# Haiti Relief **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 15, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/haiti-relief/249763 "2010-01-15T13:05:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 29
**Author:** ![Ilya](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ilya/32/6404_2.png) [@Ilya](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ilya)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/haiti-relief/249763/29 "2010-01-15T14:26:26Z")
> [@Damn Dominos](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/damn-dominos/28375/14): > > I am with usmc2801 100%… > > We are already sending 100 million dollars of money we don’t have to help another country out. If it happened to us, how many countries would step up and do that for us? I understand it sucks, and people’s lives are at stake, but there are people like that in our own country, let’s take care of them first > **[International response to Hurricane Katrina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina)** > > Many countries and international organizations offered the United States relief aid in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. > > According to the European Commission, six days after the disaster, on September 4, 2005, the United States officially asked the European Union for emergency help, asking for blankets, emergency medical kits, water and 500,000 food rations for victims. Help proposed by EU member states was coordinated through their crisis center. The British presidency of the EU f... Hurricane Katrina donations from other countries. People…it’s called being there for your fellow mankind in their time of trouble. Whether it’s $0.01 or $100,000,000,000,000.00 it doesn’t matter. You’re still helping. The money amount you can donate is so minuscule that you can donate to Haiti AND your average American bum. Although, I generally am FAR LESS sympathetic to the average American bum because you know what? You live in the F’in states. You had your chance at a good education, etc. etc. Regardless, I still donate regularly to the Red Cross, Salvation Army, etc. Many of these people don’t even know what a book is. Or what a clean hot bath feels. Or what tooth paste is. They don’t have the BASICS. A homeless person in America could technically walk into a store, wash up, and be clean ALL DAY. And don’t give me any BS. I lived in Ukraine. I was there when I was 6, so I know how hard it can be. And I was just there in August. Guess what? NO HOT WATER unless you have your own heater (which costs $$$). STFU and donate. Or don’t. Either way, STFU. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/haiti-relief/249763)._