Welcome to my first blog entry. This really is my first entry – I’ve never done anything like this before.
Being my first entry I wish I called write about something happy and exciting but my thoughts are not happy and excited. My thoughts are not here in Hong Kong but in Sichuan and with the many, many people there who are suffering. I cannot begin to imagine what the people there are going through. To have their world literally collapsed around them. Everything they have known has gone and likely gone forever. Things will never be the same for the survivors.
Just as I can’t fully understand what they are going through I am at a loss to know what I can do. I’ve done what I can. I’ve donated money to help. We as a company have donated and I as an individual have also donated. I hope you will do so as well.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of the terrible earthquake in Sichuan. The army is mobilized and helping. The Chinese government is helping. Governments abroad are helping. NGO’s are active and helping. The Chinese citizens are helping. All those that are able – help. The help is needed. Help as you can.
I have other things I want to talk about. Things like the food labeling legislation, our products and things we as a company have been doing. But right now, with the suffering and anguish happening in Sichuan – well I don’t have the heart to write about those things today. I’ll save that for another day.
With a heavy heart,
Simeon
17th May 2008