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| Want to do something to help Georgia? World Vision already working. |
| 2008-08-12 |
| World Vision began providing emergency assistance today to displaced civilians—most of them women and children—who managed to flee to Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. “Our staff have been hearing some truly heartbreaking stories—children who got out but their parents didn’t, for example,” said David Womble, World Vision’s national director in Georgia. World Vision provided essential food including canned meat with vegetables, pasta, canned fish, vegetable oil and iodized salt, along with emergency items such as bars of soap, toilet paper, wet napkins, towels, bed sheets and large woolen blankets to mainly women and children, who escaped the violence in Gori and villages in South Ossetia. The agency’s relief team met one 36-year-old mother who escaped the violence from Gori with her two children: “I have seen war, but what I saw today was terrible. I haven’t seen anything like that in my life. Click here to donate |
| Posted by:OldSpook |
| #6 Thanks for the link, OS. They'll be getting a little from the Russian-American Friendship Society of Iowa soon. ;) |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-08-12 13:23 |
| #5 Ok, did my minimal bit, hope they can process it, even though they don't seem to register non-Us addresses. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-08-12 12:38 |
| #4 Apparently the American embassy there has emptied their stores providing whatever help they can to the Georgian refugees. If I recall correctly, the supplies they had on hand were a little odd for people who spend most of their time at dinner and cocktail parties. Despite wild claims to the contrary, it seems our people were not totally unprepared for current events. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-08-12 09:43 |
| #3 You sure this World Vision place isn't just going to spend the money on an Obama campaign ad? After all, the best way to help in Georgia is to disarm the imperialist AmeriKKKa forces that caused this war in the first place, by assisting democracy in Georgia... |
| Posted by: gromky 2008-08-12 09:00 |
| #2 Yes I'll through $50 their way... but I'd rather through some cash to the Georgian Anti-Tank Fund... |
| Posted by: Thrinens the Really Smart8642 2008-08-12 03:12 |
| #1 Put your money where your mouth is. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-08-12 03:06 |