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Soup Kitchens for Pets . . .
Pet soup kitchens are becoming more popular, as more people -- and welfare organizations -- seek to establish a cheap, community-based means of supporting pet owners in need.
To learn more about pet food pantries, please watch video story here.
Pets are people too. My own dog endorses all projects that provide for animals.
Thanks for stopping by the cottage today. ♥Rosemary and Webster
Photo Courtesy of Best Friends Animal Society
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
The Face of The Great Depression | Update (video) . . .
As the U.S. slips into recession, a daughter reflects on Dorothea Lange's photo, which has come to symbolize the Depression.
'Migrant Mother' remembered (3:41)
A friend sent me the original CNN video but I could not embed it for some reason. Luckily I found it on YouTube. I found it very interesting to learn the real story of the most famous photograph from the Great Depression from one of the children in the picture. She is the little girl on the left with her head on her mother's shoulder.
Watch and listen.
There is a very timely message at the end.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Boy Designs 'Home Domb Shelter' from Trash . . .
You will love this heartwarming story! Max is my hero.
Twelve-year-old Max Wallack was recently named the winner of Design Squad's Trash to Treasure competition — a contest that inspired kids to repurpose trash into practical inventions.
So just what was the brilliant idea Max came up with? Wallack invented a “Home Dome,” a structure made of plastic bags filled with Styrofoam packing peanuts, designed to serve as a temporary shelter for homeless people and disaster victims. It also would help relieve landfill growth. Max was awarded a $10,000 prize provided by the Intel Foundation, but said: “I don’t really care about the money. I care about helping people.”
This isn’t the first big win for Wallack either! “When I was six,” Max said, “I won an invention contest that included a trip to Chicago. While there, I saw homeless people living on streets, and beneath highways and underpasses. I felt very sorry for these people, and ever since then, felt that my goal and obligation was to find a way to help them. My invention improves the living conditions for homeless people, refugees, or disaster victims by giving them easy-to-assemble shelter.”
Source: ecorazzi via treehugger
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Mankind is No Island ~ award winning cell phone video . . .
The best part is that it was shot on the streets of New York & Sydney, Australia with a total budget of $57.00 and captured using cell phones, nothing else!
Please remember those less fortunate than yourself this Thanksgiving.
Note: This film might load slowly...please be patient...it is SO worth watching! Warning: you will cry.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Free Medical, Dental & Vision to poor in America and third world countries . . .
I would like to call attention to Remote Area Medical® (RAM) Volunteer Corps. A non-profit, volunteer, airborne relief corps dedicated to serving mankind by providing free clinics for health care, dental care, eye care, veterinary services, and technical and educational assistance to people in remote areas of the United States and the world.
Please give their website the attention it deserves. Click on every link and consider making a donation of your money, your services, supplies, or your time. I mailed a large check today...10/16/2008. It felt so good just writing it!!! Plus I know it will be put to such good use.
Founded in 1985, Remote Area Medical® is a publicly supported all-volunteer charitable organization. Volunteer doctors, nurses, pilots, veterinarians and support workers participate in expeditions (at their own expense) in some of the world's most remote and places. Medical supplies, medicines, facilities and vehicles are donated.
I first learned about them on March 20, 2008 when CBS 60 Minutes ran a segment about a weekend in poverty stricken rural Tennessee where huge crowds gathered days before the event to get free medical assistance. Hundreds were turned away at the end due to lack of time.
Luckily, I found a shortened version of the segment on YouTube.
Please watch...it is very inspiring. You won't be sorry.
RAM FREE CLINICS will be at the following locations between now and Election Day (the next three weeks).
Oct. 18-19
McCreary County, Kentucky & Scott County, Tennessee
at Scott Appalachian Industries (SAI), Huntsville, TN
(Dental, Vision, Medical)
Oct. 25-Nov. 2
Honduras - Seguatepeque (South America)
(Dental, Vision, Medical)
Nov. 1-2
Grundy County, Tennessee
(Dental, Vision, Medical)
See full 2008 schedule. See full 2009 schedule.
Remote Area Medical Foundation
1834 Beech Street
Knoxville, TN 37920
865-579-1530
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