We’ve been wanting to help the victims in Japan, but didn’t know what to do.
As I was updating my blog earlier today, I found a widget to post here on my sidebar from SocialVibe. If you click it, there are easy, fast & FREE ways you can participate by simply taking a corporate poll and the corporation will contribute. So, in a small way, maybe it will help do some good. Spread the word by forwarding this link.
As you know if you’ve been following our blog, we got home from our trip last Thursday; the same day the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan. It’s been a whirlwind since. We didn’t go to Japan on this trip, but we were in the region (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand & Hong Kong). When we got home, that night I went to bed at 5p.m. and Jim went to bed around 8p.m. we were so tired from travel and catching up to the new time zone. So when the earthquake struck, we had no idea, we were sleeping soundly.
Friday morning, we woke up at 4a.m., my family had been trying to reach us advising us to wake up and tune in to news re: possible tsunami here on the U.S. West Coast. When they first called us, we thought they thought we were still abroad and were warning of a tsunami there. Foggy-headed, we turned on the news and saw what was going on. We couldn’t believe it. Of course we kept an eye on the news and waited to see what would happen with Hawaii, as that would be a pre-cursor to how we would be affected along our coast. But the devastation in Japan was unbelievable, and we were both grateful to be home safe and sound after a long, nice vacation yet also feeling guilty that we are home safe and sound with walls around us while people were suffering so much.
All this past week and a half, amidst catching up with work and trying to get caught up in our time zone and watching news of Japan’s tragedy we’ve been wanting to do something to help. But what?! It seems so overwhelming and what do you do? So hopefully adding the little widget we will promote enough to make a difference.
God Bless Japan, Asia, and all the world.
Gone to Asia! 