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Sunday, May 18, 2008 @ 6:03 PM
Help those in need TODAY. There are so many natural disasters happening around the world especially Asia today. CHINA.    People who are homeless sleep on the streets. A powerful aftershock rattled China's southwest early Sunday, hampering frantic efforts to find earthquake survivors and help nearly five million people facing the risk of disease and flood. The 6.0-magnitude tremor shook some of the worst-affected parts in Sichuan province six days after China's worst natural disaster in a generation left an estimated 50,000 people dead. The region has suffered at least 24 aftershocks of 5.0 or above on the Richter scale since last Monday's initial 7.9-magnitude quake, amid all-out efforts to rescue more than 10,000 people buried under rubble. The confirmed death toll from China's earthquake rose on Sunday to 32,477, the state-run Xinhua news agency said, citing the government's disaster relief headquarters. It put the number of injured at 220,109. Rain also compounded the misery for many of the estimated 4.8 million who have been left without homes. Tens of thousands of suddenly homeless people huddled in appalling conditions in the quake-stricken town of Maoxian under leaky makeshift rain covers, badly needing food, medicine and proper shelter, the Sichuan New Online site said in a report from the town. "Due to the rain in Maoxian, the people have gone from one disaster to another," it said, in a report that underlined China's huge humanitarian challenge. The World Health Organisation said Saturday that the lack of safe drinking water or proper waste disposal along with cramped conditions in such camps was "conducive" to disease outbreaks. -Survival chances greatly diminish three days after an earthquake, but some who have the courage to live on do get found. Just like a this man victim who stayed under the debris for at least 4days. He drank his pee & ate paper & cigarettes using only his right hand which was the body part he could move. But not all the rescue stories have happy endings. A man pulled alive from the rubble after 129 hours -- after his leg was amputated to free him -- died in a hospital Sunday of heart failure, state media said. //How to help today? MYANMAR.     The United Nations estimates that at least 1.5 million people in Myanmar have been "severely affected" by Cyclone Nargis, U.N. humanitarian affairs chief John Holmes said on Thursday. The secretive military rulers have let more foreign experts into the country in recent days to help the estimated 2 million survivors who do not have enough food, water or shelter more than two weeks after the storm struck. Despite thousands of tonnes of aid being flown in, aid groups want fuller access to help supervise relief in the aftermath of the May 2-3 storm, which the government says left nearly 134,000 people dead or missing. Unofficial figures are considerably higher. Food, shelter, medical supplies and water remain critical needs. "It was horrible beyond description," said a foreign businessman, one of a bout a dozen eyewitnesses interviewed by AFP. "Most of the devastated huts looked like they were empty at first glance. But there were actually survivors inside," he said. "One hut with no roof was full of about 100 people, crouching in the rain. There was no food and no water. Each person had nothing more than the clothes on their bodies, shivering in the cold." //How to help today? AIDS in AFRICA.    After watching the American Idol, Idols Give Back, Im now aware that AIDS is spreading all over. According to the World Health Organization, some 2.5 million Sub-Saharan Africans have AIDS-Africa is apparently in the grip of an AIDS pandemic. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has predicted outcomes for the region to the year 2025. These range from a plateau and eventual decline in deaths beginning around 2012 to a catastrophic continual growth in the death rate with potentially 90 million cases of infection. Each day, 6,000 Africans die from AIDS. Each day, an additional 11,000 are infected.  AIDS, AIDS, AIDS. All this talk about AIDS. Do you even understand the effects & how people die from AIDS? AIDS is caused by a virus (HIV). Thousands of bacteria can fit inside a cell in your body, but virus particles are so minute that hundreds of thousands of them could fit inside a single bacterium. They are totally invisible under a normal light microscope. Viruses cannot grow and cannot divide. They don't breathe, don't need food, don't live, and never die. All our technology has failed to produce a single non-toxic drug that attacks and destroys a virus efficiently. The HIV virus latches & disintegrates into our white blood cells(maybe only one) & waits for a specific virus that attacks the specific bodypart. Example: HIV virus latches onto white blood cells in the nose. Maybe 5days later you get a cold. The brain automatically orders the nucleus to be divided to kill the flu virus, but now with the HIV virus that has changed the chromosome in the nucleus in the white blood cell, it now divides into more HIV infected white blood cells. So, it doesnt kill the flu virus & has more HIV viruses. CANT COMPREHEND? WANNA READ UP ON YOUR OWN? Most of the people die because of AIDS in Africa. Parents leave their children & the children have no one to look after them but their oldest sibling who can be as young as 9. They become orphans. Many effects of AIDS are affecting the younger generation. //No one has the right to die of AIDS. Help today. //Help African kids see better. YES! will be setting up a collection centre for people to donate their glasses at their store at #01-073/075 in Suntec City Mall from today till May 29. THOSE WHO WISH TO DONATE THEIR SPECTACLES MAY WANT TO HAND THEM TO ME FOR CONVENIENCE. --- Mr Chan told us to help those in need. He said, that theres no point in receiving when you dont give back. Please. Help those in need. We are already in bliss. Do not be ignorant of others in misery & just looking to fulfil your own wants. $20 is enough for a day's worth of nutritious food & snacks for 3 kids in the feeding program. $50 is enough for 5 mosquito nets or enough Malaria pills to save 100kids from Malaria in Kenya. $100 is enough for a year's worth of food for an orphan in Kenya. $250 is enough for a year's worth of books for 3kids at the U.S after-school reading program. Donate, if thats all you can do! |