The concept of solidarity is often meant as the spontaneous or organised sharing of what we possess, in terms of resources or money, with those who need it. It usually tends to be perceived as a support to improve the condition of life of the poor through coherent actions based on humane feelings.
Tsunami has even more clearly shown the importance of collective initiatives to face destruction and starvation. It will not be easy to find the right and quickest way to intervene as the list of the necessities is endless: first of all food, water, medicine and clothes are needed in order to survive, then housing, hospitals, education, work.
Thanks to the media our planet has become smaller and communities have reacted generously transforming our common world into "Worldland". The worst tragedy of the modern age should bring us back to old values when nothing, that could still be used, was thrown away. Everybody should understand the importance of saving in order to give.
No waste should take place until there is only one person that doesn't have enough food. People's learning, mainly through trial and error, is the story of mankind. Let's hope that this unbelievable event will produce some results.
In the meantime the solid evidence of a sound solidarity is in front of us witnessing its fundamental importance and showing thousands of innocent people that are being listened to and cared for with warm feelings and incessant strength.
