Ok. These are three areas I'm led to do something for the needy in.
I'm just sharing them as they're on my mind.
Plumpy nut
(I may have this spelled incorrectly) Plumpy nut is a nutritious food mixture (I believe it's peanut butter, confectioner's sugar, with perhaps some aminos or other nutrients) given to starving children/people when their malnourishment is so bad they can't injest solids. Or also if they're too little to eat solids. In a word it can and has brought someone back from the brink of death, even at a soul's most critical moments of malnourishment. Ever since I've heard about it I've wanted to help. So I need to research what I can do.
Clean Water.
I just changed my faucet's Pur water filter. In so doing I looked at the box. There's a short message about helping people with clean drinking water. Had seen on Ellen DeGeneres's show one day where Pam Anderson (and others) pack in with them when traveling these water purifiers that take the dirtiest, nastiest water and makes it DRINKABLE. Sometimes all people have is diseased or foul water. Can you imagine living with no clean water source???! I cannot. Let alone not being able to drink the fluid of life that our bodies NEED to survive? It's one thing not to have electricity, but no access to clean water is even more important.
Cows n goats n chickens, oh my
Instead of buying someone a present they may or may not like, use, or need...what if we buy livestock for those in need? Yes, they have programs like this. Baby chicks are probably the cheapest. *Food for the Poor is one such charity, and there are others, although forgive me but I blank on their names at this time. They have catalogs where you pick the level you can afford and VOILA! A family may get some baby chicks, or a goat, or a cow...life-giving livestock to help them help themselves. Chickens for eggs, which provide so much protein...a milking cow, perhaps for milk/cheese...the same with a goat, sheep, mule, etc.? Perhaps with enough left over to share or for a source of income for themselves.
It's simply an elegant concept. I surely don't need another doo-dad, or blender, or anything that sits upon my shelf. Friend, give that lovely present you would grace me with to one who could really use it. You're a good friend, and I love you for it. But your love is returned many times over when you give to someone else what I do not need.
*Disclaimer: I'm in no way affiliated with Food For the Poor, other than as a donator.
I'm just sharing them as they're on my mind.
Plumpy nut
(I may have this spelled incorrectly) Plumpy nut is a nutritious food mixture (I believe it's peanut butter, confectioner's sugar, with perhaps some aminos or other nutrients) given to starving children/people when their malnourishment is so bad they can't injest solids. Or also if they're too little to eat solids. In a word it can and has brought someone back from the brink of death, even at a soul's most critical moments of malnourishment. Ever since I've heard about it I've wanted to help. So I need to research what I can do.
Clean Water.
I just changed my faucet's Pur water filter. In so doing I looked at the box. There's a short message about helping people with clean drinking water. Had seen on Ellen DeGeneres's show one day where Pam Anderson (and others) pack in with them when traveling these water purifiers that take the dirtiest, nastiest water and makes it DRINKABLE. Sometimes all people have is diseased or foul water. Can you imagine living with no clean water source???! I cannot. Let alone not being able to drink the fluid of life that our bodies NEED to survive? It's one thing not to have electricity, but no access to clean water is even more important.
Cows n goats n chickens, oh my
Instead of buying someone a present they may or may not like, use, or need...what if we buy livestock for those in need? Yes, they have programs like this. Baby chicks are probably the cheapest. *Food for the Poor is one such charity, and there are others, although forgive me but I blank on their names at this time. They have catalogs where you pick the level you can afford and VOILA! A family may get some baby chicks, or a goat, or a cow...life-giving livestock to help them help themselves. Chickens for eggs, which provide so much protein...a milking cow, perhaps for milk/cheese...the same with a goat, sheep, mule, etc.? Perhaps with enough left over to share or for a source of income for themselves.
It's simply an elegant concept. I surely don't need another doo-dad, or blender, or anything that sits upon my shelf. Friend, give that lovely present you would grace me with to one who could really use it. You're a good friend, and I love you for it. But your love is returned many times over when you give to someone else what I do not need.
*Disclaimer: I'm in no way affiliated with Food For the Poor, other than as a donator.
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