It's sad, but apparently race and/or religion has played a huge part in media coverage and relief aid from both individuals and governments. Not opening fire at anyone, I just want to create more awareness, please help in any way you can. I apologize in advance if I have offended you in any way.
For those who don't already realize it's at least as worse as tsunami: Google Search for "Bigger than Tsunami"
Earthquake 'more devastating than tsunami', WHO Official, Timesonline Link
(I agree the people are all "donated-out" because of recent previous disasters, but that's not the case with the governments. I'm not judging anyone in particular, and I have not created a poll with crap like "I have donated only one third of what I donated to tsunami victims")
Can you please give these stats to your friends and acquaintances? It'll help create more awareness/shame/guilt, and probably generate some more aid.
Also, I request the active internet users and bloggers to write about it on their blog, post new threads in the "Off-Topic" forums of any site you're active at.
Thanks.
The earthquake left three million people homeless, three times the numbers displaced by the tsunami. The estimate of injured, as doctors painstakingly reach them, stands around 128,000.
From "A tale of two disasters -- and two responses", the NY Times' article
(Link)
(In case of the Tsunami) A United Nations emergency appeal to donor governments brought in 80 percent of the $977 million target in three weeks.
By contrast, three weeks after the earthquake, the U.N. had managed to raise just 20 percent of the $550 million it was seeking. The humanitarian relief operation that followed the tsunami was the largest in history, involving military forces from 40 countries.
....
The private sector was similarly big-hearted. In the United States, the tsunami sparked what by some reckonings was the greatest outpouring of charity ever mustered in response to a foreign disaster, from Hollywood celebrities writing million-dollar checks to schoolchildren adopting shattered villages in countries they had barely heard of. Doctors Without Borders was so swamped with donations in the first week after the disaster that it took the unprecedented step of asking people not to send any more money for tsunami relief.
Aid groups working in the earthquake zone do not have that problem. The New York office of Action Against Hunger, for example, had received just $42,000 in earthquake donations within three weeks of the disaster, compared with $475,000 in the same period after the tsunami.
From "When One Tragedy Gets More Sympathy Than Another"
(Link)
Private donations by Americans totaled $13.1 million for earthquake victims, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy. In comparison, Americans doled out $1.3 billion for the tsunami victims and roughly $2 billion for their own after Hurricane Katrina.
PS: Please read some quick facts if you don't realize that it was comparable to tsunami (these are facts, research a little):
[*]Google Search for "Bigger than Tsunami"
[*]Earthquake 'more devastating than tsunami', WHO Official, Timesonline Link
[*]The earthquake left thrice the number of people homeless as compared to tsunami's victims, Link to the NY Times' article (tsunami left more dead than injured, it's the opposite here, it left more injured than dead, and the living injured need more help than the dead). [*]The terrain is more tough, the tsunami victims weren't facing freezing temperatares and snow it is tough to drop aid there (some areas are only accessible by foot, roads are damaged and helicopter drops will just slide downhill). [*]It is not possible to move 5 million homeless people Southwards, to lower altitude areas.
For those who don't already realize it's at least as worse as tsunami: Google Search for "Bigger than Tsunami"
Earthquake 'more devastating than tsunami', WHO Official, Timesonline Link
(I agree the people are all "donated-out" because of recent previous disasters, but that's not the case with the governments. I'm not judging anyone in particular, and I have not created a poll with crap like "I have donated only one third of what I donated to tsunami victims")
Can you please give these stats to your friends and acquaintances? It'll help create more awareness/shame/guilt, and probably generate some more aid.
Also, I request the active internet users and bloggers to write about it on their blog, post new threads in the "Off-Topic" forums of any site you're active at.
Thanks.
The earthquake left three million people homeless, three times the numbers displaced by the tsunami. The estimate of injured, as doctors painstakingly reach them, stands around 128,000.
From "A tale of two disasters -- and two responses", the NY Times' article
(Link)
(In case of the Tsunami) A United Nations emergency appeal to donor governments brought in 80 percent of the $977 million target in three weeks.
By contrast, three weeks after the earthquake, the U.N. had managed to raise just 20 percent of the $550 million it was seeking. The humanitarian relief operation that followed the tsunami was the largest in history, involving military forces from 40 countries.
....
The private sector was similarly big-hearted. In the United States, the tsunami sparked what by some reckonings was the greatest outpouring of charity ever mustered in response to a foreign disaster, from Hollywood celebrities writing million-dollar checks to schoolchildren adopting shattered villages in countries they had barely heard of. Doctors Without Borders was so swamped with donations in the first week after the disaster that it took the unprecedented step of asking people not to send any more money for tsunami relief.
Aid groups working in the earthquake zone do not have that problem. The New York office of Action Against Hunger, for example, had received just $42,000 in earthquake donations within three weeks of the disaster, compared with $475,000 in the same period after the tsunami.
From "When One Tragedy Gets More Sympathy Than Another"
(Link)
Private donations by Americans totaled $13.1 million for earthquake victims, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy. In comparison, Americans doled out $1.3 billion for the tsunami victims and roughly $2 billion for their own after Hurricane Katrina.
PS: Please read some quick facts if you don't realize that it was comparable to tsunami (these are facts, research a little):
[*]Google Search for "Bigger than Tsunami"
[*]Earthquake 'more devastating than tsunami', WHO Official, Timesonline Link
[*]The earthquake left thrice the number of people homeless as compared to tsunami's victims, Link to the NY Times' article (tsunami left more dead than injured, it's the opposite here, it left more injured than dead, and the living injured need more help than the dead). [*]The terrain is more tough, the tsunami victims weren't facing freezing temperatares and snow it is tough to drop aid there (some areas are only accessible by foot, roads are damaged and helicopter drops will just slide downhill). [*]It is not possible to move 5 million homeless people Southwards, to lower altitude areas.
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