Here are a few NGOs and other cool things I've found lately :) It always makes me smile and feel a little balloon of hope pulling me upward when I see again and again that there are so many people in the world trying to do good, trying to help each other, trying to live well, trying to love. There might be a lot of trouble, but there's also a lot of hope. The hope-makers are just too busy doing good to pause and tell people about it all the time perhaps :)
1) beadforlife.org This is an NGO centered in Uganda where Ugandans make and sell beautiful homemade beads from recycled paper and use the profits to help build homes, provide education, and more--it's awesome! I heard about it through Nick Kristoff's NYTimes blog (which you should all totally check out at kristof.blogs.nytimes.com, by the way!)
2) wegivebooks.org If you go to this website you can read all kinds of cute kids' books online for free! (They have Corduroy, Madeline, and more!) For every book you read, a book will be donated to a charity of your choice (they give you a couple literacy oriented programs to choose from)
3) thehungersite.com you just click and sponsors donate food---that's it!
Thanks everyone! I'll try and add things to this list later :) Does anyone else have some to add? I'd love, love, love to hear about it!!!
-Sierra
PS - Here's a good quote to tie in with all of this:
"The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls. We become more significant individuals as we serve others. We become more substantive as we serve others—indeed, it is easier to “find” ourselves because there is so much more of us to find!"
-President Spencer W. Kimball, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/193170.Spencer_W_Kimball)
*photo of young woman from beadforlife.org, photo of children from wikipedia
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