Support Haiti Relief
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I’m not a person to preach. It’s not my style, really, and I don’t like doing it. However, the images filling up my television screen the past few days demand action. The devastation in Haiti is unfathomable. In so many ways, the scenes from Port-au-Prince remind me of other places that all of our Celtophilia family have visited in Jamaica. The faces remind me vividly of the people I met there, and for a short time, ministered to and cared for deeply. The poverty and desperation, the homes built from scrap plywood and salvaged tin, all take me bodily and hurl me back in time. When I see the suffering of these people who have lost what meager belongings they had, I feel like I know them.
It is easy to feel helpless. Like so many people, we struggle to pay our bills. We don’t have the fortune of celebrities, major corporations, or internet millionaires on our side. Despite this, I feel the weight of a moral responsibility to make an effort, however small, to help these people. I don’t mind saying, I feel that every person in the world who doesn’t have to wonder if they’ll sleep in the street tonight, or where their next meal will come from should really feel this responsibility as well.
To this end, I have created several new designs to add to the Celtophilia store, to support the relief efforts in Haiti. There are t-shirts, coffee mugs, water bottles, stickers, buttons, and magnets. You can check out the new store items on the Support Haiti Relief Page. If you like them, please consider making a purchase. $3 from the price of each item sold will be donated to the Unicef US Fund, to support disaster relief. We will take no profit from these items. If you don’t like them, please, please find some way to help. Unicef is taking donations. The American Red Cross is taking donations. Every other charitable support organization in the world is taking donations. Give them a dollar, if that’s all you can part with, but do something.
Celtophilia Store Support Haiti Relief Page.
