Day 10

The research continues...
Today I spoke to my brother and found out the name of the book about the crisis in Sudan, it's called "Not On Our Watch" it's also an organization and the founders are Don Cheadle, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, David Pressman and Jerry Weintraub. The author of the book is Don Cheadle. They actually suggest writing President Obama by going on to The White House website! I think I'm actually gonna do this tomorrow! I know most people think that writing is insignificant but its kinda like voting, every vote counts, it all adds up.
I really cant seem to understand why the world isn't doing something to stop this, this should honestly be the global's number one priority!!! I believe that an animistic like act shouldn't be happening in 2010. We, as a world have came a long way let's not stop and not give up! Yesterday I spoke to a dear friend, who's in her 30's and she had no idea this was even going on. Help with me to cause awareness the more I read about this, the more it breaks my heart. If you are interested in actually writing President Obama about the matter the link is at the bottom of the page.
Today I also found out more information about the specific volunteer program I want to join, which I have till the end of the week to decide on. The program is 5 months and will start in March, so for the meantime I decided to look for a part time job that would be related to my project. So I went on a job interview today at this brand new place that opened up in Encino, called Salt Chalet. It's actually pretty interesting, helps people and is Eco-Friendly. What it is, is basically a room that's made of 100% salt, the walls, ceiling, and the floor as salt like sand, and it basically helps Adult and Children with breathing problems such as asthma, wheezing, snoring, smoker's cough, skin problems and many more. During the 45-mins treatment session, salt aerosol is scattered into the air for the patients to breathe in. These aerosolized microparticles can penetrate into every corner of the bronchi and deposit upon the surface, destroying bacteria and fungi. PRETTY NEATO! It's a very relaxing atmosper and a beautiful place. Hope I get the job!

Here is more info:


As far as researching goes I found out today about different children's organizations. Some I've never heard about and others I wanted to get more educated about. I think the one that really caught my attention was "Children of the Night" this is a non-profit organization. They assist children between the ages
of 11 and 17 who are forced to prostitute on the streets for food and a place to sleep. AHHHHHH this is just horrible! I take this category of crisis exteremmmly personal, anything that has to do with women being raped or children trafficking I just can't handle. If I had to choice 1 category of which to help the most it would be this. I think also watching the movie Taken had a big effect on me, after watching that movie I had 2 nightmares in one week!
This organization gives these victims a home. Children who first arrive are given the individual attention he or she needs. Youngsters are assigned to private bedrooms if possible (each with its own bath) until they get a chance to settle in, and receive fresh clothing and hygiene kits. Each child is designated a Primary Caseworker who coordinates medical care, psychological care, academic assessments and other social services as needed. Residents follow a highly structured program that includes attending an on-site school. With the help of caseworkers, each youngster formulates a “life plan” and attends independent living classes. This is really an amazing program that seems to really go through everything these children need, I definitely want to volunteer and donate to this organization.
Well turn out Disney is actually doing alot of give aways this year. They are rewarding volunteers with a free pass to Disneyland or Disneyworld with there Give a Day, Get a Disney Day campaign. Children of the Night is one of the many on the list. If your interested in this, you should definitely check it out as well, there is so many different volunteers jobs all over, some only take 2hrs.
My #1 favorable children trafficking organization is love146 but I will speak about them on another day.
NIGHTTTTTT!!!!


Not On Our Watch: www.notonourwatchproject.org
Write Obama: www.whitehouse.gov/contact
Salt Chalet: www.saltchalet.com
Children of the Night: www.childrenofthenight.org
Disney's Give a Day, Get a Disney Day: www.disneyparks.disney.go.com/disneyparks/en_US/WhatWillYouCelebrate/index?name=Give-A-Day-Get-A-Disney-Day

