homeless?

my sister or i took this picture in brazil. do you think he is comfortable? no he cant be. you can see he is homeless and my heart breaks for this kid. he is probably in the jail system, dead, or high on something right now.

so i feel like the topic of this week is haiti. as we all know it got hint by some crazy thing...we call it an earthquake. but haiti is a really poor country and already suffered with homelessness and extremely bad poverty. now all the sudden that something terrible has happened to this country everyone wants to go online and check there bank statements or raise thousand of dollars to send over there. or see if they can take a short term trip over to haiti to help the people out. yes they did get hit hard...like really hard. and it's really sad that this happened. but they were really poor before this happened and you were never thinking about haiti a couple of days ago. you were thinking about hmmm i wonder what im going to eat for dinner tonight. should i go out or stay in? you were not thinking i wonder how the people in haiti are doing? i wonder if they have the same thoughts as me right now...eating. yes they probably do but its a completely different type of thinking. its mann how am i going to feed my family tonight? im not bashing the people that are giving money or giving there lives to these people. im just upset it takes something awful for people to recognize a country.

the country has a big heart for hurting people and we do a really good job at sending help right away. but what about five years later? are people still going to be thinking about haiti? mostly likely no they arent. just like new orleans. it was a big hype thing to go down there and help the american people that got hit by the hurricane. yes a lot of people helped them out and are still somewhat helping, but im sure there are areas that havent been touched and areas that are filled with 'squatters' and areas that are out of control nice.

i think about brazil everyday only because my parents have a school there for the poor. i would still think about brazil everyday even if they didnt have a school there just cause my family lives there. but if they decided that, we as a family, werent going to have any connections to brazil when they moved, i would probably careless about the poor and think about me and only me. and how would me helping with one family help me. and would i be able to get my name out there for helping the world. i could check something off the 'God checklist' and consider myself a good person. but im a softy for the hurting and poor. im a giver. if you ask me to help you with something or tell me you dont have any gas money and you have to go home to visit your sick mom or just to go hang out with a friend. i would most likely take you to the gas station and put gas in your car and give you 20 bucks. and would never expect something from you in return. so i guess if you read this blog this and youre a giver or a softy do something about your gift. give to haitian organization or google some type of organization that you really love and volunteer your time to it or give as much as possible. there is no limit on the amount you can give. from a dollar to a thousand dollars it all helps. its your gift.