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About Feed the Children

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Minister Larry Jones and his wife Frances formed Feed The Children in 1979. It all started with a small child named Jason who Larry Jones met while the latter was attending a conference in Haiti. Jason had approached the minister and asked for something to eat. Jones gave the boy some bread, butter and a soda and was amazed at the sight of a hungry child while grain was abundant back in his Oklahoma City home.

Jason is just one of the millions, or perhaps billions, of kids that are suffering from hunger. The thought inspired Larry and Frances to create an organization and give out food to the world’s needy. Three decades later, Feed The Children has continued to live out its mission of helping out the world’s hungry. To date, the organization has delivered necessities to 119 countries around the globe, giving out millions of pounds of food and supplementing thousands of meals per day.

Feed The Children also provides relief support to victims of natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and tsunamis. They have spent millions of dollars to aid the victims of the September 11 attacks and the South Asian tsunami. They also gave out nearly 700 truckloads of relief goods to Hurricane Katrina victims.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_The_Children

Direct Relief International: a Profile

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Direct Relief International is a non-profit organization that aims for the improvement of the quality of life for people all over the world. At present, the Santa Barbara, California-based organization delivers medical assistance and disaster relief to underprivileged communities and disaster victims, natural or man-made.

Established in August 23, 1948 by William Zimdin, an Estonian immigrant who channeled his wealth to providing relief assistance to victims of World War II, it later came to be known as Direct Relief International and was managed by his close associate Dennis Karczag.

As an independent non-profit, its support is sourced from donations made by individuals, corporations, foundations, and associations with a sterling record of humanitarian accomplishments. Being a four-star charity, it was recognized recently by Forbes as one of only two US-based nonprofits that is “100% efficient in fundraising”.

Direct Relief International has accomplished medical relief missions all over the world, providing medical assistance to refugees in Tibet and earthquake victims in Peru. Since 2000, it has provided $1 billion in direct aid, helping 49.8 million people in 59 countries.

Direct Relief International has contributed to the international relief effort along with other non-profits like Feed the Children (FTC), a Christian relief organization. Feed the Children recently launched the Giving is Good initiative, providing a venue for people to choose the charities they wish to partner with. Feed the Children believes that giving is good and through giving, we contribute to meaningful change.

Did You Really Mean It?

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands: one Nation under God, indivisible,With Liberty and Justice for all. You’ve all said it in school, but did you really mean it, or did you just say it because you were told to, a real American says it with conviction and really means it.

It says that you’ll respect our land and it’s laws, if you desire to have the freedom that it provides, it says as long as we think as one entity, we can’t be divided or brought down, by saying it as a real American you are pledging to respect and defend our country, and it’s way of life, if you can’t even do something that simple, then get out.

In the pledge it says that if you respect our country, and follow it’s laws, then you will be afforded the freedoms and liberties that are due to you, and just think for a minute, that really is the case, you don’t need the proper paper work, just to drive across town, like you would in Russia, and the cops here can’t just lay a beat down on you because they want to like other places.

All you have to do to enjoy these freedoms, is have a little respect for our country, and how thing work here, and you will have the freedom that you deserve, but it also takes a lot of hard work to keep this a free country, and you have to do your part to, one of the most disrespectful things that I can think of is, people that move to our country, but are to lazy to learn the language.

Our American kids, should not be forced to learn Spanish in school, unless of course they want to learn it, they should be forced to learn our language, which by the way is English, if we were to move to their country, we’d have to learn their language, or just not talk to any of them, it’s just disrespectful.

By all means it’s disrespectful to move here, and the fly the flag of your country in the back window of your car for everybody to see, no wonder people get upset, a real American would get highly agitated about this, it’s just a hit below the belt, a hit where it hurts, and they don’t do it because they like this country.

There are two examples of blatant disrespect of our country, do you want me to keep going, because I can, they come here, and form their gangs, a bunch of people who deserve no rights, beat old ladies and take their SS checks, steal cars and dismantle them for profit, do burglaries, and believe me, they would be glad to hit your house next, shoot people for no reason, but for some reason we have to be nice.

In that last sentence are five more forms of disrespect for our country, and it’s way of life, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg, things will continue to get worse unless we do something about it, have you ever heard the definition of insanity, it’s do the same thing, the same way everyday, and expect a different outcome, just think about it, that is what were beginning to do here.

David Atkin - EzineArticles Expert Author

I live in Salt Lake City, Utah, and have been in the automotive business for about 25 years, and during that time I have worked in all facets of the industry, plus owned my own shops, like I do now.