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Feeling Helpless and Powerless to help Tsunami Victims

Category: Creative Manifesting — Anisa @

Tsunami Prayer for relief and understanding:

“If this was a wake up call, I ask the Universe to help us to listen, hear, understand and prepare to unite for a better world now. I ask for the strength, power, guidance and insight to respond with love and expediency now. I ask for the resolve to pray for and expect healing for everyone touched by this disaster now. I ask for and accept that the miracles that are needed to heal our world occur immediately. I am grateful to now know that light reigns supreme in our lives and love heals the wounds of our friends in need. I send forth a request and an expectancy that the water, food, means, and love required to support our fellow souls be delivered under grace and that this delivery happen immediately and from a place of love. Powerful healers, leaders, families, organizations and individuals now embrace and step up to the call for a united world where peace, love, cooperation and understanding are the order of the day. I am grateful that the awareness, understanding and firm resolve required to unite our hearts and souls as a world community, are now at hand. I ask for the guidance and inspiration to help wherever I can and that this call be easily recognized accepted. I give thanks for the Divine Order of life, and for the peace and rainbows that inevitably will arise from this disaster. I send forth love and unconditional acceptance to all those in pain and ask Spirit to be with them, sending them love, food, health, healing, and support now.”

There isn’t anything I can write, that would adequately express the overwhelming sense of helplessness and powerlessness that I have felt about my inability to help our friends that were hit by the Tsunami. It’s been so painful to watch from thousands of miles away and of course, it even feels self-centered to talk about ‘my pain’. Attempting to work and continue with life when so many have had their lives ripped apart, feels unimportant and insignificant. How dare I worry about my problems when desperate souls don’t have drinking water, their mothers, their fathers, their babies any longer.

However, small actions that I can take now, do and will make a difference. Even if my small donations help only one child, or one family, then I’ve done something. Additionally, my prayers do make a difference. My thoughts towards planetary healing contribute to the positive tide that we so desperately need now more than ever.

The following email from United for Peace and Justice outlines additional and not so mainstream ways that we can help. I hope you’ll find it helpful.

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ACTION ALERT * UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE http://www.unitedforpeace.org | 212-868-5545 ===========================================
IN THE WAKE OF THE TSUNAMI:
** Demand increased U.S. aid
** Demand immediate debt cancellation
** Donate to grassroots relief efforts (details below) ===========================================

The damage wrought by the December 26 tsunami is so epic and heartbreaking in its scope that words can hardly convey the sense of loss and grief we feel. United for Peace and Justice joins with people all around the world in mourning the devastation, and in seeking ways to help the survivors.

We do so with an acute awareness of the role that global inequality and widespread poverty plays in intensifying “natural” disasters, and of the repressive conditions that defined ordinary life for many in the region – particularly in the hardest hit area, the Indonesian province of Aceh — even before the tsunami hit. We are recommending several action steps intended not just to respond to this immediate crisis but to promote lasting social justice in the region.

INCREASE U.S. AID. Contact your Congressional representatives to demand that the U.S. government dramatically increase its aid to the affected countries. After considerable pressure, the Bush Administration has upped its pledge of support to $350 million – but that figure is still insultingly small, less than the amount that is wasted every two days on the disastrous and unnecessary war in Iraq. Find contact information for your representatives at http://www.house.gov/ and http://www.senate.gov/

CANCEL THE DEBT. Like much of the Global South, the countries most affected by the tsunami have been crippled for years by staggering debt. Indonesia alone pays more than $7 billion each year in debt service to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank – a figure that dwarfs the total aid pledged so far to the entire region. UFPJ strongly supports the call by Jubilee South (http://www.jubileesouth.org) and groups all around the world in calling for the unconditional cancellation of all the debt owed by countries hit by the tsunami. Support this demand by joining Jubilee USA Network in sending a letter to President Bush and Treasury Secretary Snow calling for immediate debt relief. Click here:
http://www.jubileeusa.org/jubilee.cgi?path=/take_action&page=tsunamiletter.html

SUPPORT GRASSROOTS RELIEF EFFORTS. Private giving is not a substitute for government aid or debt cancellation. That said, there are many grassroots nongovernmental organizations in the region that are not only doing key relief work but are also empowering local communities and providing a crucial counterweight to the often corrupt and brutal governments of the most affected countries. Below are several groups that we especially encourage you to support:

East Timor Action Network
http://www.etan.org/action/action2/23alert.htm
The East Timor Action Network is collecting contributions from people in the United States who want to give direct aid to local grassroots and humanitarian organizations in Aceh, the remote and war-torn Indonesian province that has been most devastated by the tsunami. Direct donations to grassroots organizations in Aceh circumvent the inevitable siphoning off of resources – both monetary and material – to the Indonesian government and military, which has a long and brutal record of human rights violations in Aceh. Big international NGOs will be obliged to work through the Indonesian government, while donations via the ETAN relief fund will go towards developing local capacity and will help sustain groups that have been doing important humanitarian and social justice work for years.

Via Campesina
http://www.viacampesina.org/art_english.php3?id_article=500
Via Campesina is global alliance of peasant, family farmer, farm worker, indigenous and landless peoples organizations, and other rural movements; they have numerous active member organizations in the region affected by the tsunami. The relief philosophy of Via Campesina is that local communities – particularly, in this case, fisherfolk and peasant organizations — should participate actively and be the key actors in the reconstruction process. By donating to Via Campesina’s relief fundd, you can help those in need at this time in ways that help build self-sufficiency, grassroots organization, and people’s power for the future.

American Friends Service Committee
http://www.afsc.org/give/asia-relief.htm
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a member group of United for Peace and Justice, is mounting an important relief effort in hard-hit Aceh. AFSC has had a presence and contacts in Indonesia for more than 35 years, through its peace-building efforts and international conferences and seminars, and is working to offer pragmatic, immediate help that builds longer-term recovery so that communities can rebuild long after the media attention and compassionate responses for aid have diminished. AFSC’s longstanding expertise in relief work, peace-building, and grassroots empowerment make it especially well-suited to provide effective support to communities in Aceh.

MADRE
http://www.madre.org/programs/appeal/tsunami.html
The human rights group MADRE, which is a member group of United for Peace and Justice, has partnered with a Sri Lankan women’s organization, INFORM, to help establish and equip emergency health centers in areas affected by the tsunami. Through these centers, survivors will receive the emergency medical attention and clean drinking water they so desperately require and displaced women and families will receive crucial trauma counseling, which will help them cope with the deaths of their children and other loved ones, gradually heal from their trauma, and begin to rebuild.

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ACTION ALERT * UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE http://www.unitedforpeace.org | 212-868-5545 To subscribe, visit http://www.unitedforpeace.org/email
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