So, have YOU donated to the Japanese relief effort yet?

[Joelcool7]

Lostplanet22 said:

kowenicki said:

Excellent to see real practical help coming in from the UK, US, Aus, NZ and the Swiss, expert search and rescue, technical expertise etc.  They have already sent rescue teams and experts.  These countries are always the first to offer real useful help.

I really cant undertsand why people above are trying to downplay financial help.. yes it isnt as relevant when you are talking about the 3rd biggest economy on the planet... but there will be a need at a social level on the ground for financial aid.

Because it is shocking...Every month in a country like Congo atleast 40-50.000 people die... Sure plenty of killing but also plenty of being sick, not having food, not having water, children soldiers who become a soldier to atleast have food every day.... The last ten years the number of casualties is between 6-8 million..Atleast 50% could have been saved if their was enough funds for the organizations over their..

Where is Darth's post on my wall about donating for Congo?

To make it even worse last week Donkey kong avater dude made a thread asking who donates money,  less than then people said they donate money  (that is when I last read it).

Now Holy Japan has an earthquake  and their will be probably maximum 10.000 casualties..The same amount of casualties that Congo has every week for more than 10 years everyone starts donating for me people are just saying;..

A japanase persons life >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>  African persons life..

You mean me? I created a thread about sponsoring children in third world countries, I just started sponsoring and was seeing if others were doing so. Is that the thread your talking about? and your right it didn't appear that many VGChartz members were sponsoring I expected at least a few.

Now when I have money I do donate to causes around the globe. At the moment I am unemployed sponsoring a kid and deploying on a missions trip to help people in the slums of Thailand. That costs alot of money. But I will get around to donating for Japan as I did Haiti and hopefully I can go with a humanitarian team ASAP.

Now I don't think the majority of the users here are saying Japanese people are more important than africans. Do you know how many billions get donated to Africa? I don't however I do know that my church sends teams to Africa every year and donates a ton to Ethiopia , Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Ghana and South Africa those are just the countries I know my church supports.

The idea that people are only supporting Japan is ludacris. Why is it gaining so much more attention on VGChartz then other countries do? Its sorta obvious you'd have to be blind not to put the two together. Japan is the home of gaming so to speak. Nintendo , Sony , Sega , Square , Capcom and so fourth are all in Japan. Most of our products come from Japan.

So no shit Japan is going to get more attention on a video game forum.

Also their were similiar threads with Haiti and if I recall correctly people created threads to give verbal support to the victims in ChristChurch where Rath lives.

Fact of the matter is VGChartz users do donate to other causes, many probably donate and don't talk about it. While in cases like Haiti people on VGChartz donated.

Also to talk directly about the Congo. Giving aid in the Congo and other unstable African countries is very difficult. Rebels and even Government forces sieze aid and horde it to themselves. These child soldiers grab what they can and prevent the aid from reaching the people. Aid workers often get killed, kidnapped or persecuted.The only way for the Congo and places like Somalia to get aid is through the United Nation's but even the UN can't deliver aid half the time because their troops are peace keepers and when Al-Shabab or rebels from the Congo want that aid they cease it.

So sending aid to unstable countries, your probably not going to help the people who need the help. Your food, tents and water purification systems will be used by the warring parties to feed and clothe their armies. Then using those armies they persecute their people.

Africa is a very hard place to help due to instability but as I said above that doesn't stop many from trying. Their are people right now in Africa doing their best to help the populations.