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Monday, April 23, 2007
Words of Wisdom
1. Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
2. A day without sunshine is like... Night.
3. On the other hand, you have different fingers.
4. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
5. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
6. Remember, half the people you know are below average.
7. He who laughs last thinks slowest.
8. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
9. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.
10. Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.
11. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
12. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
13. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.
14. How many of you believe in psycho kinesis? Raise my hand.
15. OK, so what's the speed of dark?
16. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
17. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
18. Every one has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.
19. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?
20. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
21. What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
22. I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
23. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
24. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
25. Just remember -- if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.
26. Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
27. Life isn't like a box of chocolates... it's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your bum tomorrow.
2. A day without sunshine is like... Night.
3. On the other hand, you have different fingers.
4. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
5. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
6. Remember, half the people you know are below average.
7. He who laughs last thinks slowest.
8. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
9. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.
10. Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.
11. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
12. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
13. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.
14. How many of you believe in psycho kinesis? Raise my hand.
15. OK, so what's the speed of dark?
16. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
17. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
18. Every one has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.
19. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?
20. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
21. What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
22. I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
23. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
24. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
25. Just remember -- if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.
26. Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
27. Life isn't like a box of chocolates... it's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your bum tomorrow.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Peru's 'Miracle Baby' Walks on Her Own
From HappyNews.com -- With all the tragedy that's been going on over the last week, this is a refreshing story about a little girl who's been given a new outlook on life...
"Peru's ''miracle baby'' walked around her nursery school yard Friday, ducking in and out of a plastic playhouse seven months after undergoing an operation to fully separate her fused legs.
Milagros Cerron, whose first name means ''miracles'' in Spanish, was born with a rare congenital defect known as sirenomelia, or ''mermaid syndrome,'' which left her legs connected from her heels to her groin.
Dr. Luis Rubio, head of the medical team that separated Milagros' legs, invited reporters to see her progress on Friday. He said doctors have successfully reconstructed the child's hips, knees and ankles and that she is ''doing well physically.''
But Rubio said Milagros _ who is called ''the little mermaid'' by Peruvians _ will need another operation in about two years to reconstruct and repair her urinary and sexual organs.
''We've gotten past the first stage, but it's not the last,'' Rubio said. ''There's a long way to go.''
Milagros, who turns 3 years old next week, now takes ballet classes and runs around the playground with her classmates.
In June 2005 doctors successfully performed risky surgery to separate her legs to above her knees. The operation seven months ago was to separate the remaining four inches of fused tissue just below the groin.
Rubio has said Tiffany Yorks, a 17-year-old American, is the only other person known to have undergone successful surgery to correct the rare congenital defect, which occurs in one out of every 70,000 births and is almost always fatal within days of birth.
Milagros' family comes from a poor village in the Andes mountains but Lima's municipal government has agreed to pay for her medical care."
Good luck today. Make it a great one!
"Peru's ''miracle baby'' walked around her nursery school yard Friday, ducking in and out of a plastic playhouse seven months after undergoing an operation to fully separate her fused legs.
Milagros Cerron, whose first name means ''miracles'' in Spanish, was born with a rare congenital defect known as sirenomelia, or ''mermaid syndrome,'' which left her legs connected from her heels to her groin.
Dr. Luis Rubio, head of the medical team that separated Milagros' legs, invited reporters to see her progress on Friday. He said doctors have successfully reconstructed the child's hips, knees and ankles and that she is ''doing well physically.''
But Rubio said Milagros _ who is called ''the little mermaid'' by Peruvians _ will need another operation in about two years to reconstruct and repair her urinary and sexual organs.
''We've gotten past the first stage, but it's not the last,'' Rubio said. ''There's a long way to go.''
Milagros, who turns 3 years old next week, now takes ballet classes and runs around the playground with her classmates.
In June 2005 doctors successfully performed risky surgery to separate her legs to above her knees. The operation seven months ago was to separate the remaining four inches of fused tissue just below the groin.
Rubio has said Tiffany Yorks, a 17-year-old American, is the only other person known to have undergone successful surgery to correct the rare congenital defect, which occurs in one out of every 70,000 births and is almost always fatal within days of birth.
Milagros' family comes from a poor village in the Andes mountains but Lima's municipal government has agreed to pay for her medical care."
