Please Love Haiti. But PLEASE only do so with the understanding that your love cannot begin & end there:
“Esther Duflo, a professor in MIT’s economics department, said, that every day, 25,000 children die of preventable causes, adding up every eight days to the approximate death toll of the Haiti earthquake. Though $2 billion has been pledged for the Haiti earthquake, Duflo asks why we don’t make the same level of commitment to prevent the daily death toll of children” (Galant & Sutter, 2010).
Luke 12:32-34
“Some 27 million people are enslaved today; and a person in some parts of India can be sold into slavery for about $5, he said. But awareness and action could abolish slavery for good in 25 years, he says” (Galant & Sutter, 2010).
Surely you will hear their cries and comfort them.
You will bring justice to the orphans and the oppressed,
so mere people can no longer terrify them.”
Psalm 10:17-18
Would refugee orphans in the United States foster care system = pure religion?
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1966998,00.html
http://www.starbucksloveproject.com/#/love/create/
Reference:
Galant, R., & Sutter, J. D. (2010, February 12). Ten big ideas from ted. CNN, Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/02/11/ted.big.ideas/index.html?hpt=C1