The Cause
The number of children in the world that have lost their mother or father, are parentless, or have been abandoned is in the tens of millions. Chronic disease, bloodshed, horrific natural disasters, severe poverty, famine, unsanitary water sources, restrictive population controls, and societal devaluation of female children, have all contributed to this global tragedy of monumental proportions.
There are simply too many causes in the world, too many hurts and injustices, to expect any one person or family to have a heart, understanding and involvement in all of them. Through circumstances and intervention, people are given specific wirings for specific calls upon their lives.
There is certainly a distinction between personal causes and shared causes, though. There are some things that are so huge, so universal, that they absolutely require the mindshare and hands of every person on the planet.
What are the biggest issues of our world and generation? – HIV/AIDS, Malaria, gross poverty, violent religious radicalism, and the devaluation of women. They all cause, are part of, and envelope, a standalone issue that represents the single greatest burden (and opportunity) of our time – orphaned and abandoned children.
Children in the hundreds of millions. Children of disease, abuse and poverty. Children of hopelessness. Children of promise.
To address the orphan problem is to address a whole host of societal plagues. However a person is wired for specific activism, their goals and needs are met in the faces of orphaned and abandoned children.*
The Goal
In an effort to intervene, Something I Can Do is raising funds to build a children’s home through World Orphans by selling wall calendars for 2010. The small act of purchasing a calendar may not be monumental in and of itself, but combined with the efforts of others, it can make all the difference in the world in the lives of hundreds, or even thousands, of children who thought they had no hope.
Thank you for considering being a part of this project, and please spread the word and do the something you can do today!
*From the World Orphans web site, which is under copyright. Used with permission.