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Q & A Q & A
- From: thelolos2
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Just wanted to say that I super love the new Q & A with the sponsored kids! If you haven't viewed it you should definitely do so, there's a lot of great insight in to what the children think of CI. You can get there by clicking on the little green dot in the top left corner of the LiftOne screen. I totally look forward to seeing this continue!
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- 2 days ago
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A couple LiftOne questions. A couple LiftOne questions.
- From: davelikesfish
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I don't understand a couple things about this LiftOne site. What is the differance between "Friends" and "Fans"?
Also, what is the "My Sets" intended for? What are "My Sets"?
Thanks for your time to answer me.
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- 4 days ago
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Re: Looking for an address!!! Re: Looking for an address!!!
- From: debbies
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Oops, I deleted the message for you sarah346. Hope you got my e-mail via LiftOne and that it arrived in time.
- 3 weeks ago
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- Forum: Q&A...
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karenturner
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- Since: 4 weeks ago
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Some news about Jhunie Some news about Jhunie
- From: Melinda85
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I have been sponsoring Jhunie since April of 2009. On his child/family info report it says his father is deceased and that he lives with relatives. His mother is a maid but listed as not living at the home at the present time.
I had read somewhere on LiftOne before about a child's parent that was working away from home and sending the money back to the family. The child's sponsor sent money for an IGP or something and that parent was able to return home and work. I thought maybe I could do that for Jhunie's family.
I emailed Debbie and mentioned to her about his mother not living at home and maybe there was something I could do to help them out. She said that it's not uncommon for women in the Philippines to move to another area and work and send money home to the family. So Debbie sent out a request for me.
Well the other day Debbie emailed with the news she found out and it just broke my heart. I cried like a big ol baby over it. Anyways this is what she found out for me
“Jhunie's mother does not live at their home with the child since she has another family. She works as a maid and goes home with her new family, though sometimes she visits Jhunie and his siblings. Jhunie and his siblings live with their maternal grandparents since their father died.”
I don't understand how someone could have the heart to do that to their kids. Not only has his father died but his own mother pretty much tossed his family to the side to have a new family. My sweet Jhunie is such a happy kid,after all that him and his siblings have gone through he still has the biggest smile and such a big heart.I love this kiddo and I am gonna make sure I am always there for him
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- 4 weeks ago
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Balance of Coexistance Balance of Coexistance
- From: thelolos2
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In helping people old and young with the very basic of human needs I am always torn in how to balance those efforts with preserving nature, coexistance. There are various postings on LiftOne about consumption, poverty, and Nat Geo, among others, that always get my wheels turning as inspiration comes from all around. Travel writings being one of my favorite topics I am always fascinated to see how the authors view and experience places abroad. Reading my book "Men of Salt" by Michael Benanav last night, I came to a passage that I couldn't stop thinking about:
"Only by working with the desert on its own terms, just like other plants and animals, have Saharan peoples been able to survive. The key to their success is an ethic of mutual sustainability: If the scant resources are overused, everyone dies...............
This, I saw, was about as far as one could get from American proclivity for outsized consumption. Unlike the Saharans, who know the need for balance with the natural world because they live in it, we live as though we're seperate from it, immune to the repercussions of overusing it. Yet with looming environmental catastrophe on a planetary scale, our circumstances are not all that diferent from the Saharans.
If their ethic of mutual sustainability is a survival strategy, then ours is a suicide strategy. If survival is the most hardwired biological impulse of all, we've got a short in our system. Our craving to consume, which in healthy amounts is critical to sustaining life, has hit pathological proportions, like a grossly obese person who not only can't stop eating, but justifies every bite. In other words, our culture is ill..................
As we have lost touch with nature, we have also lost touch with the instinctual intelligence that promotes survival through balance- the kind of balance so evident in the nomad culture. As Carl Jung once wrote about the human condition, "Too much civilization makes sick animals".
But what, I thought, of the environmental movement, the calls to conserve, to explore renewable sources of energy, to reduce pollution and greenhouse gases, to save animal and plant species from extinction, to preserve wildlands? It seems that there are still active vestiges of our archaic animal intelligence that know the need for balance.............
Saharans don't have this problem. They have no misconceptions about their place in the order of things- not because they are "noble savages" but because with so few resources they reap immediate consequences if they abuse them. And they have learned from past mistakes, such as overgrazing and overhunting. By living as subjects of the natural world, their awareness of the need for balanced consumption has remained astute. Rather than viewing them as poverty-stricken semi-primitives, we might do well to appreciate them for what they really are- masters of survival, from who we can learn to reconnect with our own instinctual intelligence simply by realizing we have it, and whos ethic of living in balance with the natural world we can emulate, not just for its sake, but for our own."
It is the sharing of varied viewpoints that helps to achieve great things. As I said, inspiration comes from all around and perhaps this has helped to get your wheels turning, I know it has mine. After all, we are in this balancing act together!
You can check your ecological footprint at www.earthday.net. My footprint quiz says it would take 3.9 planets to sustain life in my fashion of living, while my biology class average was 5 planets with one individual needing 8 planets, yes that was 8. I could use some minor adjustments. What's your footprint?
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- 4 weeks ago
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Greetings everyone! Old to CI, Greetings everyone! Old to CI, New to LiftOne
- From: chobby55
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So another social media site to keep track of, but it's worth it. I have been with CI for several years and sponsor 6 children. I've had a few leave the program and replacements are always there, so I can continue to contribute what I can for the children around the world in need.
I know, you're telling me you cannot afford more than one. It doesn't matter how many you can afford, one or more, each is one more sponsored child that didn't have someone to care about them before!
Like many, my life is very busy, so please don't be offended if I don't show up every day, although I do intend to connect with many of you over time to get some ideas to enhance my sponsorship experience.
I just love getting the communications from my kids and they apparently love getting everything I send their way. I travel alot for work and send each of them postcards from each place I visit. I can't tell you how many times I've gotten replies telling me they cherish those postcards and keep them in a box, or under the mattress with a few other treasures they call their own.
As I get a chance, I will let you know about each of my kids and how they have progressed! I am so proud of each and every one of them!
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- 4 weeks ago
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