Poverty
My brothers need $600.
We’ve got almost half of the $1000 needed to fund their orphanage food program. If ten people give $60, they’re funded! I first got involved with direct giving because of the New Futures Orphanage. I was scouring the net, looking for a way to reach the poor directly on limited funds, when I came across the [ blog ] run by volunteers at New Futures and knew that I had to help.
Recently, the landlord sold the orphanage out from under the children, who had to be taken to a new location that doesn’t have electricity. So they need to raise money to get 12volt
battery-powered lighting installed, buy toilets, and invest in chickens, fish, and plants as sustainable sources of food, instead of living only on rice from small donations trickling in. The project has established a funding goal of $1000, and we’re almost half of the way there. I’m asking you to help. Take the cost of a night out, or a new video game, or a month of cable TV, and give directly to them for this need. Please.
From The Rules of Work
“Money is good for a few things: protect your family, liberate the poor, and make more money.” — Daniel DiGriz
THE POOR
- Teach us to be responsible for one another.
- Enrich us with opportunities for compassion.
- Demonstrate for us the basic dignity of human survival.
The poor are the orphan, the widow, the neglected, the enslaved, the kidnapped, the tortured, the trafficked, the impoverished, the abandoned and alone, the sick, the imprisoned, the immigrant (the stranger), and all who anywhere suffer or are in need. The poor give us the opportunity to rise by giving. They save us. They make us whole, by letting us do the same for them.
“Not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. The goods we possess are not ours but theirs.” - St. John Chrysostom
HOW CAN I HELP?
- New Futures orphanage in Cambodia [some more info].
- Dazzline Stone School in Chennai, India [more ].
- Warm Hearth orphanage and group home in Armenia [ more].
- Others of our brothers, the poor.
- globalgiving.org and givemeaning.org: Promoting direct giving to the exceedingly poor
- kiva.org: Promoting direct, responsible microloans to raise the working poor out of poverty
- oxfam.org: Promoting responsible allocation of resources to relieve mass hunger
“The true religion is rescuing the orphan and widow in their distress.” - St. James, Patriarch of Jerusalem, Brother of God
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