Al G Smith

Do you consider yourself a hard person?

Here’s a little test…

Read this and try not to weep:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34908102/ns/world_news-haiti_earthquake/

How would YOU like to think of ending your life crawling in the mud with dead friends around you, while flies eat at the hole in your head and rats feed off the soiled diapers of your elderly compatriots?

Natural disasters can affect anyone at any time and wouldn’t you hope, if you were one of those affected, that someone might show that they care?

If we don’t change the way we unthinkingly fail to support other human beings — until a terrible crisis happens — then sad to say, it is likely that many of us will eventually end up in a sad and neglected state while we simply wait to die… Even so, we may never be as unfortunate than these poor elderly Haitians…

How can we fail to appreciate how fortunate we are?

How can we not help them?

Here is one option to help in moments by making a simple donation via Google’s Haiti Crisis Response web page (click image below):

…or perhaps you are too hard?

Then you have my pity.

Also accepting cash and in-kind donations are the following sites: Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, UNICEF (1-800-4UNICEF), Direct Relief, Yele Haiti, Partners in Health, Red Cross, World Food Program, Mercy Corps (1-888-256-1900), Save the Children, Lambi Fund, Doctors Without Borders, The International Rescue Committee, Care, William J. Clinton Foundation, Meds & Food For Kids, Feed the Children, Habitat for Humanity, Mayor’s Fund for NYC

For every minute you have used a mobile phone / cell phone over the past decade another person has DIED in the Congo in the ongoing, brutal war that the world has barely heard anything about…

That is around 5,500,000 deaths, so far - Five-and-a-Half MILLION DEATHS -… a number that is rising at around half a  million per year!

During a 10 minute conversation on your mobile/cell 10 more deaths will occur - and half of these are likely to be children under 5 years old.

Every month over 1100 cases of rape are reported - a fraction of the likely figure - as those who gain $144,000,000 a year from extorting the income from the mining of mineral resources in the Congo continue their inhuman, intimidating reign of terror… That amounts to around 250,000 women and children raped in recent years, as part of this horrendous exploitation of ‘blood minerals’!

And anyone who owns or uses a MOBILE PHONE / CELL PHONE - or other electronic device such as a PC or laptop - made by manufacturers who buy mineral resources such as Tin, Tantalum and Tungsten from the Congo are effectively supporting this regime of terror and genocide.

A regime of terror that compares only with the Nazi’s of World War 2 in terms of the magnitude of their genocide - and are even worse in terms of their use of rape as a weapon of war - yet we hear almost nothing about it…

YOU can  - indeed you MUST - do something NOW.

Don’t dare to make another mobile phone / cell phone call until you have done SOMETHING…

Here is how:

Visit and Sign the Pledge: http://RaiseHopeforCongo.org

“War Against Women” (12 mins 49 sec duration) as featured on “60 Minutes”:

Watch CBS Videos Online

Visit and Sign the Pledge: http://RaiseHopeforCongo.org

CNN - Inside Africa considers what WE can do:

Visit and Sign the Pledge: http://RaiseHopeforCongo.org