Good luck today. Make it a great one!
Friday, April 20, 2007
Country's Clay Walker Doesn't Let MS Slow Him
If you're a country music fan, you'll find this story interesting. I didn't even know that Clay Walker had MS, but apparently, he has been dealing with the disease for over 10 years now. Here is the story courtesy of ABCNews.com:
"More than a decade after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Clay Walker's voice sounds stronger than ever on his first new studio album in four years.
The country singer's "Fall," filled with twangy honky-tonk songs and ballads that test his range, was released this week. The CD's disturbingly funny "'Fore She Was Mama," in which a 10-year-old discovers old photos of his mother's bikini-clad partying days, is already a hit."
"The black-hatted singer, who stays active by riding cutting horses and playing basketball, said his illness has not affected his work. He boasts never missing a show due to MS (or any other reason).
"It used to be a death sentence," Walker, 37, said. "I'm living proof you can manage the disease."
To read the complete article, please go to this page on ABCNews.com.
Make it a great day!
"More than a decade after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Clay Walker's voice sounds stronger than ever on his first new studio album in four years.
The country singer's "Fall," filled with twangy honky-tonk songs and ballads that test his range, was released this week. The CD's disturbingly funny "'Fore She Was Mama," in which a 10-year-old discovers old photos of his mother's bikini-clad partying days, is already a hit."
"The black-hatted singer, who stays active by riding cutting horses and playing basketball, said his illness has not affected his work. He boasts never missing a show due to MS (or any other reason).
"It used to be a death sentence," Walker, 37, said. "I'm living proof you can manage the disease."
To read the complete article, please go to this page on ABCNews.com.
Make it a great day!
Friday, April 13, 2007
Lauren's Third Letter From Honduras
For those of you who are new to Positive Pelham, a friend of mine named Lauren has joined the Peace Corps and is going to be blogging about her experience in Honduras over the coming months. To find out more about Lauren, you can read all of her posts by clicking here. She's a special person doing a very good thing. Here is her third post. If you'd like to send her a message, you can use this comment form. Make it a great day!
Disclaimer -- "The following article does not reflect the opinions of the Peace Corps or the US government"
So earlier I didn't get a chance to send my email with my pictures. This last week in Honduras was Semana Santa. It is the one week during the year where everyone takes vacation from work and relaxes. We had classes up until Wednesday afternoon and then we had the rest of the week off. We weren't allowed to travel outside our site but just having the time to relax was much needed. Being in training and classes 8 hours a day really wears us out... so Semana Santa came at the perfect time during training!
My friend Raphael lives with an amazing family (its the house I had Spanish classes in the first 3 weeks, the mom who gives me eggplant, and I am good friends with the four sons)....well this family has an uncle who lives 10 minutes outside our site...he owns 80% of the land that the US military base is on here so he is doing pretty well..he has a beautiful house with a pool that he invited all of us volunteers to on Wednesday and we went again Sunday for swimming and a barbecue...it was so fun to just lay in hammocks, talk and relax! Thursday I went with my family to a big park a little outside of Tegucigalpa, called Parque Aurora. We brought hammocks and food and just relaxed again. They had a zoo, pool, lake, and playgrounds there for kids. I met my host mom's niece and nephew, Daniela (15) and Alfredo (19) who live in Tegucigalpa.
We became really good friends this week and I am excited because now I have a place to stay when I need to travel to Tegucigalpa..especially considering my $2.00 a day salary won't be able to pay for a hotel! They both speak English so it was good practice for me to be able to learn new words I don't know. On Good Friday in our site and in Comayagua they do this amazing thing called Alfombras (rugs in english)...they make these beautiful paintings of Jesus in the streets using sand, salt, and dyed sawdust...they start making them at 10pm and work all night until Friday morning...they are absolutely beautiful. Then on Friday there is a procession, where people carry Maryand Jesus and reenact the stages of carrying the cross and a crowd follows the procession...in the end they walk over the rugs and ruin them. In Comayagua, people from all over Honduras come, because there are dozens of rugs made all the way down the streets and the procession is bigger...you should definitely look at my pictures of this because it is really amazing! Overa ll, it was a very tranquila (relaxing) week!
