Some of the many groups
working for the
GREATER GOOD of
humanity
An estimated 24,000 people
(mostly children under 5) die
each and every day of hunger
while tons of food lays rotting
in warehouses. Approximately
800 million people in the world,
suffer from hunger and
malnutrition, that's about 100
times as many as those who
actually die from hunger each
year. There is a 10% per
person, per capita excess of
food. (Hungersite/hungerfacts)
There's usually plenty of food to
be had for those who have jobs
and money to buy it. Most of
these people live in parts of the
world where there are very few
jobs. Far too many of us in the
developed world take our
situation for granted and ignore
those who we could easily help.
Please don't take your situation
for granted. Please help the
goodwill organization(s) of your
choice as much as you can.
"Almost anything you do
[to help mankind] will seem
insignificant,
but it's very important that you
do it." Mahatma
Gandi
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Working to protect human rights world
wide. Over a million individual
members, subscribers and supporters
in more than 160 countries &
territories.
BREAD FOR THE WORLD
A nationwide Christian movement
focusing on using the power we have
as citizens in a democracy to support
policies that address the root causes
of hunger and poverty.
The CARTER CENTER The Carter Center, in partnership
with
Emory University, is guided by a
fundamental commitment to human
rights and the alleviation of human
suffering; it seeks to prevent and
resolve conflicts, enhance freedom
and democracy, and improve health.
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES
Represents the US Catholic community
by helping people in more than 80
countries around
the world. Gives assistance based on
need, not creed, race or nationality.
CARE INTERNATIONAL
Delivers relief assistance to people
in need and long-term solutions to
global poverty. Provide millions of
dollars in aid to 63
countries each year.
CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND
The Children's Defense Fund exists to
provide a strong and effective voice
for all the children of America, who
cannot vote, lobby, or speak out for
themselves. Particular attention paid
to the needs of poor, minority, and
disabled children.
THE CHOPRA CENTER FOR WELL BEING
This organization's mission is "to
heal, to love, to transform and to
serve. We
are dedicated to changing the
prevailing worldview from one that
views human
beings as physical machines with
thoughts to one that understands that
we are conscious energy – Spirit –
disguised as individuals."
CHRISTIAN AID
Fighting poverty and injustice in
over 60 countries.
CITIZENS FOR TAX JUSTICE A nonpartisan, nonprofit research
and advocacy organization in the USA
dedicated to fair taxation at the
federal, state, and local levels.
Clean Water Action Working for clean, safe and
affordable water, prevention of
health-threatening pollution,
creation of environmentally-safe jobs
and businesses, and empowerment of
people to make democracy work.
Corporate Accountability ProJECT Pro-Justice organization
reporting on corporate welfare, and
corporate abuse of human beings
and the environment.
Corporate Watch Provides
activists, journalists, and policy
makers around the world with up to
date information and analysis on the
social, ecological and economic
impacts of transnational
corporations.
COVENANT HOUSE
Provides shelter and services to
children and youth who are homeless
or at great risk. This mission is
based on faith and the belief that
all children and youth have a right
to love, respect and genuine
concern.
COVENANT TO OVERCOME POVERTY
If you believe that the persistence
of widespread poverty in our midst is
morally unacceptable, please sign the
"Covenant to Overcome Poverty" today.
If a million more do so, the issue of
getting rid of poverty will be placed
on the national agenda.
www.DemocracyNow.org Breaking news - war and peace report - monday through friday - the news that corporate news outlets all too often do not share with their audiences. The hidden/other side of the stories.
DOCTORS OF THE WORLD
a non-sectarian, international
organization working in the US and
abroad to provide humanitarian
assistance to those in the greatest
need.
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an
international medical humanitarian organization working in nearly 70
countries to assist people whose survival is threatened by violence,
neglect, or catastrophe.
ESSENTIAL INFORMATION
Involved in a variety of projects to
encourage citizens to become active
and engaged in their communities. We
provide provocative information to
the public on important topics
neglected by the mass media and
policy makers. Founded in 1982 by
Ralph Nader.
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH Dedicated to protecting the
planet from environmental
degradation; preserving biological,
cultural, and ethnic diversity; and
empowering citizens to have an
influential voice in decisions
affecting the quality of their
environment -- and their lives.
HANDSNET WELFARE REFORM WATCH
HandsNet is a national, nonprofit
organization that promotes
information sharing, cross-sector
collaboration and advocacy among
individuals and organizations working
on a broad range of public interest
issues.
HEIFER
PROJECT INTERNATIONAL Heifer Project animals (and
training in their care) offer hungry
families around the world a way to
feed themselves and become
self-reliant. Children receive
nutritious milk or eggs; families
earn income for school, health care
and better housing; communities go
beyond meeting immediate needs to
fulfilling dreams.
THE HUNGER SITE Click
on "Donate Free food" button in the
center of their small page. Servings
of food will be donated for
every click (limited to one per day
per person). You pay nothing and
hungry people get fed.
INDIA FOUNDATION FOR RURAL
DEVELOPMENT
Alternative solutions for world's
largest concentration of poor people.
