Three days after a magnitude 7.0-earthquake struck China’s
Sichuan province, residents are still awaiting rescue as well as
essentials like drinking water, food, medicine and tents. The epicenter
of the earthquake was in Lushan, a rural county 160 km southwest of the
provincial capital, Chengdu. China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency quotes local officials
as saying that there have been at least 192 deaths, more than 11,000
injured and that 23 people remain missing. However, confirming death
tolls and damage to buildings has proved difficult, because police have
been stopping both foreign and Chinese media from entering Lushan county
from the nearby city of Ya’an.
When this
earthquake struck Sichuan again (the last on was only 5 years ago) on
April 20, my first reaction was OMG I must go there in person to help. I
even asked many of my friends to join, but some of them said we are
only gonna make things worse if we are there, with our untrained
life-saving skills, not to mention there are many other professional
teams with trucks of foods and water and tents going the same way, while
the roads have been destroyed, so we should probably stay where we are and give ways to the professionals first. We can do nothing but pray.
Now I realize that I can still DO something, and here is my decision:
HALF of my profits between April 20 to May 20 will go to Jet Li's One
Foundation to help with the reconstruction of the devastated towns in
Sichuan. I know my help is tiny compared to the damage this earthquake
has done to Sichuan, but it matters to me.
My friends, please have
your fingers crossed, and pray for the buried victims to be found and
saved within the critical 72 hours. Wish everybody in Sichuan the best
of luck.
PS: Information about Jet Li's One Foundation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Foundation
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