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China Earthquake's Astounding Numbers: How You Can Donate

By Dan Harris and Steve Dickinson

Just read a post about a Wen Jiabao interview on the Time China blog and something really hit me from that post: "sixteen million buildings destroyed." Some people can understand the Sichuan earthquake devastation through personal stories, but I am at heart a numbers guy and that number hit me right in the heart. It is not the number of destroyed buildings itself that move me; hearing that number allows me to vividly understand the human impact of such massive (and now quantified) physical devastation. The need is obviously massive and unremitting. Here is a post with links on how to donate to earthquake relief and also to Myanmar.

Full post as published by China Law Blog on May 28, 2008 (boomark / email).