Update: Not too late to help Japan's Most Vulnerable

Commentary
Jean Purcell

Over a week ago, the cataclysmic breadth of the day brought focus to finding and helping survivors in Japan as quickly as possible. Earthquake. Tsunami. Desperate struggles to survive. Loss and grief. Fires. Complete destruction. Food shortages. Water shortages. Electricity shortages. Hunger. Thirst. Homelessness...Freezing cold and snow. Nuclear reactor failure threats in multiples.  Concerns immediately pushed efforts toward  ongoing hunger and onset of illnesses in the wake of extreme situations. Hundreds of thousands had lost the basic provisions of life. 

Today, hundreds of thousands of people of Japan are still in serious need. As mentioned in a blog post here on March 17, a long list of disasters and tragedies overwhelmed Japan on that jarring day:

More than half a million people are affected and in need of on-going assistance. Let's remember them, try to remain informed, learn what organizations in our own nation are doing, and how we can help. Some can go. All can do something, especially those who have an abundance of the essentials and non-essentials for survival.
Those who can do something should do something.


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