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Supplemental Food for People Living with HIV/AIDS

Wayne Miya — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:49:36 +0000

Help Esther’s Pantry to ease the suffering and hardships of someone living with HIV/AIDS. A gift of just $10 can provide supplemental food for a whole month.

$10 — Provides supplemental food for 1 person for a month
$30 — Provides Supplemental food for a family of 3 for a month
$75 — Provudes supplemental food and personal care itmes for 6 people for a month

Summary
Esther’s Pantry provides supplemental food to low income people in the Portland area who living with HIV/AIDS. Many clients also have a history of mental illness, homelessness and substance abuse.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
People living below the poverty line and struggling with HIV/AIDS often go without the basic necessities, including food. Esther’s Pantry helps by providing nutrient rich supplemental foods that helps these individuals maintain they health. Because of the stigma that is often associated with HIV/AIDS, Esther’s Pantry provides a safe environment where clients can receive services from staff and volunteers that are supportive and non-judgmental. Without Esther’s, clients would likely go hungry.

Activities
Esther’s Pantry provides nutritional food and personal care items to over 200 people each month who are living with HIV/AIDS that would otherwise go hungry. Clients select the food they like from each of the basic food groups.

Potential Long Term Impact
This stable food source to more that 200 individuals each month helps ensure our clients will not experience a decline in their health due to lack of nutrition. This is part of what will keep them out of the hospital and maintain their independence.

Project Message
Proper nutrition and regular meals are an important part of staying healthy, especially when you are living with HIV/AIDS. Without Esther’s Pantry I’d probably be sick more and often go without food.
– Alex, Esther’s Pantry Client

Project Sponsor: Our House of Portland
Theme: Health | Location: United States
Need:$35,000
Project #5191 on GlobalGiving.com

Sourced from: GlobalGiving Projects

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Give A Goat!

dereks — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:14:05 +0000

This is Thermogene, a widow in Haiti. Give A Goat and help someone like her. Because someone decided to donate a goat, she has reason to smile.

Hope for many people has four legs and goes “Maaa!” It is time again to Give A Goat!

I bring this up because it is time once again to consider goats, and to invite them into our lives. I will buy several this year, even though I live in a city, and have nowhere for them to roam. I will buy several as Christmas presents for family, and turn them over to people who desperately need them. Give A Goat! It is truly Humanitarian Aid.

I recently took a trip with World Concern to visit Haiti, a country filled with wonderful people who struggle to eat, learn and find work. Then, last summer, three hurricanes and a tropical storm further ravaged the country.

I met families in Haiti who live on resources that would baffle most people. It is not unusual for someone to stake their livelihoods on a couple of goats, but that is exactly what people I met are forced to do.

I met a sweet grandmother in Haiti named Thermogene who lost everything — EVERYTHING — she owns in the hurricanes, including goats, and she was left without an income. For Thermogene, an income comes from raising a few animals, including goats. And the storm killed every animal.

When I met Thermogene, it was about 100 degrees. I was hot. It was dusty. She was dressed in her best clothes. She was ecstatic. What in the world would make this woman smile so much?

Someone decided to give a goat to her through World Concern’s Global Gift Guide.

Thermogene received two goats from World Concern, and with it she will be able to sell milk and sell the kids, when her goats have babies. People who donated through World Concern also gave her fruit trees.

These are such simple gifts. It is easy to donate — to Give A Goat. To Thermogene and so many others, goats provide life.

Check out goats and the rest of the Global Gift Guide at www.worldconcern.org/ggg

Sourced from: Humanitarian Aid and Relief

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Lifeblood

scott — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:16:43 +0000

Giving blood is free and easy and saves lives every day. If you have ever experienced a time when you or someone you loved was in desperate need for blood to live than you know the real importance of this service. If you haven’t experienced it than imagine if someone you care about was injured and there wasn’t enough blood to save them.

Blood is something we often take for granted but it doesn’t grow on trees. Each of us depend on the kindness of a relatively small minority of us who generously donate it for the good of us all. You can be one of those kind and generous few.

Usually the stumbling blocks we all face when thinking about donating blood is the unknown. How do I it? Where do I go? How long does it take? Does it hurt?

To find out answers to these questions and more go to our Blood Bank page.

This is worth our time and thought. It could save someone’s life and it might even be someone you care about.

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Cure a Child for 44 cents

scott — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:48:28 +0000

We can save the life of a child suffering from potentially deadly parasites for only 44 cents. Watch this video by World Concern about “the 44 cent Challenge” to learn more.

Donate Now to World Concern’s 44 cent deworming program

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Be a “Big” difference

scott — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:12:00 +0000

“Volunteering just 4 hours a month can change a young person’s life.“
More then ever before children need positive roll-models and mentors in their lives. With just 4 hours a month of your time you could be that for a boy or girl through Big Brothers Big Sisters. Plus volunteering as a “Big” can be amazingly rewarding and really simple. You and your “Little” can share in activities that you do anyway like playing basketball, board games, hiking, or grabbing a pizza.

Find out more

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Sponsor a… Senior?

scott — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:11:52 +0000

Most of us are familiar with Child Sponsorship but Christian Foundation for Children and Aging works to also provide for the elderly who are suffering through poverty. Through CFCA you can sponsor an aging individual and provide them with the food, clothing, and medical care that can change their life as well as offering them hope, dignity, and friendship. Grandmothers and grandfathers around the world are suffering in extreme poverty in the last years of their life. For the cost of a coffee a day you can be a huge difference in their life.

Learn more about CFCA

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Give Clean Drinking Water

scott — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:30:00 +0000

In the developing world a child dies every 20 seconds from disease caused by polluted drinking water. These children and families have no other option but to drink the dirty, polluted water from the rivers and wells they can find.
Samaritan’s Purse is one of the organizations trying to solve this problem by supplying families and villages with BioSand Water Filters. This simple and cost effective filter made of just concrete, sand, gravel, and PVC piping eliminates the organisms responsible for disease as well as the particles that cause cloudiness, foul taste, and odour.

For just $100 you can give the amazing gift to a family of clean, safe, pure drinking water through a BioSand Water Filter.

Give a Water Filter

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Protect a Family from Malaria

scott — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:42:00 +0000

Malaria accounts for up to half of all hospital admission in Africa and is a leading killer of children. All that’s needed to protect people is a simple insecticide-treated bed net but many families in Africa simply cannot afford one. Because of this the Nothing But Nets grassroots campaign was started.
For just $10, Nothing But Nets will purchase a bed net, deliver it to a family, and explain its use.

If you have an extra $10, how about buying a bed net for a needy family so they can sleep in peace at night without the fear of their children dying from malaria.

Click here to buy a net right now

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