Day 9

You know there are some days that I just get lazy or busy and haven't done a single act for humanity until really late at night or sometimes I do, but I get too tired to write about it. But then I remember how important this is and I get this feeling inside of me, like a rush of caffeine, although a second again my eyes were gonna shut and I just know I cant stop. I really cant go to sleep without feeling like I helped the world in some way. I'm really passionate and driven about this project.
This entire month I've been doing so much reading about so many different things such as religion, countries, charities, global awareness and nature. I've been learning sooo much and I think that even if you personally take the time just for 30mins a day to research about one of these subjects, then you've helped educate yourself and in return you helped the world. I think its so incredibly important to just be aware and never ever stop wanting to learn!
Today I had a very relaxing Saturday day, I stayed at home with close family & friends, we laughed, talked, ate, and I actually had a few very intriguing conversation about life, Israel and Religion. Meanwhile we watched the history channel all day. I watched a few different shows, one about was 2012, another was what the world is gonna be like in details from now until 2100, and then other show was about how the world would be if all mankind died today and how the world would look and be, all very interesting shows.
I believe that if teens/young adults watched as much of the History channel as they watched MTV, we would all be living a very different and more fulfilling life. History has always been my favorite subject since 6th grade. I find it extremely intriguing how often History repeats itself no matter how many times a story is told, that's kinda what today's entry is about.
Genocide.
Many of us quickly think of the Holocaust in WWII, but what most people aren't aware is that it's happening NOW in Sudan.
Over this summer when I went visiting in Israel I went to my hometown called Arad. I heard that a LOT of the Sudonin were mainly in Arad. Now before this, I had never really heard anything about Sudan and all the madness that's been going around in the past few years. I was told from my family this summer, that Sudonin literally walked from Sudan to Egypt and the Arabs killed a lot of them on the boarder and that they came to Israel and being the supportive country that we are, we let them stay because they have no other place to go, otherwise they die. A lot of Israeli's were complaining and protesting against them because the Sudonim came to Israel ANGRY, scarred, ill, starving, homeless and empty. so they caused problems by raising the crime rate, stealing, rubbing, ect.
I actually saw a few in Arad and they were insanely tall, both women and men, I would say were all 6 feet and up, SKINNY and very dark, darker then most Africans.
Now I'm a very compassionate person and I felt terrible because walking around my small town you saw many and you looked into their eyes and you can see such hurt and sadness in their eyes.
My brother last semester actually took a genocide class and we discussed a lot of the issues, his class main focus was Sudan, he also read an amazing book which I really wanna read, I'll find out the name of it and I highly recommend you read it.
Well earlier during the day I was shown something pretty neat on Google Earth, I've seen Google Earth before but never really downloaded it and played around with all its cool features. Tonight I played around with the "Layers" I clicked "Ocean" and it seriously shows you almost every sunken ships location, date, story, photos, videos, its pretty amazing and thennnnnn I saw a "Global Awareness" layer, so I clicked it, which was like the greatest idea EVERRR! lol It started showing me all the big organizations all around the world and all their projects that they are currently working on. So I started looking into California and then figured that there would be a lot of things going on in Africa so I went to check it out and what I saw was really crazy! First it showed an orange section in bold and it read "Crisis in Darfur". When I zoomed in, it actually showed alllll the section in the towns of Darfur that were completely burned to pieces with people in them and I mean you look at this and your heart just dropped as the fire signs expand on your screen, it really broke my heart.



I mean this is just INSANE people and happening right now!

Between 2003 and 2005, at least 200,000 civilians died from violence, disease, and starvation, tens of thousands of women were raped, and more than 2.5 million people driven from their homes following attacks carried out by Sudanese government soldiers and militias! I mean this is JUST TERRRRIBLEEEEEE!!!! Currently more then a half a million people have lost their lives. =(


There are a million more stories like this.
So at least try to read more and cause awareness.
I feel that because I'm a Jew, its so important for me to set an example. I take the Jewish Holocaust very personally and emotionally. It really ripped my heart out to hear that such torture is still going on in 2010!!! It's just unbelievable. In 2010 will mark 8 years of targeted violence! Enough is enough! We are all one. Humans. Not animals!

My deed of the day was to donate money to the cause and cause awareness. I would very much like to go and volunteer in a country with so much needs but I dont think I'm emotionally strong enough to handle it but I'm still looking into it....
Sorry for the misspelling, its 720am and I'm soooo tired. NIGHTTTTT


"I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred." -Bob Dylan


If you want to learn how you can get involved check out:
Jewish World Watch: www.jewishworldwatch.org
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: www.ushmm.org/genocide/take_action/action/community_in_action
Stop Genocide Now: www.stopgenocidenow.org

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