Engaged in promoting awareness that
poverty in India can be eliminated
quickly with alternative methods.
INTERACTION
A coalition of over 150 US-based
nonprofits working to promote human
dignity and development in 165
countries around the world. An
advocate for humanitarian aid to the
world's poorest countries.
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS
AND RED CRESCENT SOCIETIES
The International Federation exists
to improve the situation of the
world's most vulnerable people.
Provides assistance without
discrimination as to nationality,
race, religious beliefs, class or
political opinions.
THE JIMMY CARTER CENTER
Fighting disease, hunger, poverty,
conflict, & oppression all over the
world.
Jubilee Debt Campaign is demanding an end to the scandal of poor
countries paying money to the rich world. We are calling for 100%
cancellation of unpayable and unjust poor country debts.
JUBILEE 2000/USA Part of a world wide movement to
cancel the crushing debt of
impoverished countries by the new
millennium.
National
non-profit organization with
extensive online noise related
resources. Objectives: raise
awareness; create, collect, and
distribute information; strengthen
laws and governmental efforts;
establish networks;. and assist
activists working against noise
pollution
MERCY INTERNATIONAL-USA, INC.
A non-profit relief and development
organization dedicated to alleviating
human suffering and supporting
individuals and their communities in
their efforts to become more
self-sufficient.
MISEREOR
Aktion gegen Hunger und Krankheit in
der Welt
ONEWORLD
A community of over 200 leading
global justice organizations, under
one roof, with daily international
news on human rights issues.
OPERATION BLESSING
A non-profit humanitarian
organization that providing
short-term medical, hunger and
disaster relief and development
assistance to economically
disadvantaged people.
OPERATION SMILE
volunteer medical services
organization that provides
reconstructive facial surgery to
indigent children and young adults in
16 developing countries and in the
United States.
PROJECT BROTHERHOOD SOCIETY
Provides teens and adults, many who
are from troubled homes, an
opportunity to help some of the
poorest both in our own community and
abroad.
Physicians for Social Responsibility Working to create a world free of
nuclear weapons, global environmental
pollution, and gun violence. Uses its
members' influence within the
medical community and strong links to
policy makers to address this
century's greatest threats to human
welfare and survival.
RELIEFWEB A project of the UN Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA). The purpose of this
effort is to strengthen the response
capacity of the humanitarian relief
community through the timely
dissemination of reliable information
on prevention, preparedness and
disaster response.
SHARE INTERNATIONAL
Share International is documenting
the emergence of Maitreya, the World
Teacher and reports on "those
gradually-emerging patterns which
underlie many social, political,
economic and spiritual events, with a
view to stimulating practical action
for the rebuilding of our world along
more just and compassionate lines."
STOP
THE HUNGER
When visitors click here, sponsors
donate funds to America's Second
Harvest, the largest domestic hunger
relief organization in the United
States. In the US 34.6 million people
are hungry or food insecure.
TRANSMISSION MEDITATION GROUPS Transmission Meditation is a
group service activity which 'steps
down' the great spiritual energies
that continually stream into our
planet. This transmission process,
which makes the energies more useful
to humanity. Transmission Meditation
is a world service (Karma yoga)
and a virtual 'hot house' for
the spiritual growth of those who
participate on a consistent basis.
THOMAS
Information about legislation in the
U.S. Congress.
UNITED
FOR A FAIR ECONOMY
A national, independent, nonpartisan
organization that puts a spotlight on
the dangers of growing income, wage
and wealth inequality in the United
States and coordinates action to
reduce the gap.
United
Nations Development Program
“Our view of common humanity must
evolve beyond the borders of the
nation-state to where the fulfilment
of human rights in any one part of
the world is treated with the same
seriousness and given the same
support as rights in any other,”
Human Development Report 2000.
THE VIRTUAL LIBRARY ON MICROCREDIT
A repository of information on
alternative/non-conventional
financial systems and the informal
credit markets (ICM). Microcredit
approaches, community mobilization
and enviro-economic development also
find a place here.
WORLD BANK
Information about the activities and
projects of the world's largest
development institution.
THE
WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME
The frontline United Nations
organisation fighting to eradicate
world hunger -- whether it is the
hunger that suddenly afflicts people
fleeing ethnic conflict in Rwanda or
Bosnia or the chronic hunger
that affects the hungry poor in
countries such as Bangladesh or
India. WFP is the world's largest
international food aid organisation.
WORLD
HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Information about the UN agency's
activities in public health around
the world.
WhyHunger is a leader in building the
movement to end hunger and poverty by connecting people to
nutritious, affordable food and by supporting grassroots
solutions that inspire self-reliance and community empowerment.
Zero
Population Growth
National (US) nonprofit organization
working to slow population growth,
achieve a sustainable balance between
the Earth's people & its resources &
to protect the environment & ensure a
high quality of life for present &
future generations.
Children have the right, recognized
in international law, to good
nutrition. The world has the
obligation to protect that right,
building on both the great experience
gained and the scientific knowledge
achieved. Action is both possible and
imperative. (Carol Bellamy, Exec.
