Charity begins at home

15.02.10

A pre-ice storm struck the eminent Northern Plains states the weekend of January 22 - more than two weeks. More than 3,000 power poles were knocked down, and since then more than 15,000 people living in and around the section of the Cheyenne River were without electricity, water, heat and gasoline. Temperatures were below zero with wind fierce. The situation is desperate.

Students of the University of South Dakota have collected shoes to send to the enclosure - shoes! In the richest country "in the world" people living in one of the harshest climates need shoes.The South Dakota Community substructure accepts donations to provide immediate assistance to those who need it most.

It is easy to give money to victims of disaster in a country extrinsic (like Haiti) or in a beautiful city (like New Orleans). Who makes us feel good. It is easy to ask more general questions concerning the issue of corruption in Haiti has such a desperate socio-economic development. It's easy to cluck our tongues at the lack of infrastructure in Haiti. It's even easier to talk about the more questionable the wisdom of building a city below sea level.It is easy to read stories about the big snowstorms closed the Washington, DC, as the photographs of children making snowmen, 20 years and some arrange fights snowballs, and some thousands of travelers inconvenienced. It's nice.

Source: San Luis Obispo Tribune