R.I.P. Zilda Arns

Added on January 13th, 2010 by atkinson | Report Post
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Zilda Arns was killed by the Haiti earthquake of 12 January 2010 in Port-au-Prince, where she was carrying humanitarian activities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilda_Arns

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HoChunk (#5604)

15 years ago

@... first glance I read “RIPPED Zelda Arms”

luigibrasile (#8556)

15 years ago

At least 11 Brazilian soldiers died in the Haitian quake, all of them serving in the United Nations peace mission to Haiti: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Stabilization_Mission_in_Haiti

Maxwell Edison (#12089)

Reply to luigibrasile

15 years ago

Holy crap, that’s a lot of people. How many zeroes in a brazillian?

Messatsunokami (#11637)

15 years ago

Very sad indeed. Gonna get up early and go buy food to donate

dorix (#657)

15 years ago

Better to donate money, as food (and clothings, supplies, etc) need to be shipped, and that costs the relief organizations a lot of money. They prefer to purchase what they need there. It’s better for the local economy anyways.

caeslus (#3574)

Reply to dorix

15 years ago

Money helps but they’re still buying much of the food and supplies locally and shipping it down there. A relief organization isn’t going to run into all the Port-au-Prince Shops that are still standing, buy everything, and leave nothing for the habitants?

I’m not condoning the donation of money to them either, it paves the way for the goods to get there.

I wasn’t even aware there was a fault line there. Earthquakes are real bad news.