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Saveachildsheart.org

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savechildheart.jpgIn true fashion of giving, an Israeli Charity has been working for 10 years to save children from various heart diseases that afflict many in the war-torn region. The Hospital, Wolfson in Israel has been operating on Iraqi children who have managed to get there with their parents to seek help for their child’s defective hearts. Children from all over the world have benefited from the work they do there, from Palestinian, Iraqi and all other nationalities, they open their doors to children who would otherwise have died due to heart problems their parents could not afford to pay for treatment. The hospital claims to save a child’s life every 29 hours and that means a lot for the war torn region. This is the true spirit of giving; even long time enemies turn back on their differences for a child whose life is in jeopardy. Pediatric heart surgery is one of the most specialized and expensive types of surgery a child can ever have, many children die from heart problems such as defects and injuries received during conflicts in the region. The hospital works with some of the most sophisticated equipment and some of the best pediatric heart surgeons in Israel and the world over who donate their time and skills to help these children allowing them to live normal adult lives.
The hospital and the Organization also aims to educate doctors in their respective regions and award facilities to develop and cater to their local needs. The full-outreach program does not look at color, race, ethnicity or any other distinguishing factor other than the fact they all share a common goal, to give a child the life they deserve with the best possible treatment the developed world has to offer. Their doctors also conduct outreach programs, going to the far corners of the world to do heart surgery on children who would otherwise have no futures if it were not for their pioneering work. Visit them and get to know the pioneering work and lives they have saved. Be inspired by the stories of survival and hope that have resulted from their actions as they close their eyes to discrimination focusing on the task at hand, saving lives!

Originally posted on April 25, 2008 @ 6:55 am

Lost Children’s Network

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ChildWarriors.jpgNothing makes society put aside its differences than cases of missing and exploited children. Children are some of the most abused and misunderstood in most developing countries that they suffer more than we know. They are exploited as child labor, child warriors, prostitutes or simply victims of bad economic planning that allots enough resources for their future and development. The Lost Childrens Network, is a group of several non-profit charities who focus on the problem and try to alleviate some of the indignities children suffer all over the globe.

Recent statistics have shown that the use of children as child soldiers (mainly in Africa where the number of misguided children has grown to such extent that they are viewed as a resource for war) with their views of society and culture tainted with hatred, lust for power and the satisfaction of doing a good job for their war lords. These children, products of the Aids epidemic have little or no parenting supervision having fallen to conflict themselves as either victims or participants in the never-ending ethnic-cleansing that is currently sweeping the nation.

The group aims to inform people all over the world about the plight of these lost and misguided children in hopes of making the future brighter for them. They are also engaged in the search for kidnapped or literally lost children who have disappeared from their residences or while on tour abroad. These cases have increased in these past few years due to the more relaxed approach people have with regards to the time they append with their families, taking their children with them in hopes of regaining the lost time they spend at work with the time they spend on vacation. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, there is an estimated 15,000 soldiers that fall under the age of 18 with some as young as eight according to the BBC. In conjunction with the many charities and non-profit groups who aim to alleviate the suffering of children they are changing lives even if does not encompass the globe. Let us all help in their drive to help children wherever they may be on this earth for a brighter future which they can call theirs.

Originally posted on February 10, 2008 @ 7:23 am

Community Service in Educational Curriculums

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In most educational institutions, community service is placed alongside the entire curriculum so that up and coming yuppies can get a glimpse of other things they can do outside that of contributing their expertise and working for a living. Exposing them to the people who have not the same luck that they have, like obtaining degrees and becoming bums is a good way of showing them that life is too precious to take for granted.

Community Service Philippines

Also, taking on community service work where they can do their share in helping various foundations and organizations that aim to answer the call of the needs of various groups is something that people may want to devote a part of their lives. It does not cost much for people to do so. A portion of their time and what they can offer is all that is needed. Everything is purely voluntary but the best way to see where they can help out once they are set out in the world and venture on things that they can contribute for a better society and world to live in.

[tags]community service, charities, organizations, foundations[/tags]

Originally posted on March 15, 2007 @ 8:07 am

Taking Time Out to Spend Quality Time with Charity Institutions

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Time is gold and money for most. But time and attention is important as well to people who are left in institutions that house most of the abandoned children and elders today. The attention that they seek is the attention that they lost from the day that they were left out in the cold for people who simply cannot face responsibility in the way that it should be.

Unconditional Love and Affection

Attention and time for these people do not need to be in the form of cash and goods. It is more on providing care and a crying shoulder for most since all their problems and woes are totally kept within them. Storing all of these and not being able to let out emotions is as hard as it gets. But people just don�t seem to care much for others since they obviously have not matured enough to take on responsibilities that people should be always aware of.

[tags]charity, institutions, foundations, attention[/tags]

Originally posted on March 3, 2007 @ 6:19 pm

Living the Life of a Beggar

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Beggars are often misunderstood as people who have given up on life and choose to beg for support in the form of pennies and loose change. To these people, feeling that they have given up any hope of getting their feet back on the ground is a normal response if they were asked up close and personal.

