Friday, December 5, 2008

Mattafix- Living Darfur

I came across this video while searching the web and found it absolutely amazing. It's wonderful to see all of the happy things in Darfur instead of just the pain and suffering.



Mattafix- Living Darfur lyrics

See the nation through the people's eyes,
See tears that flow like rivers from the skies.
Where it seems there are only borderlines
Where others turn and sigh,
You shall rise (x2)

There's disaster in your past
Boundaries in your path
What do you desire when lift you higher?
You don't have to be extraordinary, just forgiving
Those who never heard your cries,
You shall rise (x2)
And look toward the skies.
Where others fail, you prevail in time.
You shall rise.

(You may never know,
If you lay low, lay low) (x4)
You shall rise (x3)

Sooner or later we must try... Living
(You may never know,
If you lay low, lay low) (x4)

See the nation through the people's eyes,
See tears that flow like rivers from the skies.
Where it seems there are only borderlines
Where others turn and sigh,
You shall rise (x4)

(You may never know,
If you lay low, lay low) [4x]

Sooner or later we must try... Living



I'll leave a link in the sidebar so that you can access it again later.

Thank you for all of the donations that you have sent in. I'm keeping count of the money raised on the sidebar as well.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Response #1

Dear K-9 team – boy am I impressed! I think this is such a good experience for you – being compassionate for others and doing something about it is a step to being an excellent citizen for our country. You will appreciate that my students are sending two goats to a foreign country. One will feed a family of four milk and with their surplus they can sell/make cheese, yogurt, etc. And they can expect to have baby goats to sell or use for surplus sales. :-) This is the first year we’ve been able to purchase two so we’re excited about that…..we may also have enough to get a flock of chickens.

Good luck with your project – I’m really proud of you, Mrs. Ryan



Thank you for responding to our project Mrs. Ryan! I think that what your class is doing is really cool and could benefit a lot of people.

If you have response that you would like posted, leave it in a comment to a message or email me. We are looking forward to hearing about what you have to say about our project. The K-9s would also appreciate donation ideas to help collect money to send to Darfur.

Thanks!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

1,2,3, GO!

Our project has officially been started! This morning was our first Darfur meeting. There were some excellent ideas expressed and put into action within 30 minutes. Imagine what a group of hard-working 7th grades can do in a month! As of today, the K-9 team has raised $17.00 to send to Darfur. We have many ideas to put into action.

For the rest of the week, the school's news will announce that we have a donation box in Mrs. McIntosh's classroom. We are hoping to place more boxes around HTMS very soon to collect more donations.

As of Monday, we will have a jar full of jellybeans at the school. You can pay 25 cents to submit a guess as to of how many jellybeans are in the jar. The student with the closes guess will win the jar. The objective is to give an incentive to learn about the issues in Darfur and to stop them.

Our campaign managers are in search of a guest speaker. They are looking for somebody who is passionate about spreading the word for this great cause. If you are available to help, please leave you're name and a way to contact you in the comment's section. We will be sure to get back with you soon.

Thank you to everyone who has helped to spread awareness about the issues in Darfur. Remember: spreading awareness does not mean creating a fundraiser. It means telling your friends and family about the second Holocaust occurring on our Earth. YOU play a big role in helping to find a cure for Dafur. Thank you!

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Welcome!

Welcome to our blog! This has been put together for the K-9 team at HTMS to spread awarness of what's going on in Darfur. We plan to earn enough money to send to Darfur to contribute towards clean water, food, sanitation, education, and shelters. Our website is k9scontribute2crisis.weebly.com. Please help us in our efforts to spread awareness and stop the genocide in Darfur. Become a follower of this blog so that we can see how many people this message has spread to. We said "Never again" after the holocaust. Did it really mean never again? It's time for the genocide in Darfur to end.