Monday, September 17, 2007

One of the most difficult things about getting people involved in human relief is getting them to see that what is happening is affecting real people, so make places like Darfur and Rwanda about the faces and not about the facts. Newspapers have a duty to their readers to be informative and unbiased but there are other venues with which we are able to take full advantage while trying to advocate particular causes that allow a more personal approach and yet often provide us with the same detatched "updates" as the local newspapers. Why not utilize magazine space, and websites to provide us with personal anecdotes from regions currently frought with terror in order to show, rather than tell, us why it is that our help is so desperately needed. Websites like the Holocaust museum show us that these were actually people who deserve our time and energy and who can tell us more than any statistic.

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