China was badly hit by an earthquake last Monday. The earthquake which measured 7.9 in a Richter scale has its epicenter in Mianyang city causing lots of damage in property. Mianyang has death counts of 3000 but 18000 were buried alive and were not yet been retrieve as of this moment due to its heavy rains keep pouring down. The death toll numbered to 12000 people. In Sichuan city farms ,buildings and roads were also destroyed.
The UN send 40000 troops to the place for rescue operation. But due to the bad weather and heavy rain rescue is not easy. According to CNN death might rise up because the temperature goes down to 20 degree celcius. In Mianyang street lamps were turn on but lights on the buildings who was not collapsed are still off. Street lights were on to lessen the fright of the survivors.
Chinese governments says, they welcome aid in form of money and supplies but they cannot entertain personnel aid.This quake is the deadliest in thirty years. The last quake that hits the country was in 1933 and its death toll were 8000 and it was a 7.5 magnitude earthquake.
My time piece read as 3;00 in the afternoon, time for me to buy snacks for my kids. Then I command them to buy bread as well as soft drinks.Everybody are enjoying his portion. The soft drinks that the children buy is ice cold, that quenches our thirst. I clean our mess and throw the garbage in the plastic bag.But I kept the the bottle cap of the soft drinks.
My daughter then asked me why then I told her that ;this might be a help to anybody in the future. My daughter did not understand me. So I started to narrate to them what is the bottle cap that I have to keep them. Week ago I watched television on the channel feed by cable. It was about an Indonesian inventor.
He collected aluminum tin cans of any drinks,the top caps of battery and any aluminum scrap of any sizes. Mostly this things are recycled, made into a new cooking utensils such as, baking dishes ,drinking cups, kettle as well as basin and more. But this gifted inventor don’t recycled these aluminum scrap as of the others. He made them into something that gives hope to those who have problem worst than any material needs.
A man made the scrap aluminum into an artificial legs. An invention that makes anybody who was at birth has one leg or no legs at all. Or anybody who losses it after an accident. Or whose leg was amputated because of diabetes. Whichever of the three, is the reason this individual has the problem of walking . This intelligent man gifted by God, make a difference in their lives. He made this meaningless garbage into a meaningful ray of hope to those who suffered so much in their fate. That is why the next time you will see aluminum it maybe a cap or cans of your soft drinks think, that this scrap will become a leg or a pair of legs for those who doesn’t have. My daughter say, ah!I see.