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POPSBottle of Charity: 1 in 6 People Do Not Have Access to Clean Water
"Most of us have never really been thirsty. Yet more than 1.1 billion people on the planet don’t have clean water." "It’s hard to imagine what a billion people looks like really, but 1 in 6 might be easier. 1 in 6 people in our world don’t have access to the most basic of human needs. Something we can’t imagine going 12 hours without." "Put yourself in their shoes. Carry 80 pounds of water in yellow fuel cans. Dig with their children in sand for water. Line up at a well and wait 8 hours for a turn." "Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all sickness and disease, and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war." charity: water is a non profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. 100% of your donation this holiday season will directly fund sustainable water projects in developing nations. Each $20 can give one person clean, safe drinking water for 20 years.
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POPSCool Globes Public Art Exhibit: Hot Ideas For a Cooler Planet "Cool Globes" is public art with a purpose – to increase awareness about and motivate people to implement simple solutions in their day-to-day lives to help combat global warming. I am showing you the 2007 Globes from Chicago: To remind you that from April 17 to September 1, 2008, a selection of globes will once again be on display in Chicago, Washington, DC and San Francisco. Cool Globes debuted in Chicago on June 1, 2007 with over 100 sculpted globes. Cool Globes was launched in Chicago because of the City's leadership and dedication to promoting environmentally sound policies. For the 2007 globes, there was a charity auction of select large and mini-globes from the Cool Globes exhibit. The auction raised $500,000 to fund the expansion of environmental education programs.
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POPSActing Globally, Living Locally: Nurse Visits Over 60 Countries Simin Marefat, an unstoppable nurse: For almost 10 years, wherever she went, she saw enormous need and a huge deficit of resources around the globe from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan to Chile, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia. She organized a benefit in 2006 that raised $14,000: the proceeds helped Orphans of Rwanda to build a health clinic at Gisimba Memorial Center. She visited the clinic in June 2007 to see that the children all have health cards with their pictures and vaccinations and medications. They have a nurse who provides for them. She then organized a second benefit which raised $18,000: the proceeds will cover tuition for 34 Orphans of Rwanda to go to school. Fleeing Iran, her family arrived in the United States in 1986 to Hays, Kansas. It was that odyssey, beginning with escape, displacement, discrimination and eventual acceptance, Marefat says, that taught her anything was possible.
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POPSNurse Turns Home into Lower 9th Ward Health Clinic After Katrina, the Charity Hospital, which for generations provided care to the poor and uninsured, did not re-open. There are plans for new hospitals, but no one expects a system as extensive as the one pre-Katrina. Neighborhood clinics like this one will be the future of health care in New Orleans.
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POPSUnconventional Fundraising: Why They Chose to Disrobe & Pose 12 women, aged 70 to 92, posed semi-nude for the 2008 Ladies of Greenspring Calendar for a good cause: To raise money for a fund to help their fellow residents who are encountering financial hardships. The fund enables residents to remain at Greenspring, knowing they will always receive the care they deserve.
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