The Natural Disaster in Haiti

If you don't know this, crawl out from under the rock you're living in. Haiti experienced an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale. This unfortunate country keeps getting attacked by natural disasters, such as the hurricane that hit there in 2008, costing them nearly one billion dollars. Luckily, a lot of people have jumped to help with the cause. For instance, you can text Haiti. to 90999, which will donate ten dollars to the cause, which will be charged on your phone bill. All phone companies currently support this option. Moreover, you can donate any amount of money through various charities and corporations to help the people who are struggling in Haiti. This demonstrates that while mankind is greedy by nature, they are compassionate as well. Although the estimate is not as high as before, they are estimating that 450,000 people died in Haiti. This is still a ridiculous tragedy, and its awful that this had to happen to these people. I hope that people continue to contribute to the people suffering in Haiti. Unfortunately, things like this die down, and after a short period of time, people begin to believe that these people do not need help anymore. Contrarily, they do. I hope that companies and charities will promote donations months in advance as well, because the damage that was done is not repairable over a short period of time.