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tili pamodzi all of us together Originally uploaded by stellel. Our School, Voluntown Elementary, is raising funds to buy a well for an orphan school called Chikumbuso in Zambia. These are some of the kids from Chikumbuso holding up the bracelets our kids made for them. Tili pamodzi means "all of us together" so the kids where chanting this when the picture was taken. Last night we had a

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A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy SoldierStarbucks is sponsoring a book tour for the author of this book, Ishmael Beah. He is a former child soldier from Sierra Leone.

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Did you know?Approximately two million children are enslaved in the commercial sex trade. Exploiting poverty, this form of slavery is woven into the local economy of many countries.Nearly 300,000 children are forced to serve in bloody armed conflicts around the world. "Kill or be killed" is what these children face on a daily basis.An estimated 250 million children work in exploitative labor

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John 21:15Originally uploaded by stellel. I entered this piece in an art show yesterday. My friend Nancy and I both brought pieces to this show. The piece is made from vintage silk tulle, embroidered with thrifted thread, a silk remnant (that was silk screened), a cigar box and vintage buttons.

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Nine Years OldMy daughter is nine years old. I can't stop thinking about this boy, Alone Banda, also nine, from Zambia. Alone works 6 days a week in a quarry, smashing rocks. He makes about $3.00 every two weeks. I just can't imagine the horrible situation these kids are in. Or maybe, I just can't STOP imagining it.

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Anyone Going to Houston?Check out Fiberart For A Cause at the International Quilt Festival - Houston, November 2-5, 2006. Fiberart For A Cause (FFAC) wasfounded by Virginia A. Spiegel in 2005.Her sister, Nancy J. Spiegel Rosman isthe chair of the American CancerSociety’s Relay For Life fundraiser inForest Lake, MN. Their father is a coloncancer survivor.Virginia wanted to raise an additional

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(RED)There probably aren't many people who haven't heard about the (RED) campaign, thanks to Oprah.Here's the good news:(PRODUCT) RED sales in the U.S. in just two and half weeks have raised enough money to:Provide more than 10,000 men or women with ARV treatment for a year (Note: These treatments are only a small portion of a person’s overall treatment and represent just one year of lifelong

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Pedals For ProgressA friend sent me the link for this site. And here is some info from it:"Every year, affluent Americans buy 22 million new bicycles and discard millions of old ones, abandoning many more unused in basements, sheds, and garages. Most of these end up in our already overburdened landfills. Meanwhile, poor people overseas need cheap, non-polluting transportation to get to jobs,

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World VisionI am a Child Ambassador for World Vision. My family and I sponsor three children through World Vision, one for each of the kids in our family. I became interested in being a Child Ambassador after watching the Oprah show about Northern Uganda. The situation for children there is so desperate, that it broke my heart. More than 25,000 children as young as 5 have been kidnapped during

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Can one person change the world?No, I guess not. ONE person can't change the WHOLE world. But one person can make a difference in one other person's world. And that is the beginning of change. This blog will follow my attempts to make a difference. One thing at a time, one person at a time. Won't you join me?

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