The week before we had a lot of activities...including learning how to make mud stoves/ovens and gardens. One of the leading causes of death for children in Honduras is pneumonia and resp. illnesses...primarily caused by people having really bad stoves in their houses with no/poor ventilation...the smoke builds up in the house and the children breath it in all day...so alot of volunteers write grants at their sites to get funding to make stoves for the people in their villages. So we learned how to do that which was really interesting!
This week we are focusing on HIV/AIDS support groups and midwives. We have been learning how to lead support groups in our communities for people living with HIV/AIDS and then on Thursday and Friday we are going to be teaching a group of midwives from local aldeas (usually villages in the mountains that are hard to access and far away from hospitals) on how to deal with emergencies during births....we will be focusing on teaching them how to stop hemorrhaging, which is the leading cause of death here related to births. Saturday they are teaching us how to resuscitate newborns....
Tomorrow or Thursday I have my last interview about my site placement. They had us fill out a form with our preferences..whether we want another volunteer at our site, what we need at our site (internet, elect, etc etc), if we would prefer to work with the ministry of health or an NGO....so our last interview is about what kind of things we want in our site...but to be honest with you, we find out our site in a week and half so I'm pretty sure they pretty much already have our sites picked out for us.
Helmith, our site placement director, pretty much already told me that I will be a first generation health volunteer at my site...which means their may be other volunteers there now (water & sanitation, business, muncipal dev., or youth dev.) but I will be the first health volunteer ever in this community....he wants me to represent Peace Corps well and make a good impression. So we are really anxious to find out our sites....but mostly I am excited...I am ready for training to be over but at the same time I have some of the best friends here I have ever had so I am going to really miss them. Well thats all for now...I'll let you know where I am going to live for 2 years when I find out!
I have posted many pictures on my website so you can look at them there!
laurengreenwald.spaces.live.com
Pura Vida
Lauren
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Thanks! - J. Anthony.
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--Lauren's Third Letter from Honduras--
Hey all,So earlier I didn't get a chance to send my email with my pictures. This last week in Honduras was Semana Santa. It is the one week during the year where everyone takes vacation from work and relaxes. We had classes up until Wednesday afternoon and then we had the rest of the week off. We weren't allowed to travel outside our site but just having the time to relax was much needed. Being in training and classes 8 hours a day really wears us out... so Semana Santa came at the perfect time during training!
My friend Raphael lives with an amazing family (its the house I had Spanish classes in the first 3 weeks, the mom who gives me eggplant, and I am good friends with the four sons)....well this family has an uncle who lives 10 minutes outside our site...he owns 80% of the land that the US military base is on here so he is doing pretty well..he has a beautiful house with a pool that he invited all of us volunteers to on Wednesday and we went again Sunday for swimming and a barbecue...it was so fun to just lay in hammocks, talk and relax! Thursday I went with my family to a big park a little outside of Tegucigalpa, called Parque Aurora. We brought hammocks and food and just relaxed again. They had a zoo, pool, lake, and playgrounds there for kids. I met my host mom's niece and nephew, Daniela (15) and Alfredo (19) who live in Tegucigalpa.
We became really good friends this week and I am excited because now I have a place to stay when I need to travel to Tegucigalpa..especially considering my $2.00 a day salary won't be able to pay for a hotel! They both speak English so it was good practice for me to be able to learn new words I don't know. On Good Friday in our site and in Comayagua they do this amazing thing called Alfombras (rugs in english)...they make these beautiful paintings of Jesus in the streets using sand, salt, and dyed sawdust...they start making them at 10pm and work all night until Friday morning...they are absolutely beautiful. Then on Friday there is a procession, where people carry Maryand Jesus and reenact the stages of carrying the cross and a crowd follows the procession...in the end they walk over the rugs and ruin them. In Comayagua, people from all over Honduras come, because there are dozens of rugs made all the way down the streets and the procession is bigger...you should definitely look at my pictures of this because it is really amazing! Overa ll, it was a very tranquila (relaxing) week!
The week before we had a lot of activities...including learning how to make mud stoves/ovens and gardens. One of the leading causes of death for children in Honduras is pneumonia and resp. illnesses...primarily caused by people having really bad stoves in their houses with no/poor ventilation...the smoke builds up in the house and the children breath it in all day...so alot of volunteers write grants at their sites to get funding to make stoves for the people in their villages. So we learned how to do that which was really interesting!
