I wanted to introduce all of you to one of my favorite things. My FEED Bag. It is my diaper/purse/carryall bag and if I could have it surgically connected to my body, I would seriously consider it. It’s big, but not bulky, has side pockets that perfectly fit sippy cups and bottles, has an inside...
Category Archives: Hunger/Poverty
Donate Your Old/Broken Cell Phone and Save Lives
I recently stumbled upon one of the most brilliant and “outside the box” ideas I have ever seen to help people in developing countries.
Basically, by using recycled cell phones to create a kind of “911″ text message service, a med student from Stanford has revolutionized a hospital in rural Malawi. In just 6 months of...
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...
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...
Donate Your Wedding Dress
Ok, ladies. I know your wedding dress is special and I know we all have fantasies of our daughters wearing it someday. However, the truth is, we will never wear it again and more than likely neither will our daughters (I know, it sounds harsh, but do you know anyone who wore their mother’s dress???)....