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I didn’t challenge many 43thingers, but I passed the link onto my family and friends, as well as our local chapter of Amnesty International. Together we have helped to raise awareness of child pornography. Hopefully, we can one day eradicate this.
Every little bit helps. I never thought of passing it onto Amnesty International. What was their reaction when you submitted the link?
AthenianPostbox is treating her body like a temple.
Our past efforts had mainly been focused on human trafficking and the situation in Uganda, but the opened up a whole nother realm for us. Most of the members of my group passed this link onto others.
I was scrolling through your entries to see if I could find any entries about your local Amnesty International group. Have I missed something? Have you posted anything? I’d love to hear about your efforts!
Happy New Year! ;)
AthenianPostbox is treating her body like a temple.
I haven’t posted anything concerning Amnesty. This is actually my first year with the group, and it’s very exciting for me. My focus has been finding a cure for AIDS and helping those with HIV/AIDS. Earlier in December I helped a friend who had organized a fundraiser for a local house that provided free testing and health care for those who are infected. We raised over a thousand dollars in a week from lunch-money donations.
There was also an event that we got involved with earlier in the fall. “Rock for Refuge.” If you’ve heard of the Invisible Children, this was a benefit to support them. If not, “Invisible Children” is a documentary that a few college guys produced. In it they detailed the lives of the children in Uganda who make a trek every night to a town where they can find refuge. If they don’t, these children will be forced into the army. Rock for Refuge was a concert whose proceeds benefited the Invisible Children.
I think in the spring we’re going to work with PeaceJam which is an annual thing where Nobel Peace Prize laureates come and talk and the rest of us try to make the world a better place. We’re going to come up with a workshop to talk about human trafficking, I think.
Anyway, if you haven’t, check out www.invisiblechildren.com.
Happy New Year to you too!
check out the you link you provided for “Invisible Children.” Actually, you’ve inspired me to do a bit more than that. What a wonderful and worthy way to spend some of your free time!
I’m not sure if Taiwan has anything like this, but maybe there’s something I can do online instead. I hope you’ll continue to post about your efforts A.P! I’d like to hear about your thoughts on these matters and of course, you would be keeping all of us here on 43things informed as well.
Good work!
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