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What is The Buried Life?

The Buried Life is a network of people answering the ultimate question: What Do You Want To Do Before You Die?

It was inspired by four guys on a mission complete their own list of 100 things while helping strangers do the same.

Want to share with others or see their lists? go to:
http://buriedlife.ning.com/

Nyumbani

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THE NEED

Lea Toto, Swahili for “to raise the child”, is a community-based outreach program providing services to HIV+ children and their families in the Kangemi, Waithaka, Kawangware, Riruta, Mutuini, Ruthimitu, Kibera and Kariobangi communities of Nairobi, Kenya.

Recognizing that the orphanage was unable to provide direct support to the growing number of HIV+ children in the Nairobi area, Nyumbani launched the Lea Toto Program in 1998. Initially based out of an office at the Children’s Home, Lea Toto workers established a support program through which HIV+ children could remain with their caregivers in their communities. In 1999, with funding from USAID, Lea Toto became a full community-based care program charged to carry out a project targeting HIV+ children in the Kangemi slums of Nairobi.

The Lea Toto project uses the Home Based Care (HBC) model. All HBC programs have one goal in common - "improvement of the quality of life of the affected through a package of comprehensive care for the client and his/her family". This package usually includes:

Basic medical and nursing care
Counseling and psychological support
Spiritual guidance
Relief for social needs
HIV transmission prevention education
Promotion of community empowerment/ownership
Self-help

Experience has shown that Home Based Care and counseling enables clients to live more positively and saves money that would otherwise be spent on hospital care. In this sense HBC is cost-effective, leading to reduced in-patient hospital stays and a reduced cost per beneficiary.

Other Program Services
• VCT (Voluntary Counseling & Testing)
• Clinical Care for home bound clients
• ART (anti-retroviral treatment) (since 2005)
• Permanency planning
• Training of Caregivers
• Nutritional Support
• Business development training/Income generation activities
• Providing Micro credit services to caregivers.

Program Goal
Mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS and decrease the risk of transmission through the provision of comprehensive home-based community care.

Objectives
• Provide 3,000 HIV positive children and an estimated 15,000 family members with high quality home based care and counseling services by June 2006.
• Provide a package of social support services to at least 50% of the 3,000 HIV positive children and their families
• To enhance the ability of targeted local communities to prioritize the needs of HIV+ children and their families and to carry out activities to meet these needs
• To provide the target communities with the skills necessary to negotiate support and maintain safe behavior

Program Challenges
• Poverty among the people served. Priority is given to basic needs: food & housing.
• Social Hindrances: Illiteracy, Relocation, Change of the caregiver.
• Cultural/Religious factors: Beliefs, Stereotypes and Misinformation about ART, The program is as equally stigmatized as the disease.
• Disclosing the HIV status to the growing children.
• Client inaccessibility due to security reasons.
• Possibility of accessing treatment from more than one ART provider.

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Humane Society

	About Us

The Humane Society of the United States is the nation's largest and most effective animal protection organization—backed by 10 million Americans, or one in every 30. Established in 1954, The HSUS seeks a humane and sustainable world for all animals—a world that will also benefit people. We are America's mainstream force against cruelty, exploitation and neglect, as well as the most trusted voice extolling the human-animal bond.

Our mission statement: Celebrating Animals, Confronting Cruelty.

We work to reduce suffering and to create meaningful social change for animals by advocating for sensible public policies, investigating cruelty and working to enforce existing laws, educating the public about animal issues, joining with corporations on behalf of animal-friendly policies, and conducting hands-on programs that make ours a more humane world. We are the lead disaster relief agency for animals, and we provide direct care for thousands of animals at our sanctuaries and rescue facilities, wildlife rehabilitation centers, and mobile veterinary clinics.

We celebrate pets, as well as wildlife and habitat protection. We are the nation's most important advocate for local humane societies, providing shelter standards and evaluations, training programs, direct support, and national conferences. We are building a Humane Wildlife Services program to provide homeowners and businesses with humane and effective solutions to conflicts with our wild neighbors. The HSUS publishes All Animals, a membership magazine, and Animal Sheltering, a bi-monthly magazine for animal sheltering professionals.

We confront national and global cruelties through major campaigns targeting the barbaric practices of dogfighting and cockfighting; abusive puppy mills where dogs are treated not like family but like production machines; the worst cruelties of factory farming in modern agribusiness such as confinement of animals in crates and cages; inhumane and unsporting hunting practices such as "canned hunts" of captive exotic animals; the slaughter of American horses for export to foreign countries where horsemeat is considered a delicacy; and the clubbing of baby seals and other animals for the commercial fur trade. Our track record of effectiveness has led to meaningful victories for animals in Congress, state legislatures, courtrooms and corporate boardrooms.

Our website: humanesociety.org

Accomplishments

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For more visit Wayne's Blog: http://hsus.typepad.com/wayne/

Sunday, November 25, 2007

a few tiny steps to help alleviate world hunger

Go to: http://freerice.com/
Click on the answer that best defines the word.
If you get it right, you get a harder word. If wrong, you get an easier word.
For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.

What else can I do to help end hunger?

Here are two key things you can do to help end hunger. Both are free and easy to do.

Add your name to the One Campaign, where several million people have already joined together “as One” to end hunger and extreme poverty. If enough people join, dreams for a better world can be made into reality very quickly.
The United Nations estimates that the cost to end world hunger completely, along with diseases related to hunger and poverty, is about $195 billion a year. Twenty-two countries have joined together to raise this money by each contributing 0.7% (less than 1%) of national income. Some of the countries have already met this goal. Others are being a little slow, but this can be fixed. You can see how the countries are doing here. You can print a letter to support your country’s participation here.

Hunger and World Poverty

About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds, as you can see on this display. Unfortunately, it is children who die most often.

Yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They lack the money to buy enough food to nourish themselves. Being constantly malnourished, they become weaker and often sick. This makes them increasingly less able to work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier. This downward spiral often continues until death for them and their families.

There are effective programs to break this spiral. For adults, there are “food for work” programs where the adults are paid with food to build schools, dig wells, make roads, and so on. This both nourishes them and builds infrastructure to end the poverty. For children, there are “food for education” programs where the children are provided with food when they attend school. Their education will help them to escape from hunger and global poverty.

Hunger and World Poverty Sources: United Nations World Food Program (WFP), Oxfam, UNICEF.

http://www.poverty.com/

These first few sites offer information following up on what is presented here on Poverty.com.

One Campaign

United Nations World Food Program (WFP)

UNICEF

Millennium Campaign

Global Issues

Next are listed many major international organizations that have related information about poverty, hunger, and preventable diseases. Together, these organizations comprise hundreds of thousands of men and women all over the earth. Many of these individuals work long hours in the fight against poverty, often in sparse or dangerous conditions.

Action Against Hunger

ADRA International

Africare

American Jewish World Service

American Red Cross

AmeriCares

Australian Overseas Aid Program (AUSAID)

Austrian Development Cooperation

Baptist World Aid

Belgian Development Cooperation

Bread for the World

Canadian International Development Organization (CIDA)