Worldwide Wednesdays: In memoriam

Hello, internet!

Yeah, yeah, I know. Who's a lousy blogger? Hannah's a lousy blogger! But this week, for what it's worth, I'm going to do my job.

You can probably guess where I'm going to direct your attention this week. It's on an island in the Caribbean, it's got a profoundly spiritual and resilient population, and it just can't seem to get a break. Haiti is hurting badly right now, and before I proceed to the bulk of this week's blog, I'd like to make what is probably the ten thousandth appeal you've encountered to please help if you can at all. What you're seeing in the news these days is just a shallow representation of the hundreds of thousands of individuals who have lost either their lives or pretty much everything they had. It's something you probably wouldn't even wish on the nastiest person you know, but it just happened to most of a country's population all at once. If you've contributed towards the relief effort already, you're a star. If you haven't but you think you might want to, I urge you to look into it. Money's what they need right now, every cent helps, and there are many ways to give it. Do some quick research to decide who you think will make good use of your donation. If you don't have a credit card to donate online or by phone, you can text the Red Cross to have a donation charged to your phone bill or hunt down one of the cash donation boxes that no doubt have popped up on campus or elsewhere in your community. Trust me, you won't miss that 10 bucks. Canada and Haiti are tight, and we owe it to them to pitch in. Because we can.