Friday, September 16, 2005

Sending Smiles update from Lauren in Tokyo

Hello all, great news.

my project "Sending Smiles" sendingsmiles.blogspot.com can now accept credit card donations (as well as paypal and checks). This is thanks to the help of people at AidMatrix

We had the idea soon after the NOLA and other Hurricane Katrina survivors and evacuees were moved to shelters in Houston and across many states, to organize a drive to provide some activity books, crayons and coloring books for the families and kids that are going through so much stress and worry as they try to deal with the future after Katrina.

go to donations by Credit Card

Many of the larger centers are getting a lot of assistance and media attention so we decided to start this by targeting some smaller shelters or less well known ones first, this will also help make sure that our donation is not a burden for distribution in areas already overwhelmed with donations and gift items.

"Sending Smiles" from will start by partnering with Camp Gruber in Braggs Oklahoma

There are just over 200 children at this time, housed in Camp Gruber, (more may be on the way) and the aproximate cost of sending a small activity oriented care pack to them would be about 10 dollars per child. So for our first shelter and fundraising goal, I need to raise aprox. 2000.00 dollars USA.

please go to the website sendingsmiles.blogspot.com to read more
you can give by credit card go to donations by Credit Card

by paypal www.paypal.com account projectsendingsmiles@gmail.com

or by check, details on the project website.

thanks so much for your help. the goal is to raise enough for the first shelter by 9/30
please consider helping us!

any questions, email me
at lauren.shannon@gmail.com

*Lauren Shannon

3 comments:

  1. Deans are first!!

    (funny about joey, he posts at my blog, too, lol!)

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  2. Hi puddle. Yesterday I noticed you had someone who wanted you to know about a great web site about *kittens*. If I had nothing better to do with my time, I'd experiment with writing some really bizarre, off the wall posts just to see what kinds of spam they triggered.

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  3. In case anyone is interested, there is a new post by Cindy Sheehan at Daily Kos
    A Bright Spot in Bush World

    I got to Camp Casey III in Covington, La today, after getting up at 3am to head for the airport. Now it is 3am the next day and we are driving in a car to try and find a hotel to sleep anywhere around Jackson, Miss. I was prepared to be shocked by what I saw in Louisiana, but I guess one can never really fully prepare for such devastation and tragedy. After living in a country your entire life it is so difficult to see such callous indifference on an immense scale. When I reflect on how the mother of the imbecile who is running our country said that the people who are in the Astrodome are happy to be there, it angers me beyond comparison. The people in LA who were displaced have nice, if modest homes that are perfectly fine. I wonder why the government made them leave at great expense and uproot families who have been living in their communities for generations.
    (click for more)

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