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“One of the remarkable consequences of blogging is that people of like minds can join together to raise the global consciousness about a particular issue”: Jamaican Geoffrey Philp uses his blogging powers to draw attention to the poverty in Haiti.
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Hi, Janine. There is a similar post in my blog. About poverty and the insuficient internacional responde for food crisis in Haiti.