I had grand ideas for several pointless blog topics lamenting over the cold weather and how much I hate Twitter, but in light of the recent earthquake in Haiti I can’t seem to allow myself to pen a bunch of frivolity. In the span of several minutes over 100,000 people were crushed to death, hundreds of thousands more were injured and buried under rubble and debris. Orphaned babies are sleeping in parking lots. The hospitals are gone. Prisons overturned. My brain can’t quite grasp such tragedy. I’ve been glued to CNN since Wednesday.
I often write about Compassion International, a children’s aid non-profit that is doing amazing work in third world countries around the globe. Compassion aids 65,000 children in the country of Haiti alone. Around 6,400 of those children are in the epicenter of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince.
If, like me, you are feeling hopeless in the middle of this disaster and want to get involved, please consider Compassion. All funds raised in response to the Haiti earthquake will be used immediately to reequip Compassion’s local support structure and to provide for the immediate needs of Compassion-assisted children and families.
Whatever you do, please get involved somehow. Sure, our country is in an economic crisis. However, even the poorest of us in this great nation still have so much more in comparison. Please give and even more importantly – please pray.
Read the Compassion Blog here: http://blog.compassion.com/tag/haiti/
A year ago after my sister took a trip to Africa, my kids and I chose a little girl to sponsor through 
