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Ellen, Can You Hear Me? (Epic Change Puts the FUN Back in FUNdraising.)


Offbeat  (tags: interesting, Tanzania, school, Africa, Ellen DeGeneres, education, poverty, unusual, unique, kids, children )

Stacey
- 694 days ago - epicchange.org
Hilarious video of dogooder who REALLY wants Ellen DeGeneres to donate $10 to kids in Africa. Bonus points for classic Yentl remake and gratuitous references to pie, widgets and fruitcake. Help by forwarding this link to Ellen and all your friends.
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Pamela WolfSong (235)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 4:25 am
Noted and thank you Stacy.
 

Past Member (0)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 6:21 am
noted and thanks
 

Joycey B. (699)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 6:44 am
Noted wit thanks Stacey. Thanks for sending to me Sanjay.
 

Gran Pat (230)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 7:25 am
noted, and thank you for the information. thanx stacey
 

Gail Costic (496)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 7:52 am
Noted with thanks Stacey and to you Joycey for passing this on to me.
 

Stacey Monk (15)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 7:58 am
I truly believe the kindness of strangers can make a huge difference in the lives of 170 of the most amazing kids I've ever met. Help them rebuild their school in Tanzania; pass this video onto all your friends - and to Ellen DeGeneres - and donate just $10 today at www.epicchange.org/donate; if you do, Epic Change could win $50,000 toward construction in a competition called "America's Giving Challenge" which ends Thursday, January 31st.
 

Nancy Vernand (201)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 12:42 pm
Go Stacey! This just show that one person can make a difference. Thank you!
 

Past Member (0)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 12:44 pm
to many kids in the usa that need help !!! we should take care of our own first!!!!!!!!
 

Stacey Monk (15)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 2:00 pm
Daniel -

All the world's children are deserving of love, basic care and an education. While I have certainly worked with kids in our country, and have done volunteer work in Appalachia, I feel it's only fair to point out that poverty in our culture bears no comparison to that in Africa.

In addition, the safety nets that exist in our country for children, like free healthcare and access to food stamps and free school meals, free public schooling that provides a reasonable standard of education, access to clean water, etc., simply do not exist there. In our country, if a child isn't provided the basics of education, food and healthcare, it is only through the fault of a caretaker or system that has failed in its basic responsibilities. In Tanzania, almost no child (or adult for that matter) has or can get access to these simple necessities, mostly, sadly, because Westerners have destroyed or stolen the country's national resources for our own wealth and benefit.

A child's nationality, over which it has no choice, should not determine its life expectancy (in our country, nearly 80, in theirs less than 50), its potential or the degree to which it is cared for. All children deserve basic care.
 

Jaclin O. (177)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 3:58 pm
Stacey thanx. Noted/Forwarding.
 

toni G. (36)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 4:12 pm
noted
 

Cheryl B. (69)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 4:46 pm
An entertaining effort for a worthwhile cause.
 

Sharon Ross (215)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 5:07 pm
Noted, thank you Stacey.
 

Barbara Liebowitz (900)
Sunday January 27, 2008, 7:13 pm
thank you Stacey
 

Jennifer M. (80)
Monday January 28, 2008, 1:51 am
Noted and thanks.
 

Marian E. (175)
Wednesday January 30, 2008, 12:12 am

Funny video, very serious subject. Wonderful to note.

Thank you.
 

Penelope P. (101)
Wednesday January 30, 2008, 6:27 am
Noted Stacy thankyou-PS why can't this sort of building be based on Rondavels slung together they are cheaper and very quick there is at least one exclusive school in Sandown Joburg made that way and In pretoria there was at least one politicians family housed that way- John Brink and his author brother lived there. The rondavel is mudbrick true but it is good insulation ecological and can go up ina day andf costs nothing
 

Bea B. (248)
Saturday February 9, 2008, 2:56 am
Great story, noted, thanks Stacy
 
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