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There were 117 hard-working volunteers who showed up on a misty Saturday morning for National Public Lands Day at the BLM Campbell Creek Science Center. Volunteers accomplished a great deal of backlog maintenance projects on Campbell Tract.
Photo by BLM Alaska.
NPLD events took place all across Oregon and Washington. Thanks to all the volunteers that came out to help improve our nation's public lands!
More than 40 volunteers installed new interpretive signs, pulled invasive plants and weeds, cut brush, picked up trash. Overall it was a good day with beautiful weather and everyone had a lot of fun! Plus, a lot of visitors at the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center who asked about and learned about NPLD.
Photo by BLM Oregon/ Washington.
NPLD events took place all across Oregon and Washington. Thanks to all the volunteers that came out to help improve our nation's public lands!
More than 40 volunteers installed new interpretive signs, pulled invasive plants and weeds, cut brush, picked up trash. Overall it was a good day with beautiful weather and everyone had a lot of fun! Plus, a lot of visitors at the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center who asked about and learned about NPLD.
Photo by BLM Oregon/ Washington.
The girls wanted to do two boxes each for Operation Christmas Child. They have done OCC now for three years (since Sophia was 3 1/2 years old and Olivia was 1 1/2 years old).
This has become a tradition, and something the girls really enjoy doing (from picking out the gifts to sorting them to packing them in the boxes).
Colombian Red Cross office, San José del Guaviare, Colombia. A Colombian Red Cross employee hands over a new cooking pot.
© ICRC / C. Von Toggenburg / v-p-co-e-01151h / www.icrc.org
Christina Noble OBE is the founder and driving force behind the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation. Her passion for children’s rights is rooted in her own upbringing of homelessness and desperation.
In 1989 she set up the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Since then, the foundation and its projects have grown significantly in both Vietnam and Mongolia, it protects children at risk of economic and sexual exploitation and provides education and basic care for children in need. This event was an inspiring evening with a woman who has dedicated her life to making a difference.
For more information, please visit: Christina Noble Children’s Foundation www.cncf.org.au/
Event held Wednesday 3 August 2011, 6.30 pm
For information about Deakin University or the Master of International Studies please visit www.deakin.edu.au
The 2022 BBC Make A Difference Awards Presentation dinner at the Hilton Doubletree hotel at Brayford Pool Lincoln. A lovely evening, great to meet other nominees and some BBC editors and presenters.
NPLD events took place all across Oregon and Washington. Thanks to all the volunteers that came out to help improve our nation's public lands!
Fifty people spent Saturday, September 26, helping the BLM Oregon Coos Bay District plant a pollinator garden at the Dean Creek Elk Viewing Area. The volunteers planted over 300 native trees and shrubs, built a retaining wall and put up a fence.
Photo by BLM Oregon/ Washington.
NPLD volunteers help the BLM Idaho Pocatello Field Office clean-up Goodenough Creek Campground.
Photo by BLM Idaho.
This image was taken for a not-for-profit that has changed its named, focus, and mission to KEZA.
Official Statement on Name Change
"Sisters of Rwanda has been in operation in Rwanda for 2.5 years. Our original mission was to “ensure justice, equality and economic opportunities for Rwanda’s most vulnerable women”. Over the years we have learned better how to serve this amazing country and the people that dwell within it. We came here to listen and to learn, and as part of the natural maturation of our organization, we have grown into KEZA. Simply put, KEZA is the result of a 2.5 year pilot project called Sisters of Rwanda. “KEZA is a people-inspired luxury fashion house based in Rwanda. We buy top quality fashion goods from non-profit development organizations, generate income for the poor and help to establish Africa’s position in the luxury fashion industry.”
We still work with the very same 43 women that helped build Sisters of Rwanda. And our vision has only strengthened and become more strategic. Sisters of Rwanda has grown up, and we are proud to present KEZA to the world. Welcome to KEZA, “Where ‘they’ become ‘we’”. "
NPLD events took place all across Oregon and Washington. Thanks to all the volunteers that came out to help improve our nation's public lands!
More than 40 volunteers installed new interpretive signs, pulled invasive plants and weeds, cut brush, picked up trash. Overall it was a good day with beautiful weather and everyone had a lot of fun! Plus, a lot of visitors at the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center who asked about and learned about NPLD.
Photo by BLM Oregon/ Washington.
BLM Idaho NPLD volunteers clean-up the Menan Butte Sand Mountain Recreation Area.
Photo by BLM Idaho
This is Olivia with her completed box that will be donated to Operation Christmas Child.
This is an important tradition that the girls do every year in November, and it is something that they look foward to doing.
Blogged here: harvestmoonbyhand.blogspot.com/2008/11/children-giving-sp...
