Sites such as Facebook and Twitter raise awareness of the current situations happening across the world while those who wish to donate can text their donations (even though these donations can take a month to process).
I know that this is not necessarily a new practice, we saw such compassion with hurricane Katrina and Haiti as well. I just find this to be such a heartwarming project; to reach those who otherwise would be uninformed and to gain support in their efforts to help others and expose the compassion our world has.
I agree about the social sites raising awareness and i read a similar article about Japan and it just made me think of how fast we can get information to each other.
ReplyDeleteSocial Networking is a great tool for raising awareness for Japan. Many organizations you would never think would raise money for them are, such as the NHL. I never knew they were donating money until i went onto their main page.
ReplyDeleteNot even 24 hours after the tragedy happened, social networks, search engines, even celebrity fan pages had links for donations. I'm impressed how quick and generous people have gotten helping out these countries in such dire need.
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