Beggars of Today

While sharing a nickel or a quarter may go a long way for them, it is hard to believe the people would simply lie over and die. But to some people in such an unfortunate situation, it is more than simple surrender but another aspect of personal proportions that have led them to lose hope and live the rest of their days in misery.

Money and support is not all the things in a person�s life. The matter of affection and care is also an invisible need that people tend to overlook. For people who fill the streets in rags and dirty clothes, a simple comfort and smile may eventually give their lives a new lease.

[tags]beggars, despair, hope, foundations, charities[/tags]

Originally posted on February 27, 2007 @ 8:01 pm

The Children of Hope of UNICEF

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All over the world, there are a number of children and abandoned kids that have wandered off into the world without direction. Some would not immediately understand why they followed such plights in their lives but if looked up close, it is more of fate rather than choice that placed them in such situations. By this, it means that children are not to be blamed for being existent but rather the mindless people who would care more about themselves rather than what they have brought out in the world.

Children of Hope

But to argue and continuously put the blame will not remedy the problem at hand. The best thing is to find alternative solutions such as looking for potential foster homes or new people to take care of them so that they may be put back on the right track.

This is what some organizations such as UNICEF aims to develop. It is not more about prestige, but making life meaningful to the younger beings that are totally wandering in the world without purpose.

[tags]unicef, children, orphans, street children[/tags]

Originally posted on February 13, 2007 @ 11:24 am

Looking Through the Eyes of Despair

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Eyes of Despair

A lot can be said about a person by one glance of their eyes. Expressions can be extracted from a person�s eyes and this is something that can be obviously connoted up close. Especially for children who are certainly innocent and are no experts in hiding inner emotions and feelings, it is but normal to get a prelude to what they are experiencing at the moment. It is simply something that is hard to find.

While the whole story of such plights of lesser fortunate siblings cannot be entirely assessed, it does not take a person to understand why such people would be found in that predicament. But people do not really need to hear their story as most would come from typical mishaps such as financial and lesser responsible people who start to become selfish at certain points of their lives.

Siblings are the victims of such selfish acts and bearing the brunt for them is totally unacceptable.

[tags]children, charity, foundations, beggars, streetchildren[/tags]

Originally posted on August 1, 2007 @ 5:45 pm

Orphans deserve Equal Rights to Be Happy As Well

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Orphans and people who are deserted for some reason by their supposed families should not be left out and forgotten. They should be given equal footing when it comes to enjoying the benefits of life and other social responsibilities that a normal person would experience today.

Orphans for a Cause

Such can be tagged as the need for equal rights and treatment. Orphans are human beings as well and they deserve to taste the benefits of normal people who have people to lean on in certain times. But for these people whom have been abandoned, it does not make any difference on whom or where they are. They deserve to be happy in the same way the people coming from intact families are happy.

Being an orphan is not something people expect, especially for children who have been deprived of their natural means of living. They are in this disposition for the reason that their supposed parents are unaware of what they have gotten themselves into. The obvious victim thus becomes the offspring, an insensitive act that cannot be corrected by these orphans alone.

[tags]orphans, orphanages, civil rights, abandonment, foundations, charities[/tags]

Originally posted on February 25, 2007 @ 5:19 pm

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson�s Research

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The best way to fight disease and illnesses is to be actually experiencing them and trying to find ways to combat them. Such was the motivation that popular celebrity actor Michael J. Fox that brought him to put up this foundation in May, 2000. Fox was diagnosed in 1998 as having a young-onset Parkinson�s disease. Instead of looking for a cure on his own, he turned to making it a foundation to be able to help and make research on how to cure or fight the dreaded disease that has accumulated over $90,000.00 to date.

michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

While there has still been no clear cure for Parkinson�s, Fox still believes that there is hope and that people suffering from it will eventually triumph against it. Donations are continuously racking in and such funds are the basis for making the aggressive research of the foundation advanced and possible to finally discover proper therapies and cures for Parkinson�s disease.

[tags]parkinsons, disease, charity, foundations[/tags]

Originally posted on March 7, 2007 @ 7:40 pm

Why People Devote Time to Charity Work

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There are people who would prefer to devote some part of their time doing good deeds in the form of service assistance for charitable institutions. Unlike organizations which offer good compensation and monetary packages for services rendered, charity organizations do not have that much to offer and are more of voluntary services coming from people who want to share a part of their time for worthy causes.

Children In Need of Charity

While not all people would perform such time and duties, such commitments are not imposed nor required for anyone. It is simply a matter of wanting to do a good deed or service. Practically all countries have their own charitable institutions that are open for charity work.

Such charity organizations include that of the �Save the Children� in the United Kingdom. Devoting much of their time to fighting for children that are victims of poverty and violence is something that can pay-off in terms of internal feelings rather than color of money for most people. Not all services rendered need to be financially rewarded. Sometimes the feeling of sharing offers something more that money can buy.

[tags]charities, job, work, volunteer work[/tags]

Originally posted on March 9, 2007 @ 5:16 pm