"If not you, who? If not now, when?" - Rabbi Hillel originally said it, John F. Kennedy made it famous. . #changetheworld #makeadifference #quote #quoteoftheday #quoteofthenight #quotes #nelsonmandela #johnfkennedy #jfk #selfless #selflessness
Thanks to the NPLD volunteers who helped make the Glade Run Recreation Area trash clean-up a success!
Photo by Abby Mattson, Natural Resources SCC Intern.
NPLD events took place all across Oregon and Washington. Thanks to all the volunteers that came out to help improve our nation's public lands!
Volunteer projects at the Stewart Pond area of the wetlands included trail maintenance and removing non-native plant species to promote access to the site, as well as habitat restoration for wetlands species. This work built on recent efforts by the BLM and other members of the Rivers to Ridges Partnership to restore this portion of the wetlands.
The West Eugene Wetlands encompass over 3,000 acres of wet prairies and oak upland habitat that were historically common in our area, but are rare today. This unique landscape provides for an abundance of native flora and fauna including the western meadowlark, Oregon’s state bird, and Lane County’s highest known diversity of dragonflies and damselflies. The wetlands also provide habitat for a number of rare plants including Kincaid’s lupine and the Willamette Valley Daisy.
Photo by BLM Oregon/ Washington.
Empty bowl.
Gisimba Memorial Center.
Kigali, Rwanda. Afrika.
June, 2005.
If you are interested in sponsoring an orphan at Gisimba Memorial Center, direct contact information is listed below.
Ildephonse Niyongana - Director
Damas Gisimba - Founder
gisimbacmg@yahoo.com
Gisimba Orphanage
B.P. 1433 Kigali Rwanda
Ave de la Nyarugenge
Nyamirambo
District of Nyarugenge
tel +250 08524515 or +250 08532596
Bank of Kigali 040-0013914-76
swift BK IG RWRW
Additional information can also be found on www.orphansofrwanda.org
The text below is from www.orphansofrwanda.org
"Centre Memorial de Gisimba (Gisimba Memorial Center)
The Gisimba orphanage, located in the Nyamirambo quarter of Kigali, is led by Damas Mutezintare Gisimba. Damas's father founded the orphanage in 1980 with 18 children living in one house. Damas took over in 1986 after the death of his father. During the genocide Damas sheltered over 400 children and adults in the small orphanage compound from the predations of the interahamwe [the Hutu paramilitary squads that carried out much of the genocide]. Though the orphanage was repeatedly menaced, Damas and his colleagues held their ground and did not give in to the genocidaires. He has been honored for his heroism by the Rwandan government and many other organizations.
The orphanage currently houses over 150 children. Ten years ago almost all were genocide victims, but many of the newer arrivals have been orphaned by AIDS. Because their parents were HIV+, a number of them are also infected."
PLEASE DONATE TO ORPHANS OF RWANDA: www.orphansofrwanda.org/getinvolved.php#donate
The 2022 BBC Make A Difference Awards Presentation dinner at the Hilton Doubletree hotel at Brayford Pool Lincoln. A lovely evening, great to meet other nominees and some BBC editors and presenters.
This image was taken for a not-for-profit that has changed its named, focus, and mission to KEZA.
Official Statement on Name Change
"Sisters of Rwanda has been in operation in Rwanda for 2.5 years. Our original mission was to “ensure justice, equality and economic opportunities for Rwanda’s most vulnerable women”. Over the years we have learned better how to serve this amazing country and the people that dwell within it. We came here to listen and to learn, and as part of the natural maturation of our organization, we have grown into KEZA. Simply put, KEZA is the result of a 2.5 year pilot project called Sisters of Rwanda. “KEZA is a people-inspired luxury fashion house based in Rwanda. We buy top quality fashion goods from non-profit development organizations, generate income for the poor and help to establish Africa’s position in the luxury fashion industry.”
We still work with the very same 43 women that helped build Sisters of Rwanda. And our vision has only strengthened and become more strategic. Sisters of Rwanda has grown up, and we are proud to present KEZA to the world. Welcome to KEZA, “Where ‘they’ become ‘we’”. "
The Richfield Field Office partnered with the Rocky Mountain ATV Jamboree to pick up trash off of public lands surrounding the Paiute Trail. A total of 212 participants collected 183 bags of trash from September 21st to September 25th.
Photo by BLM Utah.
Christina Noble OBE is the founder and driving force behind the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation. Her passion for children’s rights is rooted in her own upbringing of homelessness and desperation.
In 1989 she set up the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Since then, the foundation and its projects have grown significantly in both Vietnam and Mongolia, it protects children at risk of economic and sexual exploitation and provides education and basic care for children in need. This event was an inspiring evening with a woman who has dedicated her life to making a difference.
