the Information/How To help
i was catching up with the muslimgirls lj (eljay) community, and i stumbled upon something that hit me hard. (Would like to take bit of space to thank all of those wonderfully compassionate girls on their, who took the time to talk about this issue, and who let me borrow their icons)Something that made me question the world that i live in. I'd been sitting back with my family, slightly annoyed with petty things like my cousins hogging my laptop, but looking forward to the new year, whilst people were losing everything. they were dying. And i had no idea.
So I cried and I started writing, I cry- generally-i write
i looked at the poem I had and thought about what i could do with it. A few days prior to this one i'd done a lot of thinking about doing whatever you an to help when you see something that you know is wrng going on.
So this is my way of helping.
Here are some ways you can help
CHARITIES:
Oxfam:
MSF - Medicins sans Frontierers :
ANERA-American near East Refugee Aid :
SIGN A PETITION:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/gaza_time_for...
DONATIONS & MEDICAL SUPPLIES
http://vivirlatino.com/2009/01/01/way...
ONLINE DISCUSSION
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid...
BE INFORMED
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12303...
http://www.boston.com/news/world/midd...
http://www.boston.com/news/world/midd...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/site...
... why not go to GOOGLE type in Gaza, and click articles
TALK:
Talk to someone you know. Talk someone you don't know. just grab another human being and talk to them. Ask them what they think of The Gaza crisis if they don't know about it, tell them about it. talk about what you could do. Maybe you want to do some fundraising, maybe you could do a presentation at work, or at school. Just do something.
WRITE:
Most of us on here are writers in some way or another. Write for your school paper, write for a local column, whhatever you can do by way of raising awareness is awesome.
PRAY:
Last but not least... pray!
As the saying goes; 'The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor', so bow down before your creator, and pray to him, ask him to help your brothers and sister, pray that he eases their suffering. Pray that a solution is found, and not only that it is found but that it is carried out. I'm not great at coming up with ideas, but I'm sure you are, come up with your own ideas of how to help.
Everyone can do something to help. So Why Don't you just do something to help everyone?
So I cried and I started writing, I cry- generally-i write
i looked at the poem I had and thought about what i could do with it. A few days prior to this one i'd done a lot of thinking about doing whatever you an to help when you see something that you know is wrng going on.
So this is my way of helping.
Here are some ways you can help
CHARITIES:
Oxfam:
MSF - Medicins sans Frontierers :
ANERA-American near East Refugee Aid :
SIGN A PETITION:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/gaza_time_for...
DONATIONS & MEDICAL SUPPLIES
http://vivirlatino.com/2009/01/01/way...
ONLINE DISCUSSION
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid...
BE INFORMED
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12303...
http://www.boston.com/news/world/midd...
http://www.boston.com/news/world/midd...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/site...
... why not go to GOOGLE type in Gaza, and click articles
TALK:
Talk to someone you know. Talk someone you don't know. just grab another human being and talk to them. Ask them what they think of The Gaza crisis if they don't know about it, tell them about it. talk about what you could do. Maybe you want to do some fundraising, maybe you could do a presentation at work, or at school. Just do something.
WRITE:
Most of us on here are writers in some way or another. Write for your school paper, write for a local column, whhatever you can do by way of raising awareness is awesome.
PRAY:
Last but not least... pray!
As the saying goes; 'The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor', so bow down before your creator, and pray to him, ask him to help your brothers and sister, pray that he eases their suffering. Pray that a solution is found, and not only that it is found but that it is carried out. I'm not great at coming up with ideas, but I'm sure you are, come up with your own ideas of how to help.
Everyone can do something to help. So Why Don't you just do something to help everyone?