The Hunger Project in Uganda

from a good friend of mine today:-
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Hi,

This weekend at The Hunger Project board meeting I undertook to expand my investment in www.thp.org by underwriting two more epicenters in Uganda where I know further extraordinary results will be produced.

Traditional charity and service delivery are just not as effective as empowering women in poverty to take on their problems themselves, THP works this way and while being a non profit NGO it's now the largest leadership training organization in the world..

As someone who knows me please take a moment to watch this video and see if there is room in your heart to also invest or invest more, in sustainably making the world a better place. Even a small amount will make a big difference.




Many thanks,
Bill

Artkids - a short story about a favour!

A Favour

“Hans, we saw the ArtKids-exhibition in the Groningen-Hospital. My name is Leonie, and I am a teacher at the Mythyl school nearby. I’d like to ask you a favour.

Melany here, is a nice pupil, “chained” in a in wheelchair, and, … frankly speaking, there’s only one thing she likes to do and càn do: drawing. But, she feels quite useless. Can you and Tamara pick up some of her drawings, and paint them?"

Some weeks later I visited the school, and there was Melany in her wheelchair, with a big smile on her face.

She made large, very large drawings; her eyes were not so good either, so the teacher used to hand her charcoal and big unfolded paper.

Drawings filled with emotion! And,… quite simple and stylized.

“Well, very nice drawings”, I said. Melany seemed very shy then.

“Can I borrow some of your drawings?” I asked. A big smile was the answer.

Tamara made a painting out of one of them.

And I showed the painting, 60 x 200 cm in the classroom. Melany’s smile was too big to fit in the classroom. And it stayed there for about a month.

The painting inspired Melany and her classmates to paint. And, the mother of Melany bought the painting ( on a hire-purchase of €25 a month).

That all apparently stimulated Melany. And not her mother, but Melany herself now usually pays the €25 a month since she has her own exhibitions now, and earns money from her own drawings and art.


for more:- http://artkids.eu/
"from a drawing of a child to precious art"

Project Hope , using art to make a difference

My art has been chosen to take part in a Fund Raiser for Cancer patients.
Project Hope is a Million dollar house being built for Cancer needs and some of our art will be exhibited on Nov 29th, 2007 (at a ticketed event) and then Dec 1 - 2 to help raise funds for it. :)

Pls go to: http://www.amandatomasoa.com/event.html to find out more...

I lost a friend to Cancer in 2005 and am losing one to Cancer as I write... *wail*
I have no money but I have talent so I want to use it t help raise funds. Please help us spread the message.

Thanks!

Amanda

Caterina (leader of the Women with Passion in IT segment )
- was born in 1966, in a little village in a Southern region of Italy called Puglia.

She received a master degree in Computer Science at the University of Salerno, in Italy, a master degree in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, New York, and her Ph.D. in Information Engineering at the University of Brescia, Italy.

From 1992 till 1997, Caterina was a professor at the University of Brescia, lecturing courses in Analogue and Digital Signal Processes at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering. In 1998, to follow her heart, she moved to Vienna where she worked as research scientist at the Institute for Automation of the TU Wien. After one year in Austria, Caterina decided to move further north, and went to Belgium where she became manager of the Media Dept. of Starlab (a scientific research park / Europe’s answer to the MIT Media lab) and a year later the CEO and Chairman of Descriptomatic, a software company for Multimedia-on-demand and interactive TV solutions. After more than two years in Belgium, with her husband in Vienna and a newborn to take care of, Caterina decided it was time to reunify the family and went back to Vienna. Since January 2001, she works for Hutchison 3G, first in Product Implementation as Head of Application Enabled Services, then in Marketing responsible for the content portfolio and B2B Market. In October 2003, regardless a child on the way, she was appointed Director of the New Media Department.

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A Mother's Love

A MOTHER'S LOVE

A Mother's love is something
that no on can explain,
It is made of deep devotion
and of sacrifice and pain,
It is endless and unselfish
and enduring come what may
For nothing can destroy it
or take that love away . . .
It is patient and forgiving
when all others are forsaking,
And it never fails or falters
even though the heart is breaking . . .
It believes beyond believing
when the world around condemns,
And it glows with all the beauty
of the rarest, brightest gems . . .
It is far beyond defining,
it defies all explanation,
And it still remains a secret
like the mysteries of creation . . .
A many splendoured miracle
man cannot understand
And another wondrous evidence
of God's tender guiding hand.

~Helen Steiner Rice~


http://www.indianchild.com/mother1.htm