14/365...sad, for Haiti

Watching the news a bit.  And feeling so very sad.
I talked with my class today about the earthquake and we now have plans to do a popcorn fundraiser in support of the Red Cross on Tuesday.  It is hard for me to wrap my mind around the fact that the average Haitian family has an annual income of 425 bucks.  One popcorn day in my low/modest income neighbourhood school can easily make that much profit.  2 hours work for 20 6 year olds and one teacher.  The inequalities of the world obvious to even the 6 year olds.

D and M, two of my littles, head out for recess after watching a few clips of structural damage in Haiti and following a discussion about fundraising and where that money might go...

15 minutes later D comes in and announces that she has made some decisions that will help the kids in Haiti...
first of all we need to make the popcorn 3 dollars...so it can be spent on more tents and lots of water
Second... Why are we sending stuff to Haiti in planes?  We should send empty planes and bring the families back to Canada. 

Oh I wish it was that easy. 

G wonders what we spend all of the other popcorn money on all year...good question

D assures the class that God is real and the Haitians are sitting in the street praying for a miracle and we are part of  the miracle so we need to make posters so we sell more popcorn

I confess...no pictures tonight.  I took some but frankly the dim lighting, truck pajamas, crap it's dark at 6pm pictures are simply not thrilling me today.  Blogger is being difficult and I'm getting [failed] every time I try to upload an archived photo...so I give up.