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Children In Need

Erica Sampayo — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:19:44 -0500

Mama Tina’s Resource Center seeks to meet the needs of impoverished children who have been orphaned or abandoned because of a variety of uncontrollable circumstances in Kisumu, Kenya. Mama Tina provides basic needs (food, shelter, education and health care) to these children. With these basic needs met these children will have an opportunity to become successful members and leaders of society.

Current projects that we are working on include:

• Providing housing & education to orphans (currently provided for 45+ children).

IBDCure International

gsofer — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:56:23 -0600

The IBDCure.org Foundation's mission is to: increase awareness, enhance funding, intensify research, and urge the awknowledgement & acceptance of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Current initiatives include: urging the United States Postal Service to issue an awareness stamp for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), advocating for people with adversities in areas such as education, and inspiring others to pursue their dreams while educating them on IBD, through Gideon's "What it Means to be Alive" presentation.

Helping the Indian Helpless

otool3 — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:27:16 -0600

In India, millions of men and women are outcast from their society. These people cannot touch anything that normal society can for fear that they will make it diseased. They must live without reasonable job opportunity, assistance from the government, or contact from developed society of any kind. They are not criminals. Many do not even have disease. They are known as the "Dalite" or the "Untouchables" and they are ostracized from regular society simply because of the family that each was born into. The Caste System of India is egregiously rigid and has been in effect for 2000 years.

Youth Adopt A Grandparent

Yag — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:01:43 -0500

Project Youth Adopt a Grandparent is an organization developed to offer assistance to terminally ill patients in their homes,Nursing homes,Retirement facilities,etc.By offering companion time grief support and many other acts of kindness and assistance.This project is a never ending project which i developed alone and people never thought that i could pull it off but my organization is a very remarkable organization.

Autographs4CF

Haushinka2037 — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:17:43 -0500

Autograph4CF is a project I'm doing, where celebrity autographs will be auctioned off to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to help fund research for a cure. CF is one of the most common genetic disorders, with about 30,000 people affected in the US alone. It affects the lungs and pancreas, and used to be like a death sentence... in the 60s, the lifespan was about 14. Now it's about 37 years, since treatments have improved. However, there's no cure yet.

Colleges Against Cancer

Chelsey1 — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:00:52 -0500

I am going to be a freshman premed/bio major at Boston University this fall. I have wanted to be a pediatric oncologist after loosing the son of a very close family friend whom I baby-sat for to pediatric cancer when he was three. I have started to set up a BU chapter of CAC (Colleges Against Cancer), an organization in collaboration with the American Cancer Society. The American Cancer Society will work with this club to bring events such as relay for life to Boston University.

How to prevent HIV/AIDS

Afinger — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:20:36 -0500

Preventing HIV/AIDS

There are many simple steps that you can take to avoid contracting the deadly disease. Learn about them here and educate your friends.

If you're certain you're ready for sex, it is always best to use contraception. Here's a list of things to keep in mind:

Beading the Odds

dli318 — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:44:59 -0500

"Children" and "cancer" are two words that should never occur in the same sentence. Yet each school day, 46 children, or two entire classrooms of kids, are diagnosed with cancer. The word cancer comes in shades of gray; a burst of color is necessary to contrast the darkness of this word. That's where "Beading the Odds" comes in. The purpose is to travel to different hospitals and visit the children's cancer wards to make beaded bracelets; each color bead stands for a different aspect of strength and unity.

Lily Blossoms

bree1109 — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:43:45 -0500

My mom and I make glass beaded bracelets to raise awareness and money for Dr. Ben Carson's Angels in the Operating Room. (he operates on kids overseas who can't afford to pay him for supplies)I personally hold this very close to heart, because Dr. Carson saved my life in 2006. I have a Chiari Type 1 malformation and had I not gotten the surgery I probably would be blind, paralyzed and possibly dead if hit in the right spot in the back of my neck where my brain tonsils are exposed.

Ernestine Marie Foundation

ligenzch — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:57:56 -0500

The Ernestine Marie Foundation is a non-profit organization, set up to help individuals and families who suffer from Spina Bifida. I am looking to help the families directly by donating the proceeds from community events. By mid 2008, I hope to expand the organization to help individuals and families in different states, possibly even globally, and also help individuals with other types of diseases.
This foundation is set up in remembrance of my aunt who passed away when she was 3 days old from spina bifida. Her name was Ernestine Marie.