australia is on fire and it is terrifying. since june 2019 there have been fires burning in our country without a break. there are dozens of huge bushfires burning in the eastern states and millions of hectares of bushland and farmland have been burned. homes have been destroyed, people have died and millions of animals have died and lost their homes. these numbers are just unbelievable and are growing by the day as there just seems to be no way to stop them. they are so big and spread out that even with all the efforts they keep burning.
then, last week the smoke made it to new zealand 2000kms away, turning their skies yellow and the rest of the world finally started to realise the size of what we are dealing with! it is just unfathomable that it is so huge, but they are still going.
an australian comedian celeste barber made a fundraising page via facebook on january 3rd hoping to raise $30000 towards relief efforts , but by earlier this evening it was almost at $30 million dollars, from donors worldwide. people everywhere are trying to help.
we have been praying that there will be an end to this and will continue to do, as they continue to burn, as this is so scary - there just seems to be no end in sight!
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(update - total burned was 18.6 million hectares, 2779 homes destroyed and 34 lives lost - with an estimated 500 million animals killed and the smoke ended up reaching south america! andddd the fundraiser wrapped with $51.3 million dollars!)
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