Dear FG Team,
“Anybody there?”
… this is the question that jolted me today as I heard it echo from the voices of rescuers in Turkey and Syria.
Rescuers then fall into a deafening, suspenseful silence so as not to miss any faint cry or any sign of life from deep inside the rubbles of the 7.8 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that struck four days ago. It is a race against time and the window of rescue is closing in. On the live coverage, Baby Helin was pulled in time out of the rubble unscathed but sadly not the 21,000 who died. Their fates were sealed deep in the cold, dark devastation of these earthquakes.
Here at home, the pain and suffering from thousands of miles away linger in our consciousness as we go about our daily lives. There may be many questions we ask ourselves. Questions we may be able to answer but many, we cannot.
How do we make sense of this . . .
Perhaps, this is not the time to ask questions where answers may not exist. Perhaps, this is simply the time to act, to help in any way we can.
We donated to https://www.directrelief.org/emergency/turkey-syria-earthquake/ on behalf of our team. If you wish to do more, please feel free to click the link. There are many organizations which make helping easy such as https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/, https://www.unicefusa.org/, and many more.
Anybody there?
. . . we are here. Together, we work to be able to help. It is our mission, the essence of our humanity.
Take care, everyone!