The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) is responding to the destructive earthquake that has just hit Haiti, and we are writing to encourage you, as a member of the Ivey community, to support the WFP’s response. WFP teams are already on the scene, mobilizing emergency food assistance to families, and we can help them reach more families in need.
You’ve probably seen the pictures showing the devastation wrought by the severity of this earthquake. We still don’t know the full extent of the damage, but we do know that millions of people are without food.
When a disaster strikes, access to food is often the most urgent need. WFP is working nonstop to mobilize critical emergency supplies, but the World Food Program needs your support. In this critical hour, please give as generously as you can to meet the enormous need in Haiti by visiting the following link: http://www.firstgiving.com/hea/
We will keep you updated on the latest developments. Thank you so much for your support in this tremendous moment of need.
Life Sayings – Bertrand Russell
Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.
This has been my life; I found it worth living.