Twitter Relief Effort

So by now we “think” we know what’s going on in Haiti. I personally have been boycotting regular programming opting for Anderson Cooper’s coverage on the situation in Haiti. I have been motivated to give, and help organize with a couple of local efforts…blah! blah! blah! All the while, there has been someone who has not been as reserved. One person has caught my eye, and my attention on Twitter. If you are on Twitter, I encourage you to follow @ShaunKing. For the past week or so, Shaun’s passion for the hurting and desolate in Haiti has transformed into an all out relief effort that has stemmed from him and other like him. He has conducted Twitter-thons (version of a telethon on Twitter) to raise money to pay for computer equipment to aid relief workers and has secured a team of Neurosurgeons to go and help in Haiti (not to mention raising the money to fly them to Haiti)…Really folks, this has been incredible. He is not alone..I know this. he probably doesn’t want any attention on himself, but more likely on the dying folks in Haiti. In many ways this reminds me of Nehemiah’s role. What broke his heart inspired a vision, and that vision bears a movement. It’s a movement that has directed aid organizations and news outlets to locations within Haiti to get to places of dire need such as Notre dame Orphanage.

Am I writing this as an admirer of one’s tireless effort to help save lives? That is definitely worthy of writing about. But perhaps we should look at this and say to ourselves, “Just because I am thousands of miles away, just because I can’t hop a flight right now, doesn’t mean that I can’t do anything about this situation.” In today’s age, it only takes a keyboard or a text message to be intimately involved in a movement such as this. Some of us can do more; some can’t. Either way…just do something!

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