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Sept. 9, 2005 Everyone has been affected by Hurricane Katrina in some way shape or form. Are you part of the crowd that is a bit standoffish when it comes to giving money donations? Hey you’re not alone! Instead of worrying about where your money goes and where it will end up, why not do your part by cleaning out your closet and packing up old clothes, old shoes that you swore you bought to wear with something but then decided not to do so because they either don’t fit with anything you have, or simply because they pinch like crazy. Pack all your old items up and give it to the Salvation Army so they can give it to people who are in need of items we don’t use, especially now. Stop making excuses of wanting to keep an old pair of shoes or clothes that you haven’t worn in ages even if they still look o. You’re never going to wear them again anyway. Just give it away. Someone will be very appreciative of your good deed and you will be happier in the long run, not having to worry about your old clothes. Just think? How often do any of us get to have the chance do something for other people? How often do we get to lend a helping hand to those in need that are actually not in a foreign country but right here in the USA? Help your people and they will help you when the time comes. Looking back at this event, I feel blessed to have what I have. No one really expects a natural disaster to happen, much less in the United States. Not counting Earthquakes of course, because something like that is truly out of our hands. No one expected to have three to four states hit by this horrendous hurricane. Florida has suffered in my opinion enough. I mean come on, hurricane Ivan, hurricane Charley, hurricane Francis and hurricane Jeanne last year. And then this year parts of Florida are hit again but this time by hurricane Katrina? Those poor people will take forever to rebuild their lives, not to mention to people that are now left without a home in the aftermath of Katrina. Florida seriously needs to be left alone. They’ve been through enough. What amazes me most though with hurricane Katrina is the outpouring of people wanting to help rebuild Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana as well as Florida that has been struggling to rebuild since last year. People from those regions are known by many as the “Evacuees” from the hurricane hit regions, they are being housed in shelters all around the country and people everywhere are lending a helping hand trying to get everyone settled somewhere until they can return to their home states to gather possible shreds of memory or belongings that they had to leave behind. Something that has been mentioned in the news through out this event though, that has made me think is that reporters are referring to the “evacuees” as “refugees”. Why is that? In my opinion, refugees are boat people, people who’ve come here from a foreign land that is possibly a communist country, wanting to settle in America. Those people could be considered refugees, or people who’ve tried to escape Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Those people are refugees, but these people are not. They hurricane Katrina survivors and victims may have sought refuge, and a place to go, in doing so they had to evacuate their homes and home town, but are they really refugees? I would think not! They are people like you and me, who are struggling to get by right now, trying to adjust to a new form of what will be their every day life for the next years and months to come. They have nothing and now it is up to our help as well as the help of the military, Salvation Army and Red Cross to help them pick up the pieces and adjust to this new life. No doubt unemployment rate will go through the roof, no doubt people who’ve had jobs in the hurricane hit states will have to find new jobs and will become your new job competitors but look at the bigger picture. Help them and they will help you. ------------ Email Kimberly Nguyen: kimmyluvscoffee@yahoo.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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