On 31 Dec 2004 19:25:55 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:

Has anyone seen anything about the need to adopt any of the children
made parentless or familyless by the tsunami? With all the dead, there
have to be lots of kids who will need a home.


Send money.

Very few infants would have survived conditions that killed both parents.
Pulling older kids out of their cultural environment is a questionable practice
at best. It may be better to create and fund a support structure for the older
kids within their home countries, rather than subject them to the additional
emotional and psychological trauma of losing contact with friends, locale,
lanuguage, customs, and culture. As heartfelt and humane a gesture as adoption
might be, not everybody wants to be, nor should become
Western.


Super idea. Catholic Relief Services in the US is receiving money at
the rate of over $100,000 per hour (per an official from CRS on
yesterday's news). Here is their site:

http://www.kintera.org/htmlcontent.asp?cid=41794

Of course, some folks are very anti-religious organizations, which is
a shame. Here is another case where they are doing some real good.

John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes