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Activism via the Web

Support the American Red Cross

Donate Online to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund
ou can help the victims of thousands of disasters across the country each year by making a financial gift to the Disaster Relief Fund, which enables the Red Cross to provide shelter, food, counseling and other assistance to those in need.

[triangle]Go to The American Red Cross Disaster Reflief Fund Donation Page.

Give Blood
To find out where you can donate blood, call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE or contact your local Red Cross. Your single donation can help save up to three lives.

[triangle]Go to The American Red Cross.
[triangle]Go to The American Red Cross Hawaii.

 

Save the Rainforest
Almost 2 acres of tropical rainforest disappear every second. Hundreds of species of birds, animals and plants are losing their homes as you read this. Visit The Rainforest Site every day to donate free land and participate in the fight to preserve the world's endangered rainforests.

Funding to purchase square feet of rainforest, paid for by site sponsors, is generated when you click on the "Donate Free Land" button on the homepage of The Rainforest Site. In the first month of this year, funds were generated to preserve 100 acres of rainforest; with your help, over 1,000 acres will be saved in 2001.

[triangle]Go to The Rainforest Site.

 

Fight Hunger
Every 3.6 seconds, someone dies of hunger. 75% are children. Visit The Hunger Site everyday to donate free food and participate in the fight to end world hunger.

Funds to provide cups of staple food, paid for by site sponsors, are generated when you click on the "Donate Free Food" button on the homepage of The Hunger Site. In 2000, daily clicking generated over $3.4 million for the front-line hunger relief charities distributing food to the world's needy. That's over 20 million pounds of food, paid for simply by clicking a button every day.

[triangle]Go to The Hunger Site.

 

The Child Health Site
Launched in October 2002, The Child Health Site focuses the power of the Internet on a specific need -- saving children's lives and improving the quality of their health. Over 200,000 children die every week from preventable causes, and many millions more suffer from preventable disease, cureable blindness, landmines and other crippling accidents.

In less than five seconds, visitors to The Child Health Site can click on the "Help a Child - Click Here" button and, at no cost to them, save young lives and help children stay healthy. How? Each click - free to the visitor - generates funds paid by site sponsors. The majority of this funding goes to The Child Health Site's charity partners. Funding from the site helps an average of more than 1,000 children every day.

[triangle]Go to The Child Health Site.

Donate Free Mammograms
43,000 women will die from breast cancer this year. In minutes, you can help give underprivileged women the life-saving gift of early detection. Visit The Breast Cancer Site every day to donate free mammograms and help us reduce the number of mothers, sisters, partners and friends we lose to breast cancer.

Funding for mammography screening, paid for by site sponsors, is generated when you click on the "Donate Free Mammograms" button on the homepage of The Breast Cancer Site. In the first month of this year, funds were generated to provide 200 mammograms, with your help the lives of over 2,000 underprivileged women will be touched in 2001.

[triangle]Go to The Breast Cancer Site.

 

Help Landmine Victims
72 people will step on a landmine today. That's one person every 20 minutes -- 26,000 this year alone. In just minutes, you can provide landmine victims with access to medical care, artificial limbs, counseling and training to heal and resume productive lives. Best of all, this outreach assistance is provided to landmine victims by landmine victims. Visit The Landmine Site every day to provide funding for victims' aid.

Funding for outreach assistance, paid for by site sponsors, is generated when you click on the "Save Lives & Limbs" button on the homepage of The Landmine Site. In the first month of this year, funds were generated to provide over 100 hours of victim's aid with your help, over 1,200 hours of help will be provided in 2001.

[triangle]Go to The Landmine Site.

 
The contents of Web Athenaeum is based upon the OPINIONS of the KCC Cybrarian. It consists of web sites thought to be interesting or useful.

 

 
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