May 17, 2008 by classi, Los Angeles
Dear Friends:
A super destructive earthquake in the magnitude of 7.8 struck SiChuan, the hometown of Pandas, on 05/12/2008. I first heard about it from online news and radio stations. As of today, 28881 people were confirmed dead, 198347 were reported injured and more than 50000 people became homeless. The death toll is still rising.
I have never seen a disaster as terrifying and heartbreaking as this one that I am seeing now from the videos, photos that I listed here, I feel as if I were in the scene and experiencing the critical moments between life and death. It’s the first time I truly feel how love and compassion are so needed but seem so difficult to reach. When you have your family, friends always around you, you don’t even feel that you really need it. But when you have to face the evil of death and fight against it for survival, love and compassion become so demanding yet so remote to you. By watching these videos and photos listed here, we’ll be moved and learn to appreciate and cherish the love and lives around us more profoundly. Disaster can happen any time and any where. Let’s appreciate and cherish our family, friends and even people around us now; they are actually part of our lives!
From the video and picture of Sichuan earthquake, I have seen kids, adults were buried under the rubbles of the collapsed buildings for more than 48 hours, yet, with the strong belief in their minds, some of them were rescued and still survive. Their strong beliefs are: some one will come and help, rescue them. But all these rescue effort will become so limited without the support from every one of us, disregarding our distance, age and race. We need your support financially, materially and spiritually. We know that we can bring the quake victims a strong support when each of our support merges together. There are still a lot of people still remain buried under the earth and are waiting for help in Sichuan. A lot of survival kids lost their parents, and tens of thousands of survivors lost their homes and are waiting for medical supplies, food, water and shelters. Time is very critical now for the rescue, don’t wait, please donate now for the suffering victims in SiChuan, the hometown of Pandas. We need more miracles there!
Donation Contact Info SectionPlease share your love and compassion with me by donating to any of the following organizations:
From their website Red Cross Society of China it appears that you can’t donate online, but you can send a check or wire transfer to:
Note: they request your address and phone number too.
You can donate online at World Vision
Checks, cash or wire transfers are accepted at Cathay Bank and will be deposited into a special account #01-130-005. For Cathay Bank locations and contact info, go to Cathay Bank and click on locations at the top. For donation info at the Tzu Chi Foundation site, go to Tzu Chi Foundation