Posted by: rivettingkatetaylor | March 9, 2011

A failure of community for minority (via Homepaddock)

How true is this blog from homepaddock. We need to know our neighbours, help our neighbours, understand the needs of our neighbours and make our neighbours part of our lives – all the time, not just after a massive natural disaster.

Farmy Army volunteers have found elderly people stuck in shocking conditions: John Hartnell of Federated Farmers says there are homes with up to a foot of silt inside, but the elderly occupants are too afraid to leave and seek help. "There are people really struggling, they don't have enough food, water's a problem and there's cases where people have been too scared to come out of their properties and it's taken a degree of coaxing to get them to … Read More

via Homepaddock

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