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POPSFantasy Flight: Granting Sick Children a Christmas Wish Children with a range of terminal illnesses from Hodgkin's disease to cancer are given a magical Christmas gift. United Airlines employees volunteer time and services each year to make it an extra special Christmas for such children, just to see the smiles on the faces of the children who are suffering.... "It just tugs at your heart," said Christine Smith, the head flight attendant, who has volunteered on Fantasy Flights for 18 years. "To me, this is Christmas," she said.
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POPSLesson of the Day: How Our Country Should Live More Like the Amish “In Amish life: principles of compassion, empathy, generosity and selflessness are central. When they run their community this way, it is admirable. When we try to solve our country's problems in much the same way, it is degraded and thought despicable.” “As children we are taught to take turns, to share & to treat others as we would want to be treated. These are basic principles that few people would deny are essential to being a kind, compassionate, moral person, whether a child or adult.” “We apply these principles to our personal lives, but when it comes to our country, our government and our communities, we start hearing things about "no free rides" and about how we mustn't become a welfare state.” "What we teach our children, what we challenge ourselves with spiritually, what we know is right in any other context...it all suddenly no longer applies.”
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POPS"A Camera, 2 Kids, & A Camel" The Work of Annie Griffiths Belt "As a photographer I have learned that women really do hold up half the sky; that language isn't always necessary, but touch usually is; that all people are not alike, but they do mostly have the same hopes and fears; that judging others does great harm but listening to them enriches; that it is impossible to hate a group of people once you get to know one of them as an individual." (Annie Griffiths Belt) "A Camera, Two Kids and a Camel" is a photo memoir of her life, that discloses the secrets of a peripatetic life...revealing in often hilarious detail how she managed to juggle two children, bulky cases of camera equipment and everything needed for a nurturing family life as she traveled to far-flung destinations around the world. An award-winning photojournalist and mother of two has lived a life we only dream about...to see and share the world with your family.
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POPSParents Come Together to Teach Virtues to Children of Many Faiths Classes stress the development of moral values as taught in all world religions, such as patience, honesty, and compassion. Parents work with the children to teach them to respect the different cultures and religions of the world. The moral basis of the program is to encourage children to look at their own behavior and how they contribute to a better world. "Parents of my generation feel incredible pressure to make our kids read earlier, to know math sooner and better, to get into the top preschools and then the best schools," "But what many of us forget is the other side of the character of our children, not just the academic side, but the spiritual side and their character side."
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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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POPS2008: A Turning Point in the Fight Against Poverty
Bill Gates, Bono, Queen Rania, Gordon Brown, Ban Ki-Moon, Klaus Schwab, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, and John Chambers issue joint statement at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. To those who are most vulnerable to climate change and those who suffer the most grinding poverty: Let 2008 be the year of the bottom billion! More than 2,500 participants from 88 countries are in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. World. Also, business leaders from 1,000 of the foremost companies from around the world and across all economic sectors attended the meeting. Since 2000, there has been some vital progress in the fight against poverty: • 3 million more children survive every year • 2 million people now receive AIDs treatment • There are 41 million more children in school • 2 million lives are saved every year by immunization • Polio, leprosy and neonatal tetanus are on the verge of elimination • African economies have been growing at 6% for the
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