ALEPPO

[Suzy]

I have also created a thread on KB. I hope they won't remove it.

We feel helpless watching all these people suffer. Imagine you and your whole family being killed in your own home. It's brutal, inhumane.

But we can do a small things to help. We can donate money, even a small amount to any of the organisations wh are trying to help. They need supplies, medicine, blankets, food, tents, buses to get people out.

Here's a list of the most worthy, but I'm sure there are many more. I just donated to Doctors without Borders.

www.upworthy.com/7-real-things-you-can-do-right-now-about-the-catastrophe-in-aleppo?c=ufb1

[Suzy]

It's sad that these kind of threads and messages get ignored. Other things to do, don't think about it and it will go away. But it won't.


Donating something is a very small thing but it might make a difference to someone out there, save a child, help a mother. If we think small and get together, we can help in so many ways.

[Miss Terri Novelle]

Done.

[ameliasmith]

I have just caught up on a little of the news.

My husband has an ongoing donation campaign for Doctors Without Borders. I might look into donating to another organization, too.

[Suzy]

Thank you. That's wonderful.

I suppose you're not as aware of it in America as we are over here. It feels so close. The news have it as number one on TV and in the newspapers. The images are shocking. And we get a lot of refugees coming in every day, especially to Sweden.

[Becca Mills]

These threads are a great idea, Suzy.

I committed last year to donating 10% of my gross royalties to refugee-assistance. I support the UN High Commission on Refugees and Doctors Without Borders equally.

It's still a helpless feeling. Money won't fix what's happening. It can only help a tiny portion of people around the edges.

[Suzy]

Thank you, Becca. I know money won't fix the problem, but if it can help doctors and other helpers it's something. Maybe comfort to one or two, but that makes all the difference to them.

[lou]

Because I follow disaster news closely, I "see" humanitarian crises that not lot of other people are seeing. And it's very hard to figure out where to donate in some cases. In Haiti after hurricane Matthew this year...well. Haiti, period. Two generations of corrupt, brutal governments, then a devastating earthquake (and there'll be another within a generation because there's a loaded fault that needs to snap in response to that quake). Cholera like nowhere else as a result. Then this hurricane came through, with all these people still living in blanket forts from the earthquake, years later. Death toll will probably never be known, but it might have been 2,000 or more. And 10 days later, when it's well out of the news cycle, old news ho-hum, I'm still reading on my news feed, and the government begins to shoot hungry people lining up for aid. But long searching and even emails to reporters on the ground got me no solid information on what agencies might be doing things right. I was nearly ready to mail some Haitian I saw interviewed in a story an envelope of cash, but of course the mail service is as corrupt as anything else there.

You do what you can and let go, I guess. Every year--and this is never in the news--95 million children under the age of 12 die worldwide. Most of that is preventable with super-basic medical care, like cheap anti-diarrheal drugs. And of course there wouldn't be such a problem without the profound overpopulation of humans, and if it were possible to get birth control to everyone on the planet, that'd be my choice of where to donate, as it'd address a root cause of so many problems.

[Suzy]

I think that if you have children of your own, it hurts so to see other children suffer. You want to hug them all and make it better.

I wrote a blog post last night about this- about doing something small to maybe make a difference to one or maybe two. What if your child was one of those? That would be a good thing.

susannefromsweden.wordpress.com/2016/12/14/thoughts-on-aleppo-think-small/

[Becca Mills]

Dec 15, 2016 6:01:26 GMT -5 lou said:

You do what you can and let go, I guess. Every year--and this is never in the news--95 million children under the age of 12 die worldwide. Most of that is preventable with super-basic medical care, like cheap anti-diarrheal drugs. And of course there wouldn't be such a problem without the profound overpopulation of humans, and if it were possible to get birth control to everyone on the planet, that'd be my choice of where to donate, as it'd address a root cause of so many problems.

Ninety-five million. God, Lou ... almost a third of the population of the U.S. dying in childhood every year. And with climate change, it's going to get so much worse. We're in for terrible times. It's hard not to take up permanent residence in despairsville.

The current round of cholera was accidentally introduced to Haiti by the UN, right? Of all the NOT helpful things ...