have literally been washed away. There is a need for charity, and as usual, fandom is opening their wallets and notebooks, with QldFloodAuction already up and running.
But Queensland is part of a rich first world country, with public health care and a functional welfare system. Emergency payments are already going out to people in need.
Meanwhile, it's a year since the Haiti earthquake, and people there are still dying.
If you're thinking of donating to Queensland, please consider sending part of that money on to the Red Cross, or another organisation working in Haiti and other places where the need is dire. Australia's safety net has a lot of give. Other places don't have one at all.
But Queensland is part of a rich first world country, with public health care and a functional welfare system. Emergency payments are already going out to people in need.
Meanwhile, it's a year since the Haiti earthquake, and people there are still dying.
If you're thinking of donating to Queensland, please consider sending part of that money on to the Red Cross, or another organisation working in Haiti and other places where the need is dire. Australia's safety net has a lot of give. Other places don't have one at all.
