May 15 2008

Images of destruction and despair – the Sichuan earthquake, May 12, 2008

Published by Jason Welker at 2:56 pm under

2008 Sichuan Earthquake – Wikipedia

The following slideshow was sent to my colleague Brian Compton (who forwarded it to me) from his contact at Habitat for Humanity, China. The pictures were all taken in the last 72 hours since the magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck China’s Sichuan province on Monday afternoon this week.

This collection of images tells the story of suffering and despair experienced by the victims of this natural disaster.

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About the author:  Jason Welker is a teacher at Zurich International School in Switzerland, where he teaches Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Economics. In addition to maintaining numerous online resources for economics student and educators, Jason developed the online version of the IB Economics course for Virtual High School and is currently authoring a textbook for IB Economics students for Pearson Baccalaureate which will be available in Spring of 2011. His economics student wiki won the 2007 "Best Educational Wiki" award from the "EduBlog Awards".

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2 Responses to “Images of destruction and despair – the Sichuan earthquake, May 12, 2008”

  1. # Ramonon 27 May 2008 at 8:33 am

    Ohhh, my heart is completely torn at the sight of these images
    of the destruction in China. I live so far away from this noble
    people that I can only pray to the Almighty that they can
    someday overcome their tremendous grief and that they can
    redo their lives the best they can.

  2. # samiraon 04 Aug 2008 at 6:23 pm

    i am deeply sadden by the destruction but compelty furious with the chinese government for hiding the figures and not being truly honest to the rest of the world. it is embrassing at the poor construction that has been used for building schools and public places. it is absolutley shocking and my heart goes ot to all the chinses people for their dead and injured

    I HEART YOU

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