Human trafficking is one of the most horrific human rights issues faced by our world today. The number of people bought and sold in worldwide order to be exploited is estimated to be around 2 million, and nearly half of those are minors (ILO, 2008).The majority of victims are are female and are trafficked in...
Category Archives: Children
Be an Advocate for Children Enslaved on Cocoa Farms
Since I first posted about the issue of child slavery on cocoa farms (and promised not to eat any chocolate that was not fair trade), my eyes have truly been opened to the incredible scope of this issue and the blatant disregard for basic human rights shown by the major chocolate producers around the world.
Here’s...
Aid for Haiti
I can’t imagine anything worse happening to people who were already in a terribly desperate situation. Since we got back from South Africa on Friday I’ve been researching the best ways to help survivors of this disaster.
As much as I’d love to come up with some creative donation drive for food or water, everything I...
Donate Somebody Else’s Money
I recently got an e-mail from an Australian based company called Hotels Combined letting me know about their new marketing initiative. They decided that instead of spending their advertising budget the way they normally would, they would donate their money to different non-profit organizations in exchange for word of mouth advertising by us. When you blog about...
International Human Rights Day
Today is International Human Rights day. In honor of this day, we are gonna do some advocacy. Advocacy means “speaking or writing in support or defense of a person, cause, etc.” or “pleading for or on behalf of another”. In a nutshell, it is becoming a voice for the voiceless.
I found several opportunities for advocacy...
See Jane Celebrate- Chapter 2- “The Practicalities”
My previous post was filled with conceptual gibberish about finding a balanced approach to this Christmas season. I proposed that we could celebrate the holidays with our families, exchange gifts and enjoy ourselves (without slipping into a consumer-based, selfish sort of celebration that our culture propagates) while also using this time to positively impact the...
Food for the Hungry Child Sponsorship
Gary and I recently returned from a trip to Ethiopia which is one of the top ten poorest countries in the world. The scope of the poverty we encountered on our trip was shocking and horrifying. One of the programs we saw directly making a difference (with both short-term and long-term solutions) was Food for the...
Jackets for Foster Kids
Involve your kids in donating jackets for California foster kids in need.