May 15 2008
Images of destruction and despair – the Sichuan earthquake, May 12, 2008
Published by Jason Welker at 2:56 pm under China
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.
About the author: Jason Welker teaches International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement Economics at Zurich International School in Switzerland. In addition to publishing various online resources for economics students and teachers, Jason developed the online version of the Economics course for the IB and is has authored two Economics textbooks: Pearson Baccalaureate’s Economics for the IB Diploma and REA’s AP Macroeconomics Crash Course.
Jason is a native of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and is a passionate adventurer, who considers himself a skier / mountain biker who teaches Economics in his free time. He and his wife keep a ski chalet in the mountains of Northern Idaho, which now that they live in the Swiss Alps gets far too little use. Read more posts by this authorRelated posts:
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.
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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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