“Pious Words are not Enough”
Don’t go to the sales; dig deep into your pockets to prove that you really care about the world’s poor
Alice Miles’ article in today’s Times Online deserves to be read again and again. And her words, I hope, won’t be dead letters.
She also writes:
And what to do about the horror in South Asia? In the end that disaster, too, will be about poverty. Once the bodies have been buried and the grieving can lift their heads from their children’s graves, these people will need money, and lots of it. Money could not have prevented the tragedy, but it can certainly help to heal it.
The West will get bored first – yes, even of this. By the end of January, nobody will be talking much about the earthquake (with the exception of those forced to cancel winter holidays in Thailand and Sri Lanka)
