TO wake up and realise that; on top of you lie rocks, then you start wondering what has gone wrong, and where is the man, woman, children or the domestic animals? On that evening of 12th January, some people in Port Au Prince to this day could not see their people - dead or alive they simply did not know.
The earthquake lasted for ten minutes according to experts but the tremor generated by the quake will take a very long time before residents or survivors will come to terms with what actually happened on that fateful evening.
It wouldn't be suprising to witness the marked differences it will likely create when the millions of dollars sent by several African states to help Haiti in these hard times. One do not need to go to Haiti to measure the magnitude of the crisis, simply because when ever the earth shakes, it is disaster, and that means deaths. So the number of people who have died silently under the rubble may never be accounted for and thats bad news for the families of the survivors.
Even for Gambia's one million dollar contribution, a lot of people through the blog wrote us explaining the sorry state of a country that is by all indications regarded as the one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere.
Again, the face of Haiti is very much like some of the faces you see in Africa, have you been monitoring the news on Tv? Just look those children, shirtless, shoeless perhaps their parents have disappeared. You could not just your mind turn off your mind on it, you just wonder probably you have something in common with those sometimes gory images we saw from Haiti.
The African states that contributed money to support Haiti's cause, know full well that Africans have an inextricable link with Haitians, and the reason or reasons why the blacks are there is all-too familiar. So it's when a brother is down, try to help especially in these times.
Bravo to The Gambia for contributing one million dollar, showing once again that despite our size and geography, Gambians are capable of doing even bigger and greater things.
It wouldn't be suprising to witness the marked differences it will likely create when the millions of dollars sent by several African states to help Haiti in these hard times. One do not need to go to Haiti to measure the magnitude of the crisis, simply because when ever the earth shakes, it is disaster, and that means deaths. So the number of people who have died silently under the rubble may never be accounted for and thats bad news for the families of the survivors.
Even for Gambia's one million dollar contribution, a lot of people through the blog wrote us explaining the sorry state of a country that is by all indications regarded as the one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere.
Again, the face of Haiti is very much like some of the faces you see in Africa, have you been monitoring the news on Tv? Just look those children, shirtless, shoeless perhaps their parents have disappeared. You could not just your mind turn off your mind on it, you just wonder probably you have something in common with those sometimes gory images we saw from Haiti.
The African states that contributed money to support Haiti's cause, know full well that Africans have an inextricable link with Haitians, and the reason or reasons why the blacks are there is all-too familiar. So it's when a brother is down, try to help especially in these times.
Bravo to The Gambia for contributing one million dollar, showing once again that despite our size and geography, Gambians are capable of doing even bigger and greater things.
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