Ordinary People. Extraordinary Actions.
Unlike conventional charity organizations World Peace Emerging.com puts you at the front lines armed with your dollar so that you can watch it work. Whether it's saving an American from starvation, getting a forty cent vaccination to an infant in Rwanda, or giving a micro-loan to a family in Thailand you can follow your contribution every step of the way. If donating doesn't sit well with you thats fine, maybe you would like to write a letter of empowerment to one of the projects, or submit a new story lead. Anything is everything, and when it comes to saving the world it's a huge job, but everyone plays a part. Whats your?
Poverty is man made, but here's the good news it can be man fixed.
Join us on our mission to save the world.
One Person Makes All The Difference
Super Star of the Month: Tom Ritchey & Project Rwanda
A simple bike tour takes a left turn and becomes a mission to lift Rwandans out of poverty.Tom Ritchey's plan to tour the world on his mountain bike included alot of places, but Rwanda wasn't even on his radar. It was Dan Cooper, his long time friend, who suggested it. They set out in December 2005. Little did they know how life changing their trip would be.
Rwanda is known as the land of a thousand hills. It is green and lush, and tiny - just under 10,000 square miles. Close to the equator, it's warm and tropical, with bananas and passion fruits hanging from trees that are home to wild gorillas. The population of eight and a half million lives quite simply, in homes with dirt floors, only cloth where doors and windows might be, no running water, no electricity. The most densely populated of African nations, it is mostly rural with 80% of it's people agriculturally based.
Read more at www.WorldPeaceEmerging.com
The Good, The Bad, and The Adventure
Hans Rey & Wheels 4 Life Project
Exploring the world has been a lifelong adventure for former Mountain Bike World Champion, Hans Rey.And on these adventures he has seen the impact a bicycle can make to someone in severe poverty. In the west we use bicycles largely for recreation, but to a majority of people, a bicycle can be the means to get a job, go to school, or to carry wares to market. A bicycle can be a great gift that lifts a person up and into a position of strength.
Wheels 4 Life is his answer to this discovery.
Read More at www.WorldPeaceEmerging.com
Champion of the People
Cliff Judy & The Yard Of The Week Project
Down in South Carolina, the black communities can be pretty rough, with crime in the streets, drugs and other problems in the homes. These neighborhoods are a place where people see nothing but trouble and have very little hope for any other life. Clif Judy is a man who has a vision. He's found a way to give the people in the poor black communities a new outlook, one with pride and promise.Check out his story at www.worldpeaceemerging.com
Compassion in Action
Prosper and the JRMD Project
Prosper is a big man, over 6 feet tall with a commanding presence. His work as a minister and community leader was not improving the nightmare around him. So he took it on as a personal challenge to rebuild his war ravaged country of Burundi, Africa. With the help of Hutu and Tutsi youth Prosper and the JRMD project have built over 3,000 homes for the people of Burundi.Check out his story at www.worldpeaceemerging.com and Donate a dollar to peace.
Mission Accomplished
Susan Bradbury & The Sound Essence Project
Susan Bradbury is a soft spoken acupuncturist, someone you can usually find in her hole-in-the-wall office in Bellingham, WA, taking her time with patients. To sit a moment with her, she is so gentle that you would never imagine her trekking the wildest frontiers, working to alleviate poverty and rescue a dying culture. But she lives a second life. In a chance meeting just days after her return from Mongolia, Susan told us the story of her month long journey across the roadless tundra. She shared with us her amazing submersion into an ancient culture, and the projects she launched that just might save it.Check out her story at www.worldpeaceemerging.com also, follow her blog at Ambassador for Peace. What's Blog'n
Compassion
If One Person Makes All The Difference Then Two Can Change The World
The 100 Friends Project started 18 years ago, in 1989. The idea is very simple. Every year many people contribute to the project and I take the money to Third World Countries and I go looking for the neediest people I can find. Then I put the money to work in the most compassionate, appropriate, culturally compatible, constructive and practical manner possible. You put the donation into my hands and I put the funds directly into the hands of the needy individual or family, or a small trusted grassroots organization helping them.My plans for 2007 are to build two schools, one in Afghanistan and one in Cambodia. I am also planning to help the Tuareg Nomads in Niger in 2008 with schools, wells, food banks and health clinics. A visit to Malawi is also in the works. These are two of the poorest countries on Earth. My goal is to raise and then bring $25,000 to Africa...
Follow Marc Gold as he treks around the globe saving the lives of thousands, getting a true picture of exactly what one man can accomplish. Read more at www.worldpeaceemerging.com
Donate A Dollar To Peace
It is really that simple!
If you and a ten of your friends decided that donating one dollar to peace was something you could afford, would you?one dollar can truly make a difference in someones life, and we show you exactly! where that dollar goes.
When you donate a dollar to peace we show you who's lives you've changed, with the money we raised together. Each project you donate to will be able to expand their reach and save more lives.Together we can change the world!
Go to Donate A dollar To Peace find a story and click the donate button.
People
These are the Races. Beautiful Faces.
Rwanda
Darfur
Bangladesh
Sudan
Ireland
California
New Mexico
Pakistan
Mongolia
Shanghi
Cambodia
Nanchang
Russia
Change
Action. Reaction.
Together
If you know someone with an amazing project let us know?
Their are hundreds of thousands of projects world wide. Projects that are RIGHT NOW! alleviating poverty, and if brought to the limelight these projects could save more lives. We're on a mission to put an end to needless suffering, to show the world that one person can change the lives of thousands. Help us find these extraordinary people!
RinchenChodron wrote...
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Posted July 07, 2008
Do you know what made great men great? It's those little things and the classic example is the one you've written here about a simple bike tour! We all can do little things to make things big! Another example I can share is this site that offer recycled checks at half the price! You save money, you save Mother Earth! My sister once bought her own Fairy personal checks and they are made of recycled material! Very awesome pictures, too! I believe she supplied her own images to put on those checks! You should try to take a look into it and for sure, you will love what you will see from there! Thanks for the info, by the way!
Posted June 22, 2008
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Posted August 19, 2007
Passion
People on a mission Daring to save the World!
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Girl Powered Peace
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It is now universally agreed in aid organizations worldwide that empowering the women of a community will empower the children and the men as well. Women are caretakers and nurturers, watching over others. They tend to use practical wisdom to make de...
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Free gardening books for teachers
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Teachers Interested in Gardening to Receive Free Gardening Book The Food for Everyone Foundation announced their intention to donate a digital copy of the world-renowned Dr. Jacob R. Mittleider’s classic “Six Steps to Successful Gardening...
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The Peace Place
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World Peace Emerging is our website where we tell the stories of people saving the world. What is peace? Disarmament is not Peace. I believe peace is people working together to care for one another and our planet.
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Sustainable Gardening Non-Profit changing the world one garden at a time.
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The Food for Everyone Foundation is a Non-Profit organization that travels the world teaching people in impoverished areas how to grow gardens which will yield five to ten times more than traditional gardening methods. Perhaps the most beneficial asp...
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