Liberia - A good way to support children with an "American" connection

[slim]

You history buffs ought to know about the connection Liberia has with the United States. Currently they're an up and coming African nation in a recovering post-war democracy.

A classmate of mine is active in a non-profit organization called "More than Me" that helps young girls get a good education. Seems like it'd be something most of us would have no trouble supporting. For only $350 a year, a child can get an education. Think that over for a minute. For less than the cost of your Starbucks each morning, you can send a kid to school.

I know we're all active in saving our own country. Here's our chance to save the world!

Check out their website - http://www.morethanme.org/

[Fred]

    slim, you're treading on the far edge of SOM-SOM with this post.

    We aren't even sure we can save our own country yet, and the future may hold a lot of treading water for each of us, if we don't.

   So I appreciate the thought of "saving the world" but for the nonce, until we save the sinking ship we're currently on, I'm thinking "charity begins at home".

[slim]

Undoubtedly so.

But the beauty of this inter-organizational support is many of the folks in that organization need to be 7th Stepped. It's unlikely any of them would ever make it out to an Appleseed since we're on "opposite sides" of that stuff we don't talk about. Once they see us taking an active interest in their program it's highly likely they'll start taking an interest in ours. We're both rooted in history. We're both trying to wake people up. And we're both doing good things.

I'm not "selling" this to anyone. I just saw it as a good opportunity for those (like spouses and teenage/college kids) who aren't 100% into our program to get involved in a historically-based non-profit group that would be mutually beneficial when it comes to getting up off their couch and saving the country. 

[slim]

We aren't even sure we can save our own country yet,

I've been thinking about this post all day...

... and I'm sure we can save the country! All we need is a few more  -:) and we'll be set.

[yellowhousejake]

We aren't even sure we can save our own country yet,

I've been thinking about this post all day...

... and I'm sure we can save the country! All we need is a few more  -:) and we'll be set.

"aren't sure?" Hide and watch grandpa, we will get it done.

YHJ

[yellowhousejake]

  -:)

OK, a smiley or two is ok, even more than two, but this is crazy. I already turn off signatures and avatars to fit more thread on my little screen. Now I got dancing icons everywhere, I see nothing in my profile settings to turn this stuff off.

Any ideas before I setup my own CSS file?

YHJ

[SPQR]

do what you want but if that Mohawk emoticon goes anywhere I'm quitting.   -:)

[Johnnyappleseed]

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