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I will be collecting new boxes of Crayons and monetary donations to donate to the children in CHOC.
(Children's Hospital of Orange County)

Play experiences can help children to cope and adjust to illness and hospitalization. Play is one way the CHOC and CHOC at Mission Child Life Specialists meet the developmental, psychosocial, emotional, and educational needs of our patients.

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Change for Change is a campaign brought on by HERO: a UNA-USA campaign. The HERO campaign is in partnership with the USAID. It is an awareness building and fund raising initiative dedicated to providing comprehensive, school-based support to orphans and vulnerable children living in HIV/AIDS-affected communities in Africa. UNA-USA stands for the United Nations Association of the United States of America. It is a center for innovative programs to engage Americans in issues of global concern. It's educational and humanitarian campaigns, along with its policy and advocacy programs, allow people to make a global impact at the local level. A non-profit organization, UNA-USA encourages United States leadership in the United Nations. Education is the key to a child's future, but for orphans and vulnerable children, schools play a far greater role than academic learning. Schools become a place to not only get an education, but a place where children can receive a meal, drink clean water, receive counseling and learn life building skills that will ultimately serve their own community. The Hero program works in Ethiopia, Namibia, South Africa, and Zambia. Hero schools can range from 50 to 900 students at a school. Change for Change is my fund raising technique for the Hero campaign. Change for Change collects small amounts of donations. If 100 people gave a nickel a day for 365 days, that would equal $1825. That amount of money could save an entire village from harshness of extreme poverty. With that money, one could build a school and still have money for supplies. "Education is the most powerful weapon you can uste to change the world", said Nelson Mandela. Heroes are born and made... find the HERO in you. Be a champion for change!

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You think you can't do anything to save lives? Think again!
Everyday there are so many people who need blood to stay healthy and alive. Blood Source is one Blood Bank that helps people (us) give something so valuable to others who need it. It is estimated that almost everyone, at one time or another will need blood. It can save their life. Imagine that a loved one you are very close to needed blood. Wouldn't you do everything in your power to help them? So what's the difference between your loved one who needs help and someone else's loved one? Not to brag, but my dad has donated blood over 1180 times. That is approximately 148.5 gallons. I can't even begin to imagine how many lives he has saved. That is amazing! He has an account with Blood Source for our Church, and four times a year, we have a blood drive at Church. All of the units of blood from that drive and whoever else donates outside of our drives, is put into our account. Anyone in our Church who needs blood has access to the Church account. That includes a six-year old girl who attends church with her parents. This past year, ('07), she was diagnosed with leukemia. We had a blood drive in honor of her. Thankfully, she is now in remission, but will still have chemotherapy treatments and blood transplants for the next (at least) 2 years. She couldn't be doing as well as she is without blood donated from people who want to make a difference in the world. You can join that cause. Donate Blood. It helps everyone, including you, sooner or later. Blood Source website: www.bloodsource.org
Our Church website: www.natomascrossroads.org
Please, help save lives.

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www.AfricaDreamProject.org

Please visit the site for the full-story, video, photos, and contacts.

Africa Dream Project (ADP) exists to eliminate poverty and empower lives.

We are a not-for-profit group founded and run by students. As students, we understand the immense value of education. We also see the extreme poverty in our world. And so, ADP members utilize passion and education to empower otherwise highly vulnerable individuals who live amidst extreme poverty. In doing so, we give them a chance to overcome desperate conditions and positively impact our world!

Our Current Projects exist in Kibera Slum, Kenya. Kibera is known as Africa's most-densely populated slum. It is, by definition, extreme poverty.

ADP takes American students into the slum for hands-on interventions. In doing so, our members gain new depths of compassion and dedication as they experience life with the people they seek to help.

Our two long-term projects in Kibera:
1. Construction of the FIRST world-class high school for Kibera's orphans.
- The high school will allow orphans to accomplish their dreams as connect from middle school to University. There are an estimated 50,000 orphans in Kibera alone! Currently, most have no access to any high school. We’re changing this!
2. Micro-Enterprise business for widows in Kibera.
- Widows are marginalized and vulnerable. There are thousands in Kibera, a place where 1 in 5 people is HIV-infected! As a result, many widows must resort to commercial sex just to provide food for their children. ADP is helping to take women out of prostitution and supply them with noble small-scale business.

ADP also intensely engages the American community by actively creating awareness about poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa and the world. We paticpate in national events and local events year-round.

We currently have one official chapter at the University of Southern California.

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Starting February 2009, I will be biking across the country to raise money for my high school's environmental action club. The experience will be a wonderful opportunity for me to raise money for my club and thus lessen the carbon footprint of my school, and therefore community.
Currently, the environmental action club (which has just been founded this school year) is devising a composting program for the school. We have met with "Compost Masters" from around town, and are talking with school administrators about this new possibility. Already this year, we have abolished Styrofoam lunch trays from the cafeteria, which were then replaced with biodegradable ones. After (to our horror) discovering that only a small percentage of our school's recyclable materials were in reality being recycled, the club worked in collaboration with the school newspaper to reveal this scandal. Now, every classroom has a recycling bin by the door that is being put to use.
The reason why I so strongly wish to support my small school group is because I am a believer in the "think globally, act locally" philosophy. The only way that we can change the world is if we start in our own backyards.
So in one year, I will be taking my love of cycling and of the environment to a whole new level! Instead of seeing the precious earth of my country in a gas-guzzling car, I will experience the beauty our world has to offer on the saddle of my bicycle. However, the trip itself is not free- expenses of riding equipment, etc. are a load of their own. My fundraising goal is to at least triple these expenses.