This week we are focusing on HIV/AIDS support groups and midwives. We have been learning how to lead support groups in our communities for people living with HIV/AIDS and then on Thursday and Friday we are going to be teaching a group of midwives from local aldeas (usually villages in the mountains that are hard to access and far away from hospitals) on how to deal with emergencies during births....we will be focusing on teaching them how to stop hemorrhaging, which is the leading cause of death here related to births. Saturday they are teaching us how to resuscitate newborns....
Tomorrow or Thursday I have my last interview about my site placement. They had us fill out a form with our preferences..whether we want another volunteer at our site, what we need at our site (internet, elect, etc etc), if we would prefer to work with the ministry of health or an NGO....so our last interview is about what kind of things we want in our site...but to be honest with you, we find out our site in a week and half so I'm pretty sure they pretty much already have our sites picked out for us.
Helmith, our site placement director, pretty much already told me that I will be a first generation health volunteer at my site...which means their may be other volunteers there now (water & sanitation, business, muncipal dev., or youth dev.) but I will be the first health volunteer ever in this community....he wants me to represent Peace Corps well and make a good impression. So we are really anxious to find out our sites....but mostly I am excited...I am ready for training to be over but at the same time I have some of the best friends here I have ever had so I am going to really miss them. Well thats all for now...I'll let you know where I am going to live for 2 years when I find out!
I have posted many pictures on my website so you can look at them there!
laurengreenwald.spaces.live.com
Pura Vida
Lauren
--
P.S. If you haven't signed up for the Positive Pelham newsletter yet, please send a blank email to PositivePelham@gmail.com with the words "Subscribe to the PositivePelham newsletter" in the subject line. I send out an email once a week with a recap of the week's posts. And, I take your privacy very seriously. I only use your email to send you the newsletter. No spam. I promise.
Thanks! - J. Anthony.
Monday, April 09, 2007
Two Houses - One Saves the Environment and the Other Wastes It
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One of the great things about email and the internet is that information travels extremely fast. The challenge though is to determine if the information is true or not. I've mentioned the website, Snopes.com to you all in the past. Snopes is the best place to go online to verify if an email or story you read online is really true or not. That being said, I checked Snopes, and the following email that was sent to me from a friend is true and quite surprising considering who the owners of the two houses are....
LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST.
HOUSE # 1:
A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern "snow belt," either. It's in the South.
HOUSE # 2:
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer.
The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.
HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore.
HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as "the Texas White House," it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.
So whose house is gentler on the environment? Yet another story you WON'T hear on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC or read about in the New York Times or the Washington Post. Indeed, for Mr. Gore, it's truly "an inconvenient truth."
As I mentioned, here is the verification of the authenticity of this email from Snopes.com: http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp
Good luck today. Make it a great one!
LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST.
HOUSE # 1:
A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern "snow belt," either. It's in the South.
HOUSE # 2:
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer.
The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.
HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore.
HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as "the Texas White House," it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.
So whose house is gentler on the environment? Yet another story you WON'T hear on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC or read about in the New York Times or the Washington Post. Indeed, for Mr. Gore, it's truly "an inconvenient truth."
As I mentioned, here is the verification of the authenticity of this email from Snopes.com: http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp
Good luck today. Make it a great one!
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Warm Welcome Greets Freed British Crew
The 15 Royal Navy crew members who were held in captivity by the Iranian government have been freed and are now on British soil. This is good news. I wasn't sure how this was going to end, so I'm glad they were released unharmed. To read the complete story, please go to this page on Yahoo.
Have a great day!
Have a great day!
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Website Promotes Direct Giving Over Charity Groups
Have you ever wondered if the money you donate to your favorite charity actually goes towards the people who need the money, or just to the charity's overhead? Don't get me wrong, charities are great and do an enormous amount of good work, but it would be nice if we knew that every dollar we donate actually goes to the people in need.
