"Nepal has really taught me a lot about privilege and just how fortunate we are to be born in a first world country where if a disaster happens, we're not calling in other countries to assist us," said Danielle Banks. (US KHOU.com)
Danielle banks is a 22year old recent graduate of Texas A&M University. She had gone volunteering in Tibet with organisations taking care of trafficked persons only to face the harrowing prospects of death in the recent earthquake. The above statement was reportedly made by her on her return, after being rescued, to the waiting arms of her family in Dallas.
When will Nigeria man up and really take care of its own when disaster strikes without "calling in other countries to assist us"?
That is one of the markers of a developed nation which we stridently shout that we aspire to be. Are we even working on the project?
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