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Donation of at least 2 t-shirts at time of purchasing a high school Homecoming "bid." The donation will henceforth be an annual event which commenced this year through an idea formulated between friends and the assistance of personnel and student council at my high school. We successfully received a total of over 1500 t-shirts which were donated to a local area charity called "Tent City." I also helped distribute these shirts to the homeless the following weekend after our homecoming.

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We started a cause week in our school to raise money for five different causes, Parkinson’s disease, Diabetes, AIDS, Alzheimer’s, and Cancer. To raise money for each cause we dedicated each day to a cause. Every day during third period we would go around to each classroom to inform the class of the cause we were helping that day and asked people to give donations. We set a color for each cause and on the day of that cause the students were encouraged to wear those colors.
Prior to the actual week of causes, those of us planning the events made bracelets with hemp string and colorful beads. Each color representing its own cause and arranged on the bracelet in order of the days the people wearing them were to wear that color of shirt. We sold these bracelets for $2.00 each. 100% of the proceeds went to the causes.
Since cancer was the cause that inspired our efforts in the first place we decided to make Friday the biggest day of the week. We had a school assembly, which much of the community attended. The main attraction was 426 inches of hair that girls at our school donated to locks for love in one assembly where they had it all cut off in front of everybody. At this assembly we also invited representatives form each targeted cause to receive checks for $1,000.00 each.

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Since October, a club at my school, Invisible Children United, of which I am an officer, has been working to raise money to aide the crisis in Uganda. My primary responsibility in the club has been to plan, organize, and implement our many fundraising events. For twenty years, a civil war has torn Northern Uganda apart, resulting in 1.5 million people displaced into camps, and a student to teacher ratio of 300 to 1, and the endless persecution of the Acholi people. The rebel army fighting in Northern Uganda has also been kidnapping children as young as 8 and forcing them to fight and kill their former neighbors. In October my school was paired with a secondary school in Uganda. We are currently raising funds to provide a quality education to the 881 students enrolled in this small school. We raised $3,000 in two weeks in the clubs first big fundraising push. We paralleled the invisible children to a play I was directing about the children of the holocaust, and turned the performance into an awareness/fund raising event. I advertised the event for a week on our school’s televised morning announcements by talking to the students briefly about the cause, what we were doing to change it, and the many ways they could help. Also that week, members of the club and I collected spare change at lunch from the students. The efforts of that week raised $2,450. The following weekend we held a screening at my church involving the community’s youth, where we were able to bring the cause to about 45 new people, and in the process raise $530.

Following these first two events, we are about to begin our second phase of fundraising that will last from early December to late January. I have planned a series of screenings of the Invisible Children movie at local churches and we will be taking donations at each screening, hopefully achieving an equal success to our first church screening. We will continue this after the Christmas holiday. On January 25th we have reserved a 1250 seat auditorium where we have arranged for local bands to play and a screening of the film in an effort to raise more money. Our goal is to have raised $10,000 by February 1.

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My name is Isai Coca and I am the director of chasing hopes Ministries we are working on a project for Peru called “navidad por Pisco”.
Pisco is a city located four hours south of Lima. On August 15th this city were hit by an 8.0 earthquake destroying about 90% of the building and houses. Leaving more than 500 deaths and thousands victims.
The greatest purpose of Chasing Hopes Ministries is reaching the lost. As an nonprofit organization, we
Are focused in bringing material relief and spiritual Guidance to the most needed. Specially those kids that were affected for this earthquake.
Chasing Hopes Ministries was born as a response to the called of God to our lives. Our priority is to go to places where children are in extreme poverty and without hopes, supplying them physical and spiritual relief. Chasing Hopes Ministries goal is to reach children in Latin America, helping them in the spiritual, physical and social Development.
Chasing hopes has been working in the city of Pisco in Peru for the past months. With the help of different organizations and with donations of many people we have been feeding around 150 children and we have been helping around of 500 families with clothes, food, water, and the rebuilding
We are looking for someone who can help us with our project “Navidad por Pisco”. We would like to raise funds to make a Christmas celebration for these kids. The idea we have is to bring toys for 3000 children that are living in this city and were affected for the past earthquake, so we would like to have your support to make this happen.
We are planning the trip for December 15th and we need the funds to make this happen, or if you can support us with toys for children between 3 and 12 ages.
Finally as a Director of this Organization, I would like to invite you and any others persons or institutions to visit our web page www.chasinghopes.org
Thank You for your support and God Bless you for your help to those kids.

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After a fourteen year civil war, Liberia'a people and land suffered many hardships. We traveled to Kpein, Liberia for three weeks to help build a school and restore a community. There they were using an old church for a school building. We not only built a new school house, but we created many relationships between us and the locals and moreso with the country of Liberia.