My dad has met Gary and has purchased his book! Glad to connect on an issue that truly has the ability to has the opportunity to change lives. Another great organization in Africa is solehope.org people from the states cut out patterns for shoes from old jeans a milk carton and quilters cotton. You then send the cut outs (usually sent in a large quantities as it is done by groups working together at "cutting parties") along with ten dollars per pair and this provides a job for someone there sewing together the shoes with a recycled car tire as a sole. It provides a child with shoes to prevent parasites called jiggers which infect many children without shoes and lay eggs and cause painful sores on the feet. The money also provides medical care to remove jiggers from those infected and also to fumigate houses to rid them. Hope to see more of you here and I will gladly support your posts and encourage others as it can be a challenge to make sure people will actually give the money to the charity instead of pocketing it and scamming other people for their own selfish benefit
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I had not heard of Sole Hope. Thanks so much for telling me about it!!
Jiggers are terrible, as are all the awful parasites around the world.
Yeah, my organization is a non-profit. I don't get paid and have been a part of it for two and a half years now and enjoy being a part of it. I have a hard time with those who are deceitful in what they do and keep profits for themselves in general.
I 100% agree. If the person hasn't built up any trust and they try to do a nonprofit charity post right away, it looks suspicious. But everything is visible here, so it makes it a bit easier to decide who you will trust. Please email me "@bendjmiller222" (quotes just so it doesn't hyperlink to nothing) whenever I can be of support to you and causes and I will try to make things visible for others. If I am able to continue being successful here and make enough funds to not need to get a job or at least delay i would like to visit uganda and do a thorough blog with great pictures and a look into the lives of those affected. I tried to raise funds for a woman in africa who only needed a van to transport her many foster children to school that she supports. There had been a lot of beheading's due to witch doctors valuing childrens skulls for some type of magic and if anything happened to one child the rest might be taken away. https://www.facebook.com/SerasCaringPlace/ she actually published a touching book and like so many others survived through the terrible the terrible genocide and hers is yet another story that breaks your heart. Anyway i tried to do a kickstarter to raise 1,000 dollars to support, but it never made a dime. Here it's actually quite likely people would love to help. It doesn't take any time to click a button upvoting. Kickstarter you have to process the credit card and hope someone will maybe browse and maybe support a little. I see so much potential for charities to be supported.