What About Now - Daughtry
September 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Thanks Dale Chumbly for bringing this to my attention. This is a great video!
Email From UNICEF
August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Take Action Today! Help the Children of Ethiopia.
Dear Racquel,
Famine is often hard to comprehend. Families live meal-to-meal—and tragically, children are the most vulnerable. Today, the global food crisis has made the risk of famine in places like Ethiopia all the more real.
The situation in Ethiopia is dire. More than 125,000 children require urgent emergency nutritional therapy, while an additional six million children are at risk of becoming malnourished and require preventative nutritional supplements.
Today is the perfect time to give. Western Union Foundation has pledged to match up to $25,000 in donations to help address this urgent food crisis.
Please help us raise $25,000 in 10 days for UNICEF’s relief work in Ethiopia.
Your donation will help to meet the immediate needs of children and women throughout the areas most affected by the food crisis. We need to act because malnutrition is entirely preventable. A child with severe acute malnutrition faces a serious risk of death but will recover within three to six weeks with proper treatment.
No child should die of malnutrition. No child should die of a preventable cause. In Ethiopia or anywhere else in the world.
Make a donation to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF today—double the power of your gift.
Sincerely,
Caryl M. Stern
President and CEO, U.S. Fund for UNICEF
Blog Action Day 2008
August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Just registering Mothers Fighting For Others to Blog Action Day 2008. Thanks for understanding.
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Women For Women On 60 Minutes
August 14, 2008 | 3 Comments
I just received this email a few minutes ago from Women for Women International. This is an AMAZING segment on 60 minutes. If you can’t watch it live, record it.
60 Minutes – re-airing “War Against Women”
Sunday, August 17
7:00pm ET
Dear Racquel,
CNN’s Anderson Cooper will be highlighting the plight of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the CBS news magazine, 60 Minutes, this Sunday.
This is a re-airing of the piece televised in January and included a visit to Women for Women International’s offices in the DR Congo. The program will be broadcast at 7:00 pm ET on Sunday, August 17. Please check your local listings for 60 Minutes air times.
In the piece, Anderson Cooper shared the struggles of all the women we serve in the DR Congo. Specifically, he met with Lucienne, a Women for Women International program participant.
Lucienne was held captive, tortured, abandoned by her family, and gave birth to the child of her rapist. Her story is bleak, but she is picking up the pieces of her life with the help of Women for Women International and her sponsor, Deborah. In the interview Lucienne told Anderson Cooper that she named her child Luck. “I named her Luck because I went through many hardships. I could have been killed in the forest, but I got my life back. I have hope.”
After the segment initially aired, many of you wrote to us to tell us how moved you were. We invite you to bring together your friends and family to share with them the work you support and to watch the 60 Minutes piece.
If you can’t watch together, please forward them this email and ask them to watch or record it.
Every day Women for Women International staff in the 8 countries where we work see women with a story like Lucienne’s — women standing in line waiting for their chance to reclaim their lives. They deserve the chance to change their lives and have their stories told. Your support makes that possible and we are eternally grateful.
In fact, at the end of the piece, you’ll see how Lucienne is speaking in front of other members of her Women for Women group. She is lit up with hope and enthusiasm…because she is reading a letter from her sponsor.
On behalf of the women we serve,
Trish Tobin
Women for Women International, Chief Marketing Officer
Foreclosures, Homeless Pets and One Remarkable Little Girl
July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
There are so many innocent victims of the US housing crisis. Celia’s story about a woman committing suicide (below) is one tragic example.
As a Realtor I not only read about it in the news everyday but I experience it first hand: the text in the listings: “Pre-foreclosure, bring all offers”, the anxious sellers waiting for me to show up with my potential buyers, the empty homes in complete disarray as if someone just walked out one day not wanting to turn around and see what they were leaving behind. These are truly hard times in our country.
Once-in-a-while, during such tragedy emerges some brilliant examples of the best of humanity. But, one rarely thinks of a 10-year-old girl as one capable of making such a difference to so many innocent victims…the pets of foreclosure. There are a growing number of pets of all kinds becoming homeless due to the loss of a home to foreclosure. I Googled “Homeless Animals Due to Foreclosure” and came up with pages upon pages of links and articles about the number of homeless animals as a direct result of foreclosures and the efforts throughout our country to take care of these treasured pets and family members necessarily left behind.
But one particular story touched me. A ten-year-old girl from Oregon named Mimi came up with the idea all by herself of creating a website: FreeKibble.com where people can play a game she created called the Bow Wow Trivia Game. Each question answered results in the donation of 20 pieces of kibble. The more people play Bow Wow, the more kibble will be donated. On May 14th, 2008 Mimi delivered her first round of free kibble, 240lbs, to the Humane Society of Central Oregon. Her next delivery was for 500lbs, enough to feed 1,000 dogs for one day! Sponsors such as Zootoo.com pay for the kibble. Mimi has even added a second game for cats: Free KibbleKats.com.
Several months ago I wrote two articles: Raising Children to Make a Difference in the World and Children can help too. There is something about the selflessness of a young child that blows me away. If Mimi can make such a difference, imagine what we can do if we set our mind to it!
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