For more information, please visit: Christina Noble Children’s Foundation www.cncf.org.au/
Event held Wednesday 3 August 2011, 6.30 pm
For information about Deakin University or the Master of International Studies please visit www.deakin.edu.au
"Whatever you hold in your mind
will tend to occur in your life.
If you continue to believe
as you have always believed,
you will continue to act
as you have always acted.
If you continue to act
as you have always acted,
you will continue to get
what you have always gotten.
If you want different
results in your life,
all you have to do
is change your mind."
~Unknown Author
February 19, 2010
Shades of Life
shadesoflife365.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/the-power-of-mind/
Port-au-Prince, Haiti. People left homeless by the earthquake queue at the ICRC office to collect relief supplies.
© ICRC / M. Kokic / v-p-ht-e-00414h / www.icrc.org
BLM Idaho NPLD volunteers clean-up the Menan Butte Sand Mountain Recreation Area.
Photo by BLM Idaho
Youth volunteers from USU Eastern SUN Center and BLM Price Field Office employees gave the popular Price Canyon Recreation Area a face lift. Volunteers repainted tables in the large group sites, picked up garbage and learned about outdoor ethics while enjoying Utah's beautiful fall colors and weather.
Photo by BLM Utah.
BLM Idaho NPLD volunteers clean-up the Menan Butte Sand Mountain Recreation Area.
Photo by BLM Idaho
Thanks to the NPLD volunteers who helped make the Glade Run Recreation Area trash clean-up a success!
Photo by Abby Mattson, Natural Resources SCC Intern.
Youth volunteers from USU Eastern SUN Center and BLM Price Field Office employees gave the popular Price Canyon Recreation Area a face lift. Volunteers repainted tables in the large group sites, picked up garbage and learned about outdoor ethics while enjoying Utah's beautiful fall colors and weather.
Photo by BLM Utah.
Thanks to the NPLD volunteers who helped make the Glade Run Recreation Area trash clean-up a success!
Photo by Abby Mattson, Natural Resources SCC Intern.
Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A Haitian National Red Cross Society volunteer provides first aid following a road accident.
© ICRC / M. Kokic / v-p-ht-e-00549h / www.icrc.org
Resurfacing the BLM Eagle Trail leading to a Gunston Elementary School outdoor classroom near Lorton, Virginia.
Photo by BLM Eastern States.
Osh, Kyrgyzstan. An employee of the Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan hands out food parcels.
© ICRC / M. Kokic / v-p-kg-e-00041h / www.icrc.org
The children return to the orphanage at noon where they'll stay until 2. All help in some way with preparing, serving, or cleaning up. Today's mid-day meal is typical: boiled potato and red beans.
Gisimba Memorial Center
Nyamirambo, Kigali. Rwanda. Afrika.
June 29, 2006.
The BLM Price and Moab field offices joined forces with the Utah State Historic Preservation Office, the John Wesley Powell Museum, the Grand County Historical Preservation Commission and talented volunteers to document a historic stone cabin. This cabin, located in Green River, is scheduled to be nominated to the National Historic Register of Historic Places!
Photo by BLM Utah.
The lovely Danielle has been supporting Greenfleet since 2001. She thinks it's a wonderful thing and everyone should do it! Listen to Danielle talking about how living a legacy for her children inspires her to take action and see how you too can get involved and make a difference.
Join Danielle and the thousands already taking action, offset your emissions today: www.greenfleet.org.au/offset
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Transcript of Danielle's video:
When I got my car rego, many, many years ago, there was a flyer in there and that's the first I heard of Greenfleet. And I thought it was just a great idea!
I've always been an animal lover and so much habitat's been destroyed. People don't seem to see that. Like, they'll move into a new area and not realise that was once habitat, that's now not there and these animals need to relocate.
I've got children now and I want them to grow up and have the same respect and values for the environment. It's really important.
Just knowing that when I'm gone they'll still be a forest there, that I know that I've contributed to, that my kids or my grandkids can go visit.
Knowing that I'm planting, you know, that there's someone out there planting trees on my behalf but to actually see it, yeah, it's - it's unreal.
I've made my house as sustainable as I can, but on top of that I can offset our cars, I can offset our flights, I can offset stuff like gas and electricity as well.
I just think everyone should be doing it. It's easy and it's cheap. Why wouldn't you do it?
Outside Democratic Debates: Charleston, S.C. - July 2007
03 NOV. 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------>
You don't live in Ohio. You don't live in Florida. The chance is pretty small that New York will decide the presidential election. So: Why vote?
Here's why. This list is important—so please read it, and then pass it along. And remember: To find out where to vote, what you need to bring, or when the polls close, click here: www.voteforchange.com.
