Japan deserves our help

While the tragic events of the earthquakes and tsunami's still haunt the people in Japan, i can't help but feel we are currently seeing a slight crossing of charities with Red Nose Day now upon us.

It will certainly be expected that we dig into our pockets and donate to both charities with each recieving quite a lot of coverage in the UK. This leads to the common problem of having so many charities that need our support. Who do you give your spare moneuy too? And with the struggling economic state of our country, it's become even harder to scrape together some money to spread across the many people that desperatly need it.

However, i do feel that it is important we don't take our attention away from Japan. As important and worthwhile Red Nose Day is, i think we need to keep in mind the urgency and the scale of destruction that Japan has faced.

This is a country that(much like a lot of us) had money troubles before this disastor struck, and they are now looking at a bill of over a Billion pounds to get things anywhere near to what they once were.
We also can't forget how generous Japan have been to other countries in times of need, as this article from 2005 shows, they were very helpful and generous to America during the destructive Hurricane Katrina.
[http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2005/September/20050915165123ajesrom9.768313e-02.html#ixzz1GcNyqVdM]
They provided support as companies, governments and indivuduals. Private donations alone were around $1.5 million.

You can donate here - http://www.redcross.org.uk/Donate-Now/Make-a-single-donation/Japan-Tsunami-Appeal

Or by calling  08450 53 53 53

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