I'm a google addict and a Windows hater, so what I'm about to share with you is hard for me to remember to do. I google everything, but I'm going to take a break for a bit and search somewhere else.
Until March 31, 2007, if you perform your web searches at this Windows Live Search site, each time you do Microsoft will contribute to NineMillion.org.
I found this while doing research for a new blog I am dedicating part of each day to - Stop Child Slavery. NineMillion.org is "a UN Refugee Agency led campaign to raise awareness and funds for education and sport programs for the nine million refugee youth around the world, many of whom are forced to spend years of their young lives away from home with little hope of returning."
I doubt it's ever been easier to help a cause like this.
That is, unless you're a hard core google person like me. I bookmarked this a few days ago, but I kept forgetting to use it. Old habits die hard. That's why I finally set my startup page to the Click4TheCuase Live Search site. I'm going to start all of my searches there until March 31. If I don't find what I want, I'll go to google and see what pops up, but the extra moment required to start the search process on live.com won't kill me.
Jeff Turner aka respres
Jeff, thank you. I'll do the same. A very simple way to help.
As for your site and it's mission. I almost don't know what to say. You're the second person I heard this from this week alone. it tears at a person's soul to think that this goes on. How responsible of you to tackle it. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
Maggie, I blame Oprah for making me do stuff like this. I'd blame my wife for forcing me to watch the Oprah episode on child slavery in Ghana, but it's safer for me to blame Oprah. Oprah can't kick me out of bed.
All...I'm not really happy with Live Search, again, probably just the comfort of "knowing" that google has it all. But it's worth it for a month!
That's a great way for them to generate hits...and a great cause is benefiting in the meantime. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Jeff, for the link. I will try to use it often.
By the way I'm finishing up a book about a kid forced to fight in the military in Sierra Leone.
Here's the link if anyone is interested: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374105235/bookstorenow79-20
Very powerful read.
Kip & Tamara, thank you for the book recommendation. I just ordered it from Amazon. Here are some of the reviews of this book.
Time Magazine
“A breathtaking and unselfpitying account of how a gentle spirit survives a childhood from which all innocence has suddenly been sucked out. It's a truly riveting memoir.”
Newsweek.com
“Beah is a gifted writer. . . Read his memoir and you will be haunted . . . It’s a high price to pay, but it’s worth it.”
People Magazine
“Deeply moving, even uplifting…Beah's story, with its clear-eyed reporting and literate particularity—whether he's dancing to rap, eating a coconut or running toward the burning village where his family is trapped—demands to be read.” (Critic’s Choice, Four stars)
There is so much horrific stuff going on in the world that it is mid boggling. As a former social worker ai saw enough really horrendous stuff in this country to sicken most people. Shild slavery is only one of a number of issues that really need to have the light of day shone on it.
I don't know how much is being donated per click. It doesn't really matter does it? SOMETHING is a lot better than the nothing that was there before. Unfortunately, this is one of the problems that money alone will not do a lot to change anyway. ait will be able to get some people out of really terrible situations but the hard work of change is in the daily task of helping people think differently, understand why and how there is a better way. A daunting task indeed.
Hi Jeff.. searching with the page :) great stuff. thanks for passing it along.
:-)