10% to Sudan Crisis
(x-posted to the 10percentclub)
After a bit more research on Darfur and taking part in the super-quick simple online petition and letter signings through SaveDarfur.org/letter campaign and Amnesty International, I was looking forward to being able to help a little more with conditions in the refugee camps.
*sigh* I know it's both a gift and a curse...but anytime I think of the camps..I seem to zip right there..and suddenly I'm staring out of someone's eyes...not really 'at' anything...more a quiet internal moment...this person is 'staring into space'...in a pain/shock so deep...from all that has happened, all she has seen...and I'm in tears, unable to bear just a minute of what she's feeling for so long, of what is her Reality. I'm in tears now again. ugh.*deeep breaths* ok. But this is what we're dealing with. SO much is needed. So much to restore some Hope to that person. I WANT TO restore hope to that person!!
Put that wish out there...hammered nails..etc. Yesterday opened the mailbox to find a check from Morgan Lehman Gallery for 2 small pieces they sold a while ago and a 12" piece they hadn't even told me sold!
Ok...so yay aGAIN. Thank you thank you, I will do good with it.I will I will.
Today I look around on the web...and decide on Mercy Corps for this 10% donation, specifying the donation for the Sudan Crisis and their work in the refugee camps of Zalingei. As well as the needed basics, like latrines and water, hygiene issues etc..."The agency also hopes to launch youth social and recreational activities to engage the tens of thousands of children living in the camps." In my mind...this 'person I feel' might get involved with this somehow, finding a purpose within it...and a spark of hope return to her almost dead eyes. I don't know, but it sure is worth a shot. Strange to relay all that, but somehow I feel like I should because it's these strange quiet moments of overwhelming internal empathy that really motivate me to Do something.Otherwise, it's all so disconnected from our daily lives...it's media...it's just not felt as 'real'. I need to feel it inside. Not so much I'm paralyzed, but enough to move me. "Never again" the world said after Rwanda.
Anyway,
Last time I donated towards the Sudan Crisis I did it through Doctors Without Borders/Sudan, which of course is doing amazingly necessary things as well. We need to support all of them as much as we possibly can.Ugh, I hope this is not a total bummer entry. I'm sad, but I'm also hopeful. I feel really good about my life and that changes are happening at a fast inspiring rate. Everything really does feel within reach.
After a bit more research on Darfur and taking part in the super-quick simple online petition and letter signings through SaveDarfur.org/letter campaign and Amnesty International, I was looking forward to being able to help a little more with conditions in the refugee camps.
*sigh* I know it's both a gift and a curse...but anytime I think of the camps..I seem to zip right there..and suddenly I'm staring out of someone's eyes...not really 'at' anything...more a quiet internal moment...this person is 'staring into space'...in a pain/shock so deep...from all that has happened, all she has seen...and I'm in tears, unable to bear just a minute of what she's feeling for so long, of what is her Reality. I'm in tears now again. ugh.*deeep breaths* ok. But this is what we're dealing with. SO much is needed. So much to restore some Hope to that person. I WANT TO restore hope to that person!!
Put that wish out there...hammered nails..etc. Yesterday opened the mailbox to find a check from Morgan Lehman Gallery for 2 small pieces they sold a while ago and a 12" piece they hadn't even told me sold!
Ok...so yay aGAIN. Thank you thank you, I will do good with it.I will I will.
Today I look around on the web...and decide on Mercy Corps for this 10% donation, specifying the donation for the Sudan Crisis and their work in the refugee camps of Zalingei. As well as the needed basics, like latrines and water, hygiene issues etc..."The agency also hopes to launch youth social and recreational activities to engage the tens of thousands of children living in the camps." In my mind...this 'person I feel' might get involved with this somehow, finding a purpose within it...and a spark of hope return to her almost dead eyes. I don't know, but it sure is worth a shot. Strange to relay all that, but somehow I feel like I should because it's these strange quiet moments of overwhelming internal empathy that really motivate me to Do something.Otherwise, it's all so disconnected from our daily lives...it's media...it's just not felt as 'real'. I need to feel it inside. Not so much I'm paralyzed, but enough to move me. "Never again" the world said after Rwanda.
Anyway,
Last time I donated towards the Sudan Crisis I did it through Doctors Without Borders/Sudan, which of course is doing amazingly necessary things as well. We need to support all of them as much as we possibly can.Ugh, I hope this is not a total bummer entry. I'm sad, but I'm also hopeful. I feel really good about my life and that changes are happening at a fast inspiring rate. Everything really does feel within reach.