China Earthquake's Astounding Numbers: How You Can Donate
Posted by Dan on May 28, 2008 at 09:27 AM
Just read a post about a Wen Jiabao interview on the Time China blog and something really hit me from that post: "sixteen million buildings destroyed." Some people can understand the Sichuan earthquake devastation through personal stories, but I am at heart a numbers guy and that number hit me right in the heart. It is not the number of destroyed buildings itself that move me; hearing that number allows me to vividly understand the human impact of such massive (and now quantified) physical devastation.
The need is obviously massive and unremitting. Here is a post with links on how to donate to earthquake relief and also to Myanmar.
Comments
The number that hit me yesterday was this: 15 million people displaced by the earthquake. 15 million.
Posted by: chriswaugh_bj | May 28, 2008 6:54 PM