From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Fri Jan 07 2005 - 14:29:43 GMT
Hi Ant, Sam, Dan...
I appreciate the thought and spirit behind Dan and Ant's offer, but
Sam makes a great point. I was tempted to say the same, but didn't
because I didn't want to appear to be downsizing Dan and Ant's
generosity, which I certainly am not.
Since Sam has spoken up I feel obligated to support him. The
outpouring of sympathy and support for the tsunami victims has been
wonderful, but their plight is primarily due to unpreventable natural
disaster. The ongoing deaths from preventable disease and
malnutrition, not just in Africa but the world over, and most
inexecusably in the richest countries, amount to just about a tsunami
a day. We can donate money to ameliorate these problems; but, just
as important, we can work to change government/business policies that
contribute to these preventable disasters in the first place.
Thanks to all,
Mark Steven Heyman (msh)
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On 7 Jan 2005 at 10:41, Sam Norton wrote:
Hi Anthony,
> However, I am prepared to send you or anyone else on MOQ Discuss a
> "free" copy of the thesis - till the end of this month - in return
> for a contribution of whatever they can afford towards the Tsunami
> disaster via directly donating to whatever Aid agency that they see
> fit. Just send me an e-mail to me requesting the thesis with brief
> details of your contribution (i.e. amount and organization donated
> to) and I'll send out the thesis to you by return e-mail.
I don't want to be the one to shout 'bah humbug', but apparently
there is now enough money raised for tsunami relief to provide $1000
for each of the five million people most affected. That's an awful
lot of money - and, frankly, the amount of people who've died is
about the same as the number of under-4s dying from malnutrition
each fortnight in Africa, and that's going to keep on happening
whether it makes headlines or not.
If you enlarged the criteria to something more long term (eg
http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/home.html or http://www.data.org/)
then I'll take you up on your offer, with thanks.
Sam
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