Burma death toll jumps to 78,000
The news from both Burma and China keeps getting worse and worse. The latest article on the BBC website says that the death toll has reached 78,000. Not only that, the number of people still missing is close to 56,000.
In China too, news is coming out that up to FIVE MILLION people are now homeless as a result of the earthquake there. Five million. I can’t even imagine what that looks like. If that was in the UK that would be 1 in every 12 people.
These two tragedies have really got me thinking about how Mosaic - the movement I serve with here in Sheffield - can become something that really gets our hands dirty in terms of doing what we can to make a difference in these situations and others like it.
I don’t want us to be a passive group of people who expect others to do something. Even though we are just a small group of people, we can make a difference.
One of our strap lines is ‘creating a world that works for everyone’. Surely it is in situations like this that we need to rise up and make the strap line a reality?
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