Comments on: Your New Year’s Resolutions: Spare a Thought for Charity

By: Tendai Joe

Tendai Joe — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:16:12 +0000

i am a former streetkid now doing admin work for another streetkids organisation.I am so touched when ever this subject comes up and you can check what we are doing http://www.mylife.org.za we are in South Africa,Cape Town.

You can also check me out on Facebook Tendai Sean Joe

By: Mr Ghaz

Mr Ghaz — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:18:14 +0000

Excellent work from you! Well done ! It’s very informative and helpful article. must read. such a fresh ideas! Thanks for sharing

By: Anne Lyken Garner

Anne Lyken Garner — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:16:53 +0000

Thanks for the very supportive comments, everyone. I really do appreciate them.

By: eddiego65

eddiego65 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:40:14 +0000

Very heartbreaking! Thanks for a very unselfish reminder.

By: Ruby Hawk

Ruby Hawk — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:34:41 +0000

I don’t see poverty like this around us but I know it is here. We have food pantrys where people can go for food and we have clothes closets for anyone who asks. People who have very low incomes can get help with rent but many people fall through the cracks. Some have no income at all and no home.I don’t see them but I know they are on the streets.It is a sad thing.

By: Shergill

Shergill — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:32:39 +0000

Good article, as usual. Keep up the good work! We love to read your work.

By: Mockingbird

Mockingbird — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:28:01 +0000

Anne, that is such a eloquent article. I was planning to spend some time this year on charity and giving, and was thinking of ways that my writing could benefit various charities. I feel I have not done enough in the past to raise money for charity and this year is the time I plan to address that.

By: Judy Sheldon

Judy Sheldon — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:15:03 +0000

Anne, such an eloquent reminder. Our church had a benefit drive for our local shelter. There are many people who live within a short distance from us who are one pay check away from homeless, and then others who are homeless. It is amazing how hard it is to get back on your feet when you have no where to sleep. We have poverty every where. When I lived in New York there were children who lived in the streets because they were not allowed to go home. When we would call the authorities they would do nothing and the children would sleep under cars at night, with no food or care.
God bless you for addressing this.

By: Karen Gross

Karen Gross — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:29:29 +0000

Sorry, that address is http://www.crossroads.ca.

By: Karen Gross

Karen Gross — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:22:32 +0000

We certainly have no idea here in Canada what abject poverty is really like. Yes, we have street people here, but we have soup kitchens and shelters for them. For any fellow Canadians reading this: I challenge you to donate to “Treasures in the Trash”, a charity which seeks to rescue children in Uganda who live and work in the trash heaps. This charity is a ministry of Crossroads, http://www.crossroads.com