Tournament in Waterloo Region
Saturday June 5, 2010
| March 2009: $8,500 was sent to Free the Children to build a school in Sierra Leone! See the community report from Free The Children. |
CanSTEP is a not-for-profit
organization, run by volunteers, that raises money for people who are living
in poverty around the world. We currently
sponsor four children, three through Plan
Canada (formerly called Foster Parents Plan), and one through
Christian Children's Fund. We've
also made donations to the
Stephen Lewis Foundation, and have just reached our goal of helping to
fund the building of a
small school in Sierra Leone through
Free the Children. We are
a non-religious organization that believes in ending the poverty cycle by
helping communities in the following areas:
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The Challenge The
good news is that the world is brimming with millions of compassionate and
loving people who would bend over backward to help a person who is starving;
who's skeleton shows beneath their skin. The world is filled with
loving people who would help a person dying of starvation; if they met
the person face to face.
The bad news is that
over 25,000 people die every day due to hunger and hunger
related disease (United Nations - FAO, 2002). Let's make some macabre
comparisons using the number 25,000: - you could fill every
seat in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans in less than 3 days with
the dead bodies of hunger victims from around the world - every week starvation
kills as many people as did the December 2004 tsunami. - every 3 hours,
starvation kills as many people as died in the September 11th terrorist
attacks. The simple counting of
dead bodies, however, tends to oversimplify and euphemize the
situation. Approximately
25,000 people die every day due to hunger.
These deaths however do not simply strike people down randomly like
lightning, a tsunami or terrorist attack.
The 25,000 people die from a pool of starving people.
How many people are in this situation?
The number is so large you may not really connect with the meaning
of the number. Right now the
number of people who are suffering the agony of starvation is, to a
compassionate and loving person, unfathomable. If
you were to pluck 8 people from the planet, totally at random, one of the
those people would be dying of starvation. Over 800 million people are suffering from the physical and psychological pain of chronic hunger. As mentioned, about 25,000 of these people die every day because they couldn’t get enough of life's necessities. That's the bad news. Perhaps you are thinking that you will do something about this. Maybe you can help in some way. |
Introducing the CanSTEP community... | |
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Maxwell Adjei is from Egyirikrom in Ghana. He was born in
2005. Maxwell's mother, Esi, was born in 1987 is a peasant farmer.
Sponsored through Foster Parents Plan
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Gobi Nebi Dosse is from Addis Ababa Ethiopia and was
born in
1997. He enjoys soccer and also plays traditional games with his
friends.
Sponsored through Christian Children's Fund
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Aubrey Monfort is from Nkhwangwi Malawi. He was born in 2000 and
enjoys making models and playing with cars.
Sponsored through Foster Parents Plan
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Sazidul is from Narayanpur Bangladesh. He was born in 1999 and
enjoys helping his mother cook and playing with friends.
Sponsored through Foster Parents Plan
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