It’s easy to get caught up doing our own postgraduate “thing”. The drive for success, for career, for love, for pleasure and for personal security is something we all share but sometimes, events occur that are so sobering that we have to lay aside our own agendas to make the biggest difference we can.
On January 12, 2010, Haiti experienced hell on earth. A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast and the ensuing destruction is so tragic that the quake has been called the worst in the area in the last 200 years. It directly affected the densely populated Haitian capital Port-au-Prince (about 1.8 million people) and early estimates have said that 50,000 people have died but reality may prove to be much worse.
We here at The Postgrad value your support. Those of you who have helped us by reading faithfully and clicking on our sponsored links from time to time have helped us acquire the resources we need to keep the site up and running. You guys have done a lot – more than enough to get the job done. We were going to use the surplus to give a little back by holding giveaways – ipods, itunes gift cards, whatever.
Now our plans seems so petty when placed in this context. So we’re going to pledge all of the money we’ve earned to help the Haitian earthquake relief efforts. It isn’t much but any little bit helps at this point. We hope you don’t mind. We’re proud to be able to help preserve human life and help rebuild a broken country. We sincerely hope you can join us in this effort. There’s no marketing gimmick here. Let’s do the humane thing.
The Big Picture – Earthquake in Haiti
Haiti Earthquake Relief – How You Can Help
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