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Less than a week after we collected up our change to send to the Haiti relief effort, a massive earthquake struck Chile, once again causing destruction, death and despair.
Although many buildings in Chile have been built to withstand the effects of earthquakes, most older buildings did not fare so well and even some of the newer ones found it difficult to withstand the effects of such a huge quake.
Again, my family sat down together to scratch our heads and ponder what we could possibly do.
That’s when the idea of ‘Change …
Ideas, Journal »
Do we have any spare change?
The first way we came up with to be able to help others when it seemed we had nothing to give was to give our ‘spare’ change.
Debbie suggested this idea to the family on the morning of February 21st 2010 and the idea was simple.
There were coins laying in drawers, piggy banks, play wallets and forgotten pots and holders all over our house – as there probably are in most houses around the world.
These coins, this ‘spare change’ was not being used, it wasn’t counted …
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On January 12th 2010, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale hit the nation of Haiti decimating towns and causing immense damage to the capital city, Port-Au-Prince.
A month later, it was reported that an estimated three million people were affected by the quake; with the Haitian Government reporting that up to 230,000 people had been killed, an estimated 300,000 injured, and around 1,000,000 homeless. Estimates were that 250,000 residences and 30,000 commercial buildings had collapsed or been severely damaged.
The scale of the disaster was incredible and was compounded by the fact that this small …