The Top 6 Reasons To Vote In New York
Or: Why It Still Means A Thing Even If It Ain't Got That Swing
Big margin = big mandate. The popular vote doesn't put anyone in the White House, but it affects what presidents can do when they get there. Want Obama to be able to actually do the stuff he's been talking about? Pass universal health care? End the war? Then we need a landslide.
The other things on the ballot matter! For example: Congress. Without more support in the House and Senate, Obama will have a hard time getting progressive laws passed. Plus, there are other important local races and ballot questions in some places.
If you don't vote, everyone can find out. Voting records are public. (Not who you voted for, just whether you voted.) Pretty soon, finding out whether you voted could be as easy as Googling you.
Help make history. You could cast one of the votes that elect the first African-American president. If we win, we'll tell our grandchildren about this election, and they'll tell their grandchildren. Do you really want to have to explain to your great-great-grandchildren that you were just too busy to vote in the most important election in your lifetime?
In New York, you can vote Obama on the Working Families line (Row E). Barack Obama will appear on your ballot twice in New York—first under the Democratic Party, and then again on Row E, the ballot line of New York's growing progressive third party. Voting for Barack Obama on the Working Families Party line counts exactly the same for the presidential race—and it also strengthens one of the most important efforts in the country to push Democrats to be more bold and progressive.
People died so you'd have the right to vote. Self-government—voting to choose our own leaders—is the original American dream. We are heir to a centuries-long struggle for freedom: the American Revolution, and the battles to extend the franchise to those without property, to women, to people of color, and to young people. This year, many will still be denied their right to vote. For those of us who have that right, it's precious. If we waste it, we dishonor those who fought for it and those who fight still.
Live your values. Love your country. Vote.
Click here for information about where to vote, what to bring, and when polls close:
Thanks for all that you do.
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November 2, 2008
Tomgram: The End of a Subprime Administration
[Note for TomDispatch Readers: As Election 2008 approaches, this seems like an appropriate time to look back, but also to say goodbye to all that. Yes, we have almost three months of the Bush administration to go; yes, so much that George W. did will be with us for an eternity. Still, the moment needs to be marked. I've done my best below. For new TomDispatch readers, in particular, let me suggest another way to mark this boundary moment: pick up a copy of The World According to TomDispatch: America in a New Age of Empire. It will bring you up to speed on this site, remind you of just what we've gone through since September 11, 2001, and offer you a sense of the ways in which our world has been changed that no new administration will be capable of ignoring. Tom]
Foreclosed
The George W. Bush Story
By Tom Engelhardt
They may have been the most disastrous dreamers, the most reckless gamblers, and the most vigorous imperial hucksters and grifters in our history. Selling was their passion. And they were classic American salesmen -- if you're talking about underwater land in Florida, or the Brooklyn Bridge, or three-card monte, or bizarre visions of Iraqi unmanned aerial vehicles armed with chemical and biological weaponry let loose over the U.S., or Saddam Hussein's mushroom clouds rising over American cities, or a full-scale reordering of the Middle East to our taste, or simply eternal global dominance.
When historians look back, it will be far clearer that the "commander-in-chief" of a "wartime" country and his top officials were focused, first and foremost, not on the shifting "central theaters" of the Global War on Terror, but on the theater that mattered most to them -- the "home front" where they spent inordinate amounts of time selling the American people a bill of goods. Of his timing in ramping up a campaign to invade Iraq in September 2002, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card infamously explained: "From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August."
Indeed.
From a White House where "victory strategies" meant purely for domestic consumption poured out, to the Pentagon where bevies of generals, admirals, and other high officers were constantly being mustered, not to lead armies but to lead public opinion, their selling focus was total. They were always releasing "new product."
And don't forget their own set of soaring inside-the-Beltway fantasies. After all, if a salesman is going to sell you some defective product, it always helps if he can sell himself on it first. And on this score, they were world champs.
There are thousands of street children in Butare. Everyday they scavenge for food. Some make their home in trash heaps boardering the streets. At night, these children burrow beneath blankets of rotted refuse, heads at odd angles to the highway.
Some of these children are orphans, others come from broken or abusive homes, a sobering fact which can turn street life into near sanctuary.
Butare, Rwanda.
Afrika.
July 8, 2006.
Thanks to the NPLD volunteers who helped make the Glade Run Recreation Area trash clean-up a success!
Photo by Abby Mattson, Natural Resources SCC Intern.
At the end of the day, everyone gathered for the famous dutch oven cook off feast. It was a great way to end a day of hard work.
Photo by Richie Bednarski, Friends of Nevada Wilderness.
Everybody is a minister, everybody is a doctor, and everybody in the world is a healer. All we’re doing on the planet is helping each other. - Neale Donald Walsch
More Neale Donald Walsch Quotes and Sayings
Picture Quotes on Be the Change
12 Beautiful destinations in Thailand to explore, besides Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Phuket
Original photo credit: 5petalpics