Change the world

Should I monetize this page? If I do I promise to donate half of what I earn to one of the organizations found on this blog. Thoughts tell me what you think I will decide by Halloween...all souls day.

Just sharing, I set my new theme on Google to a charity called water, they are offering new themes for your homepage and some of them are charities , this particular one is to get clean drinking water into as many mouths as possible. So hey change your home page, change the world. I may be broke but I will keep trying to spread the word.
We will be donating lots of clothes this week to The Salvation Army, we have three kids and clothes that they have all out grown.
If anyone knows of a charity that can use some very young ,infant and young toddler books my kids will be clearing out their caches this week let me know. We are in the bay area of California so keep that in mind.
and do whatever you can it is free to recycle.

Well it has been a busy summer, school is back in session now and with that Ralph, our super provider will be able to help us finance our donations again. I just wanted to say something so that no one thought the project was dead, it's not we were just broke, can't save the world if you can't save yourself. We will start again next week and I will tell ya what we did this month to do our bit, tell us what you did we do want to know, we need each other to make things work.
Peace,
Jerri

Please check out The Girl Effect... it is in the links.

I hope someone responds, I hope anybody cares. I feel particularly vulnerable.

We have been busy, but I know I have to share that, we changed our donkey escort to solar ovens and will be choosing for April soon we will probably do May at the same time. I hope you can get to the links the sites are great. I also need to add the Girl Effect, google it until I get it linked hopefully this weekend.... no promises but I am trying, that's all I ask can we all just try.

...bought a very nice shirt from Africa Hope Apparel . Check out their site really easy to use and seem like good folks.

The links to your left were active as of this posting and more will come as time goes by. Please feel free to leave me a link to check out or go and sign up and donate or start a project of your own. This month we are donating our $40 to the Genocide Intervention Networks STANDfast project which goes to aid women in Darfur in collecting firewood and to people in Burma to provide a communications system to those who are in danger of ethnically focused attacks.
We will keep you up to date as to what we are doing and I hope you keep us up to date as to what you are doing together we can make a difference.

This started stated as an assignment from an instructor at Chico State University. She challenged us as part of our midterm assignment to not only learn facts about ethnic struggles,human trafficking,poverty,and other points of conflict for our fellow human beings . She challenged us to do something about them. This web site is going to be a part of my action plan and call to action.

I found it to be a very complex assignment in that it would be a very easy thing to simply write a check for a charity and call it a day. I do not in any way see that as a bad option, for some that is all we can do and it is better than not doing anything at all. For me it didn't feel like enough. So What my goal here is is to call myself to action every month. I have three children and I really want to set a good example for them as citizens of the world. So we as a family every month are going to make a donation to a charity. I am going to share with all of those interested in following our journey which charities we have chosen as a family and why.

I firmly beleive in the notion of thinking globally and acting locally so our contributions will not always be of the international variety. I hope to include endeavours such as our forray into urban farming inspired by anothe class,we will include photos. I beleive that so many tragedies happen due to poverty and ignorance. Yet I do not believe that I am in any position to tell anyone how they should live their lives. I can only offer my thoughts and my support. I don't think we as one little family can change the world all by ourselves , but I do beleive that if everyone that is able to take even a small step in a positive direction of acknowledging our common humanity that in the long run we will all become a better, wiser,more tolerant planet.

I am going to include links to sites , blogs and news feeds, many of these links will have disturbing content . They are not included for shock value they are intended to increase awareness.There are so many distressing issues in the world today the best thing that anyof us can do is to learn as much as we can, and know that no question is a stupid question, and that we are only ignorant if we choose to be. I know that I am far from an expert but I know that simply asking what can I do is no longer enough for me I have to do something.

----Jerri B