Posts Tagged ‘Charity’

In light of the devastating earthquakes and tsunami in Japan, I would like to encourage everyone to take some time and do what you can. While I’m sitting here with my laptop, enjoying a beautiful early Spring day in NC, Japanese people are struggling to find water, food, and medical care. During catastrophic events, the medical care infrastructure is usually destroyed or rendered inoperable.

Miyagi Prefecture, Japan - Post Tsunami (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

That’s an ambulance in the above photo.  Medical staff is going to have a difficult time accessing and transporting injured tsunami and quake victims.  As such, I would like to encourage everyone to donate to Doctors Without Borders.  They are a fantastic organization which provides urgent medical care during times of crises like the Japanese tsunami.  Since they are independent and not affiliated with any one country or religion, they are often allowed to assist in places where religious/country-sponsored organizations are not.

Please, donate.  I can’t go to Japan and personally assist, but I can help support those who do.

Thanks to everyone who donated.  When we reached the halfway mark on the funds needed for Ryder’s surgery, the vet performed the procedure.  The kitty is recovering nicely and waiting on her forever home.  I’m not sure if the adoptive family came up with the remaining half of the costs or not, but all’s well that ends well for Ryder.

Charity Kitty in Recovery

I don’t normally ask people to donate for things, but the alternative was that this otherwise healthy kitty would have been euthanized simply because her original humans didn’t think she was worth saving because “she was just a barn cat.”  Stuff like that makes me so angry, and if were up to me people like that wouldn’t be permitted to have pets.