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A food pantry here in the Arkanshire needs help. The pantry suffered collateral damage from a fire in a neighboring building, and health regulations required the staffers to throw out much of the food.

The story, with an address for donations:
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0909/661044.html

About the fire itself:
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0909/659721.html

A word from Mr. Kem:
I can eat anything but Magnozite, but Terrans aren't so lucky. Any help you can send your fellow Terrans would be cool.


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I have looked through about the first 25 pages or so of The Anywhere Machine, and found no thread on which to post charities. I did, however, find this one. I decided to convert it to a thread on which we could post our choices of charities to help out, as we are able and feel moved to do so.--KC

The Christian Appalachian Project works to help some of the least fortunate people in the USA.

http://www.christianapp.org/

OK, here's two charities in one post.

Free Rice lets you donate rice--paid for by site sponsors--and expand your knowledge of a choice of subjects. (English vocabulary is simply the default choice.)

http://www.freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1516

The Hunger Site doesn't even require you to answer any questions. Just go there and click!

http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1

Now I'd like to provide a word from a distinguished statesman--but I couldn't find one, so I settled for Tenzil:

"Remember, I can eat rocks. You Terrans can't. Since the LSH doesn't exist in your universe, YOU have to be the heroes."

The Red Cross is seeking donations to help the victims of the recent storms in the Midwest and South.

http://american.redcross.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=12189.0

Nice thread, KC.

Here's a "charity" of sorts to raise money for "a film about solutions to sex trafficking" right here in the United States "of young girls and boys:

http://www.hoperoadthemovie.org/

About ten years ago it was determined that a lot of the area's homeless and poverty stricken didn't have access to food banks or soup kitchens due to geography. The solution: Bring the Soup Kitchen to them. Mobile One keeps buses on the road with a stocked kitchen that makes regular stops around the city. As you can imagine, bus maintenance and fuel are an ever escalating cost.

http://www.mobileonemoncton.ca/public/accueil.cfm?lang=ang

Here's another doubleheader:

Christian Solidarity Worldwide advocates for religious freedom for all faiths, and calls attention to the plight of people persecuted for their beliefs under various kinds of authoritarian regimes.

http://www.csw.org.uk/home.htm

Amnesty International does the same things among its other good works in promoting human rights (This is the US site).

http://www.amnestyusa.org/

Tomorrow is the New York City AIDS walk... I'll be walking for the 9th year in a row... it's something I look forward to every year... hard to describe the experience... emotions run very high... it sometimes feels like a giant party in the streets of Manhattan with a very important underlying cause... so many people walking in memory of a loved one... I'm fortunate to not have lost someone close, but I know too many people affected by AIDS in one way or another... "Fill the streets!"

The Red Cross is looking for donations to help the victims of Hurricane Isaac.

https://www.redcross.org/donate/ind...&subcode=NHQIsaacPOSTFallNonImpacted

We don't have a Legion in the real world, so we have to be the heroes, or at least subsidize them.

Avaaz is a global organization where members can start petitions on various issues. Avaaz aims to bring important issues to the attention of the people in power, who have the power to make decisions that affect us all.

I mentioned Christian Solidarity Worldwide in a previous post. Here's their current featured case:

http://www.csw.org.uk/cryfreedomcuba

The dinosaurs running Cuba would be funny, if not for their victims.

I reckon you've all heard of Hurricane Sandy by now. The Red Cross is seeking donations to help the victims.

http://www.redcross.org/index.jsp

The currently featured CSW case concerns a pastor in Iran. He has been jailed on trumped-up charges. His health is failing, and he is not receiving proper medical treatment.

http://www.csw.org.uk/cryfreedomiran

E-mailing is easier than it has been. CSW now provides a form letter to which you can add your own comments.

Got this from Avaaz.org:

I dunno if you guys ever plan to go to Uganda, but...

Dear friends,

The Ugandan Parliament is set to pass a brutal law that could carry the death penalty for homosexuality. If they do, thousands of Ugandans could face execution -- just for being gay.
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We've helped stop this bill before, and we can do it again. After a massive global outcry last year, Ugandan President Museveni blocked the bill's progress. But political unrest is mounting in Uganda, and religious extremists in Parliament are hoping confusion and violence in the streets will distract the international community from a second push to pass this hate-filled law. We can show them that the world is still watching.

We have no time to lose. Let’s get one million voices against Uganda's gay death penalty in the next 24 hours -- we'll deliver it to Uganda's leaders and key countries. Click here to take action, then forward this email to everyone:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/uganda_stop_gay_death_law/?tnYicab

President Museveni backed away from this bill before, after international pressure threatened Uganda's support. Let's build a million strong petition to stop the gay death penalty bill again, and save lives. We only have hours -- sign below, then tell friends and family:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/uganda_stop_gay_death_law/?tnYicab

Last time, our international petition condemning the gay death penalty law was delivered to Parliament – spurring a global news story and enough pressure to block the bill for months. When a tabloid newspaper published 100 names, pictures and addresses, of suspected gays and those identified were threatened, Avaaz supported a legal case against the paper and we won! Together we have stood up, time and time again, for Uganda’s gay community -- now they need us more than ever.

For what it's worth, they've apparently dropped the death penalty part of the bill, but it's still pretty nasty.

Thanks for bringing attention to this, because I don't think it's received anywhere near the attention that it deserves, at least in the American media.

Avaaz.org regularly sends updates on similar matters, such as the Pakistani girl who was going to be tried for allegedly burning a Koran. I've probably signed more than a dozen petitions since I've subscribed.

I looked through the first 10 pages of "The Anywhere Machine" and could not find a thread like this, and sprock if I'm going to check all 113 pages.

I thought it would be good to have a page where we could post links to various charities. I'll kick it off with this one:

Would you like to improve your knowledge and feed hungry folks? The site called Free Rice offers multiple-choice questions in several fields of knowledge. Each correct answer sends 10 grains of rice to the United Nations' World Food Program. The site's advertisers pay for the rice.

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

That's a lot of fun!

Faboo!!

I've been playing FreeRice for ages. Great site! Once I was on such a roll that I thought I'd never be able to stop giving rice to starving people... but then I got a tough batch of words and it all came crashing down.

Kid, I think there is one on Free Rice, but its cool and two spots mentioning it wont hurt.

Hi guys. Um, look, I hate the notion of bothering people I care about with Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and GoFundMe campaigns when you all have stuff in your own lives. It's just, beyond whatever money I can contribute this is the best I can do to help with these types of things.

I don't this girl in person and she's not someone I'm related to. Her name's Esinam and she lives in Ghana, Africa. The campaign is trying to raise $10,000 to afford a surgery to correct a facial deformity Esinam was born with. The doctors are not sure what the cause is because her parents are dead and she is living with an old woman who is ill.

http://www.gofundme.com/1z2mfw

I only just found out about this campaign last weekend. Unfortunately, and I am very ashamed of this, the campaign has been going for NINE MONTHS. And it was just at a fraction of its goal until this weekend. Thank God for Tumblr is all I have to say. I honestly can't imagine what this young woman had felt during those nine months when it looked like no progress was being made and I would hate if it failed when being so close.

But the campaign ends on Thursday and it's currently at $9,620 dollars. Yesterday the funding was at $9550 but it then dropped to $9125 in the afternoon for whatever reason.

I'm not asking you guys to donate money. If you could help spread word that would be wonderful.

Guys I am so sorry I didn't know someone had created a thread for stuff like this. I wouldn't have known what to type to search. I still have difficulty with the new search engine.

Don't worry, we ALL have problems with this search function.

But now we know, and knowing is half the battle!

And that's one to grow on.