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To learn of life-changing projects that a donation to UNICEF can help support, watch this short video about a project to bring clean water to one village in Nicaragua. The well has had an enormous impact on the health, daily lives and futures of the whole community. »→
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783 million people live without access to safe water, and around 2.5 billion people – lack access to improved sanitation.
But we can help, with UNICEF, to improve water supplies and sanitation in schools and communities and promoting safe hygiene practices for children around the world.
The impact of poor sanitation, water and hygiene can have serious effects you might not expect – especially for girls. Girls are often denied their right to education because their schools lack private and decent sanitation facilities. Or they drop out of school because they are forced to spend large parts of their day fetching water for their families.
Without clean and safe water and sanitation, combined with proper hygiene practices, children suffer.
Today we remember Scott Brayton, who died at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1996 during practice for the Indy 500.
On this date in 1973, Vietnam began releasing the remaining tortured, diseased American captives, including John McCain, James Stockdale, Bud Day, and Robinson Risner, from its dank, vermin-infested prisons in Hanoi.
A Los Angeles task force created by the Chamber of Commerce and the United Way of Greater Los Angeles has a plan, Home for Good, to end homelessness in L.A. within five years. It intends to build houses for 12,000 of 48,000 chronically unemployed persons and to provide food, maintenance, and other services — at a cost of $235 million per year.
The plan, based on the task force’s study of what other cities had done, was embraced by political and civic leaders.
Zev Yaroslavsky, of the County Board of Supervisors, said, “This is not rocket science. It’s been done in New York, it’s been done in Atlanta, and it’s been done in San Francisco.”
I didn’t know that New York, Atlanta, and San Francisco have no homeless residents.
Richard Bloom, the mayor of Santa Monica, said, “Do I think it can happen? Yes, because I’ve seen what happens in other cities, like New York City, Denver and Boston.”
Does that mean that New York, Denver and Boston have no homeless residents?
The Los Angeles City Controller, Wendy Greuel, said, “It’s easy to get up in the morning, go to work, drive home and never encounter someone who is homeless. I don’t think it’s seeped into the public’s consciousness that homelessness is a problem.”
Ten years ago I was running on the African coast to save my own life. If I had stayed there and had to use the ‘local’ help I would be absolutely dead; there was no antibiotics of anesthetics even in the medical clinic that tried to treat me (open scalp wounds). »→
.AmeriCorps has 75,000 Americans serving their communities in 1- or 2-year commitments, using their skills and ideals to aid others.
…As an AmeriCorps member, you can address community needs in education, the environment, public safety, social services, homeland security, and other areas.
We also serve in national nonprofit organizations like Habitat for Humanity, American Red Cross, Teach for America, and hundreds of smaller community organizations, secular and faith-based.
Whether your service makes a community safer, gives a child a second chance, alleviates poverty, or helps to protect our environment, you have the ability to find solutions and make a difference. Care to join AmeriCorps? . list of Florida programs
I visited campsites of homeless persons a mile-and-a-half from Panama City Rescue Mission. I made a few low-quality photos with my camera phone, without photographing the denizens (except my escort).
makeshift gate to the woods »→
“A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by prayers.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A hungry man is not a free man. – Adlai Stevenson
I hadn’t had a job since February 2008. I could arise most days whenever I desired. I had no boss, no time cards to stamp or punch, no work schedule, no commute …
Now I have worked two weeks in Panama City Rescue Mission as a ‘resource connector,’ helping homeless persons, including just-released prisoners, to seek employment, shelter, state vocation rehabilitation, Social Security benefits, Medicaid, SNAP grocery cards, military veteran medical-care enrollment, veteran disability compensation, etcetera.
Lord, hear our prayers for women and men, boys and girls who are homeless, for those sleeping under bridges, on benches, in alleys, in bus stations and under trees.
Lord, inspire us to help our brethren who suffer nights of fitful sleep in places unsecure, who wander in the day, looking for work and hoping for housing.
Lord, help us to mend families that are split because rent could not be paid on time and relatives could not take in everyone. »→
The first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. — Norman Borlaug
…….At Free Rice.com, I reached level 50 in English vocabulary, the default quiz, before losing interest. I encourage you to visit FreeRice.com and do one of the quizzes to donate rice to UN’s World Food Program. Quizzes for adults and kids are:
Famous Paintings
Chemical Symbols (Basic) & Chemical Symbols (Full List)
English Grammar & English Vocabulary
Identify Countries on the Map & World Capitals
languages: Francais, Deutsch, Italiano, & Espanol
Basic Math (Pre-Algebra) & Multiplication Table
Half of the world’s children, 1 billion, live in poverty. 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health services.
29,000 children per day die before age 5 years.
The Philippines government reports that 240 persons are known to have died in severe flooding caused by Tropical Storm Ketsana.
The country has appealed for foreign aid to deal with the disaster which has displaced more than 450,000 persons, including 375,000 who are in makeshift shelters. »→
A recent World Health Organization study resulted in a report that 1.5 million Filipinos under age five suffer from diarrhea at any time due to lack of access to clean water, basic sanitation facilities and poor hygiene practices. »→
I found FreeRice.com, a website committed to ending hunger. Advertising sponsors pay the UN World Food Program for our participation in an online vocabulary game. For each word shown in turn, click on one of the four given possible definitions or synonyms. Every correct answer gains 20 grains of rice for the poor, donated by the sponsors. »→