Well, one entrepreneur felt this same way. His name is Alexander Blass, and he has started a new website called, RealityCharity.com. In his own words, here is how Alexander describes the site:
"RealityCharity™ is the gratifying, new way to give™. RealityCharity™ is the world's first person-to-person giving website and social philanthropy community. We are creating a permanent paradigm shift in the world of philanthropy, fundraising and charitable giving. RealityCharity™ cuts out the middle-man between donor and recipient, allowing you to instantly change a life by making a direct and immediate donation to a specific person, family, cause, or organization of your choosing, who needs your help. We do not charge a processing fee or hold on to the funds. All the money goes directly to the recipient, immediately, less the minimal electronic banking fees we are charged to process the transaction, calculated to the penny.
People who need to raise money for virtually any reason -- in nearly 50 countries -- may create and post their very own personalized listing within minutes detailing their story and financial requirements, including photos and supporting evidence of their need. We employ rigid and sophisticated online identity verification techniques similar to those implemented by top financial institutions, and other top-tier web sites for which security is a priority, so donors can feel good about doing good.
After creating a donation page, Fundraisers may immediately direct their social network to their new donation page. Their friends and family can provide the initial beachhead of financial support, leave public messages of encouragement on the Donor Wall for others to see, and then forward the link on to their social network as well, and so forth, creating a viral giving effect. Generous people around the world looking to instantly change someone's life may search or browse the listings by numerous criteria, to find specific stories of real people and causes that resonate with them. Donors may then make an instant, secure, online cash donation directly to that individual using all major credit cards or directly from a bank account if they have a PayPal® account. The donations are electronically disbursed instantly and directly to the person or cause in need via our partner Paypal®, and RealityCharity does not charge any fee to the Fundraiser or the Donor.
At RealityCharity, we are passionate about providing a fun, easy, and direct way for people to help each other. Think of us as the "eBay of philanthropy."
Personally, I was wondering about fraud on the site. It seems that they have a system of verifying the identity of individuals who are requesting money, so you can feel comfortable that the person you are giving to is actually a real person. I'm sure a lot of people will try to buck the system, but at the same time, the site probably will help a lot of people who are truly in need. Besides, you can give as much or as little as $10. Give the site a visit and check it out for yourself.
Good luck and make it a great day!
Well, one entrepreneur felt this same way. His name is Alexander Blass, and he has started a new website called, RealityCharity.com. In his own words, here is how Alexander describes the site:
"RealityCharity™ is the gratifying, new way to give™. RealityCharity™ is the world's first person-to-person giving website and social philanthropy community. We are creating a permanent paradigm shift in the world of philanthropy, fundraising and charitable giving. RealityCharity™ cuts out the middle-man between donor and recipient, allowing you to instantly change a life by making a direct and immediate donation to a specific person, family, cause, or organization of your choosing, who needs your help. We do not charge a processing fee or hold on to the funds. All the money goes directly to the recipient, immediately, less the minimal electronic banking fees we are charged to process the transaction, calculated to the penny.
People who need to raise money for virtually any reason -- in nearly 50 countries -- may create and post their very own personalized listing within minutes detailing their story and financial requirements, including photos and supporting evidence of their need. We employ rigid and sophisticated online identity verification techniques similar to those implemented by top financial institutions, and other top-tier web sites for which security is a priority, so donors can feel good about doing good.
After creating a donation page, Fundraisers may immediately direct their social network to their new donation page. Their friends and family can provide the initial beachhead of financial support, leave public messages of encouragement on the Donor Wall for others to see, and then forward the link on to their social network as well, and so forth, creating a viral giving effect. Generous people around the world looking to instantly change someone's life may search or browse the listings by numerous criteria, to find specific stories of real people and causes that resonate with them. Donors may then make an instant, secure, online cash donation directly to that individual using all major credit cards or directly from a bank account if they have a PayPal® account. The donations are electronically disbursed instantly and directly to the person or cause in need via our partner Paypal®, and RealityCharity does not charge any fee to the Fundraiser or the Donor.
At RealityCharity, we are passionate about providing a fun, easy, and direct way for people to help each other. Think of us as the "eBay of philanthropy."
Personally, I was wondering about fraud on the site. It seems that they have a system of verifying the identity of individuals who are requesting money, so you can feel comfortable that the person you are giving to is actually a real person. I'm sure a lot of people will try to buck the system, but at the same time, the site probably will help a lot of people who are truly in need. Besides, you can give as much or as little as $10. Give the site a visit and check it out for yourself.
Good luck and make it a great day!
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