Director
UNICEF)
The
Tibetan:
The key to humanity’s trouble... has
been to take and not give, to accept
and not share, to grasp and not to
distribute... Humanity has never
really lived up to the teaching given
it. Spiritual impression, whether
conveyed by the Christ, by Krishna or
by Buddha...has not yet been
expressed as it was hoped. Men do not
live up to what they already know;
they fail to make practical their
information; they short circuit the
light; they do not discipline
themselves; greedy desire and
unlawful ambition control and not the
inner knowledge...This is the major
problem facing spiritual people at
this time.
(The Tibetan)
"Something is about to happen you can
rouse it, associate yourself at the
same time with millions of others,
reunited in a kind of a new communion
of saints, that through their power
and intrinsic creativity, makes
available a lever capable of turning
over the world to the proper side."
Brahma Kumaris
The day will come when nations will
be judged not by their military or
economic strength, nor by the
splendour of their capital cities and
public buildings, but by the
well-being of their peoples: by their
levels of health, nutrition and
education; by their opportunities to
earn a fair reward for their labours;
by their ability to participate in
the decisions that affect their
lives; by the respect that is shown
for their civil and political
liberties; by the provision that is
made for those who are vulnerable and
disadvantaged; and by the protection
that is afforded to the growing minds
and bodies of their children. The
Progress of Nations, published
annually by the
United Nations Children's Fund,
is a contribution towards that day. (FAO
Photo: refugee camp, Mauritania,
Africa)
"There
is nothing in your world, either
alive or dead, that is worth being
agitated about, except the
alleviation of suffering." (From:
"The Boy & the Brothers"; publisher
Neville Spearman, London,UK)
"When
we harm another we only harm
ourselves.... When a soldier dies in
Bosnia, part of us is slain. We are
both the assailant and the assailed."
(Dr. Stylianos Atteshilis, also known
as Daskalos)
"A
human being is part of the whole,
called by us 'Universe', a part
limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and
feelings as something separate from
the rest--a kind of optical delusion
of his consciousness. This delusion
is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal
desires and to affection for a few
persons nearest to us. Our task must
be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures and
the whole of nature in its beauty."
(Albert Einstein)
"The
universe is... an "ocean of energy",
that is considered, not in a
mechanistic manner, but as a whole, a
totality, a network of joinings. The
universe (God-Man-Cosmos) is a
unified organism, alive with a body
and a soul (the energy coincided with
the spirit). As one digs further in
the direction of the roots of
reality, the more one finds that all
is unified and is simplified. God and
the world, spirit and matter, soul
and body, intelligence and sense,
heaven and earth are an immense
energetic vibration in which
everything is connected." (from a May
7, 1998 article in the official
Vatican City State newspaper, "Osservatore
Romano", by Teresa Osorio Goncalves,
translated from Italian)
"I was
hungry and you gave me food, I was
thirsty and you gave me drink, I was
a stranger and you welcomed me, I was
naked and you clothed me, I was sick
and you visited me, I was in prison
and you came to me... Truly I say to
you, as you did it to one of the
least of these my brethren, you did
it to me." (Matt. 25:36,40)
"Throughout
the world there are men, women &
little children who have not
even the essentials to stay alive;
they crowd the cities of many of the
poorest countries in the world. This
crime fills Me with shame. My
brothers, how can you watch these
people die before your eyes & call
yourself men? ...the way out of your
problems is to listen again to the
true voice of God within your hearts,
to share the produce of this most
bountiful of worlds among your
brothers and sisters everywhere."
(The
World Teacher)
"Do
not store up for yourselves treasures
on earth, where moth and rust consume
and where thieves break in and steal;
but store up for yourselves treasures
in heaven, where neither moth nor
rust consumes and where thieves do
not break in and steal. For where
your treasure is, there your heart
will be also." (Mt 6:19; Lk 12:33; Th
76)
"Feed
your brothers. Remember that mankind
is One, children of the One Father.
Make over in trust, the goods of the
Earth to all who are in need. Do this
now and save the world." (The
World Teacher)
The
HUNGERSITE
Click on the
"Donate Free food" button & money
for food is donated for every
click (limited to one per day per
person). You pay nothing & hungry
people get fed.
http://www.stopthehunger.com
When visitors click here,
sponsors donate funds to America's
Second Harvest, the largest domestic
hunger relief organization in the
United States. In the US 34.6 million
people are hungry or food insecure.
"Almost anything you do [to help humanity] will
seem insignificant,
but it's very important that
you do it."
Mahatma Gandi
HEIFER
PROJECT INTERNATIONAL
STOP
THE HUNGER
"Throughout
the world there are men, women &
little children who have not
even the essentials to stay alive;
they crowd the cities of many of the
poorest countries in the world. This
crime fills Me with shame. My
brothers, how can you watch these
people die before your eyes & call
yourself men? ...the way out of your
problems is to listen again to the
true voice of God within your hearts,
to share the produce of this most
bountiful of worlds among your
brothers and sisters everywhere."
(