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Feeding the Hungry, Tending the Sick
Dec. 5th, 2021 08:57 pmSunday’s Washington Post has a front page article about South Sudan, where heavy rains have brought flooding, hunger, and disease. I’m glad to have contributed to Doctors Without Borders recently, as that organization is described as providing assistance, but I should do more. So should other people, if they’re comfortably off, with no urgent demands or higher priorities. I hereby offer to contribute up $300, matching other people’s contributions at two for one. That is, if you leave a comment that you are contributing $20 to Doctors Without Borders, or to a comparable aid organization, I will contribute $40 to DWB, up to a limit of $300. I will make payment during the last week of December, based on other people’s contributions of which I am notified through the end of December 25.
You can pass this on to friends who may be willing to chip in, and to leave a message for me. Whatever combination of people contribute, I will match their donations as set forth above. Can you spare $5 to provide $15 worth of aid to some of the world’s worst off people? (Those aided may be in South Sudan or elsewhere.)
Two further notes: I recall reading somewhere else that poor people in South Sudan, making $3.00 per day, joined to contribute a total of nine hundred dollars to Americans harmed by Hurricane Katrina. Can we emulate their generosity?
Secondly, according to the Post article, global warming is blamed for the Indian Ocean Dipole, a weather pattern leading to drought in Australia and excessive rains in Africa. The connection between anthropogenic global warming and a particular storm or other disaster may be only conjectural, but I am a believer in global warming, having been a skeptic a few decades ago. Despite uncertainties, it now appears highly likely that there are real problems which need to be addressed.
You can pass this on to friends who may be willing to chip in, and to leave a message for me. Whatever combination of people contribute, I will match their donations as set forth above. Can you spare $5 to provide $15 worth of aid to some of the world’s worst off people? (Those aided may be in South Sudan or elsewhere.)
Two further notes: I recall reading somewhere else that poor people in South Sudan, making $3.00 per day, joined to contribute a total of nine hundred dollars to Americans harmed by Hurricane Katrina. Can we emulate their generosity?
Secondly, according to the Post article, global warming is blamed for the Indian Ocean Dipole, a weather pattern leading to drought in Australia and excessive rains in Africa. The connection between anthropogenic global warming and a particular storm or other disaster may be only conjectural, but I am a believer in global warming, having been a skeptic a few decades ago. Despite uncertainties, it now appears highly likely that there are real problems which need to be addressed.
