It's Friday and I'm on holiday, but I've been searching the net a bit today and have found 3 good, easy things to do (note: obviously there are many more, but I don't like really long blogs!)
1. Donate money to the relief effort in Pakistan (and Kashmir, India and Afghanistan). The death toll is already over 20,000, and expected to rise to 70,000 as more bodies are cleared from the rubble. 4 million people have been left homeless. I have a friend (Sadaf) doing some social work in Pakistan. She suggests giving money to a) The International Development and Refugee Foundation ( www.idrf.ca) or b) The Red Cross (www.redcross.ca)
2. Trick-or-treat for UNICEF, raising money for schools in Africa (www.unicef.ca). If you're too old to trick-or-treat, get your kids to do it, or kids in your neighbourhood. Canada has accepted the challenge to: build/rehabilitate 1100 schools, provide safe water and sanitation for 300 schools, donate desks and blackboards to 600 schools, and contruct 50 teacher training centres to train 6000 African teachers. Get the boxes, collect money, see African kids getting an education.
3. Write a letter in support of human rights. Amnesty International has campaigns you can join, or you can just take on an individual's cause. It's easy and doesn't take much time - www.amnesty.ca/take_action/
Sometimes we're led to believe that there's nothing we can do about the world's terrible state of affairs. Not true! But it will take (at least) a few minutes, and maybe a few dollars...
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