A Child's Advocate: Sharing my Web Resource- Save the Children

Monday, October 10, 2011

Sharing my Web Resource- Save the Children

I chose a different approach to reviewing my Save the Children website. I had noticed this link before but had never followed it. Up at the top of the main home page, under Ways to Give, there was something called a Gift Catalog. Gift Catalog? After clicking on the link I was able to find out that this was a place where you can directly purchase an item for a child and their family. But unlike regular catalog items there is no option for this fall’s latest J.Lo cardigan. These items are cows, donkeys, goats, a child’s education, and ready-made food to name some of them. I was really surprised that I would be able to buy such useful items up front.

There was also a link to their blog, and they have started a Twitter account as well.

Under What We Do, I found a title called Success Stories. Who doesn’t want to read something like this when all around are famine and heartache? I clicked on it and was able to read many stories of how Save the Children has been helping to save lives and bring hope to many, many families.

I read a story about a mother in Egypt who had three miscarriages because there were no health services for pregnant women in the area in which she lived. Can you believe that? She was unable to obtain care in the city because of the cost of getting there. She was a farmer’s wife and they didn’t have a lot of money. So she would just wait and see how long she could carry each baby. That is her child’s earliest care, in the womb, and he/she is unable to receive it due to lack of income, and lack of services. After three miscarriages I am sure this mother was wondering if she should or even could keep trying. She found out from word of mouth that Save the Children had come to her village and through their help she was able to carry the baby full term with the proper medical care, and deliver him. The inequity that she faced before Save the Children helped her is something that even the poorest in America do not know anything about.

http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6115947/k.8D6E/Official_Site.htm

1 comment:

Caitlyn MarktOctober 16, 2011 at 4:47 PM
Wow...I'm headed to the Save the Children website after I comment. My mother had shared information with me in the past year about being able to lend money to people in suffering parts of the world and this money gave them opportunity to buy the supplies they needed to get a business started or to fix something that their business needed to run. (I think this was something that Oprah had talked about on her show one day). But what great good we can do just by visiting the website and donating money. I'm headed there now.

Thanks for sharing.

Caitlyn
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