2009 Valley Lions Project
I have been thinking about this for awhile and I am finally going to do something about it. There is a “shipping container” (I think) for sale at Eisner’s Sale on April 25, 2009. I intend to buy it for the project explained below.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Seeds for your "Garden of Eden" from Lions Clubs around the World
For several years I have been "in charge" of buying the candy for our Lions Santa Party at the local skating rink.
Since I am cheap, I WAITED until the day AFTER Halloween and then I would buy a huge amount of the Halloween candy put on sale (usually fire sale prices) by the grocery stores in the area. I would store the candy for a few months then our Lions club would get a group together and bag the candy for the Lions Santa Party. One of our members would dress up as Santa and hand out the bags of candy to the kids at the rink on Santa Party day.
I got thinking the other day of the people I read about EATING DIRT in Haiti to stay alive and curb their hunger. I finally made the connection between the "candy project" and the Haiti problem and how I could use one to help the other.
Every spring the stores around town arm themselves with "gardening seed displays" galore. These displays have seeds for anything and everything a gardener could imagine wanting to grow; vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains, flowers, shrubs, trees etc.
At the end of planting season there are huge amounts of these seeds NOT SOLD. They go on sale but much of the seed is never sold. So the Lions Club buys ALL the left over seeds at fire sale prices in bulk quantity from ALL the stores in the area.
Our Lions Club orders a shipping container. We pack it with ALL the seeds we collected and all the other items we assembled that would be useful and well received by the destination country. We then ship the container to a Lions Club in the destination country. Those Lions then use their best judgment in distributing the contents of the shipping container. Haiti was the 1st destination chosen by our Lions Club and here is why.
Haiti's poorest reduced to EATING DIRT
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23126063-1702,00.html
EXTREME poverty is forcing Haiti's poorest people to eat dirt.
Mud cookies - made from dirt, salt and vegetable shortening - have become popular among Haitians desperate to stave off hunger, the Associated Press reports.
The cookies - which are occasionally used by pregnant women and children as an antacid and source of calcium - have become a regular meal.
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and one of the most disadvantaged in the world.
Seventy-six per cent of the population lives on less than $2.25 a day, and 55 per cent live on less than $1.13 a day.
Chronic malnutrition is widespread and diarrhea - an easily-preventable disease - kills one in five children under the age of five.
Haitian doctors have warned that relying on the mud cookies will lead to malnutrition.
“Trust me, if I see someone eating those cookies, I will discourage it,” said Gabriel Thimothee, executive director of Haiti’s health ministry.
The mud cookies sell for around five cents each, compared to 60 cents for two cups of rice.
(A more in depth article)
Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/29/1264228-poor-haitians-resort-to-eating-dirt
Hopefully the gardening seeds will produce enough food for everyone in the receiving destination that no one will ever go hungry again.
We must all learn to work in our own little "Gardens of Eden".
"Shipping Container" Destination:
Club Details -- PORT AU PRINCE CENTRAL -- HAITI
Club Number: 0000041122
District: rica, Central America, Caribbe
President: ANTONINE ROSEME
Meeting Place: INSTITUT HAITIANO-AMERICAIN
Meeting Address: ANGLE RUES ST CYR ET CAPOIS, CHAMPS DE MARS
Meeting Time: TUE, 1-5, 630PM
Telephone Number:
Email Address: afroseme@yahoo.fr
Or
Club Details -- GONAIVES -- HAITI
Club Number: 0000061171
District: rica, Central America, Caribbe
President: MARC-HENRY MOISE
Meeting Place: FAMILY HOTEL 2
Meeting Address: ROUTE NATIONALE # 1
Meeting Time: MA,1,2,3,4,
Telephone Number:
Email Address: marc-henrymoise@hotmail.com
Since I am cheap, I WAITED until the day AFTER Halloween and then I would buy a huge amount of the Halloween candy put on sale (usually fire sale prices) by the grocery stores in the area. I would store the candy for a few months then our Lions club would get a group together and bag the candy for the Lions Santa Party. One of our members would dress up as Santa and hand out the bags of candy to the kids at the rink on Santa Party day.
I got thinking the other day of the people I read about EATING DIRT in Haiti to stay alive and curb their hunger. I finally made the connection between the "candy project" and the Haiti problem and how I could use one to help the other.
Every spring the stores around town arm themselves with "gardening seed displays" galore. These displays have seeds for anything and everything a gardener could imagine wanting to grow; vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains, flowers, shrubs, trees etc.
At the end of planting season there are huge amounts of these seeds NOT SOLD. They go on sale but much of the seed is never sold. So the Lions Club buys ALL the left over seeds at fire sale prices in bulk quantity from ALL the stores in the area.
Our Lions Club orders a shipping container. We pack it with ALL the seeds we collected and all the other items we assembled that would be useful and well received by the destination country. We then ship the container to a Lions Club in the destination country. Those Lions then use their best judgment in distributing the contents of the shipping container. Haiti was the 1st destination chosen by our Lions Club and here is why.
Haiti's poorest reduced to EATING DIRT
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23126063-1702,00.html
EXTREME poverty is forcing Haiti's poorest people to eat dirt.
Mud cookies - made from dirt, salt and vegetable shortening - have become popular among Haitians desperate to stave off hunger, the Associated Press reports.
The cookies - which are occasionally used by pregnant women and children as an antacid and source of calcium - have become a regular meal.
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and one of the most disadvantaged in the world.
Seventy-six per cent of the population lives on less than $2.25 a day, and 55 per cent live on less than $1.13 a day.
Chronic malnutrition is widespread and diarrhea - an easily-preventable disease - kills one in five children under the age of five.
Haitian doctors have warned that relying on the mud cookies will lead to malnutrition.
“Trust me, if I see someone eating those cookies, I will discourage it,” said Gabriel Thimothee, executive director of Haiti’s health ministry.
The mud cookies sell for around five cents each, compared to 60 cents for two cups of rice.
(A more in depth article)
Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/29/1264228-poor-haitians-resort-to-eating-dirt
Hopefully the gardening seeds will produce enough food for everyone in the receiving destination that no one will ever go hungry again.
We must all learn to work in our own little "Gardens of Eden".
"Shipping Container" Destination:
Club Details -- PORT AU PRINCE CENTRAL -- HAITI
Club Number: 0000041122
District: rica, Central America, Caribbe
President: ANTONINE ROSEME
Meeting Place: INSTITUT HAITIANO-AMERICAIN
Meeting Address: ANGLE RUES ST CYR ET CAPOIS, CHAMPS DE MARS
Meeting Time: TUE, 1-5, 630PM
Telephone Number:
Email Address: afroseme@yahoo.fr
Or
Club Details -- GONAIVES -- HAITI
Club Number: 0000061171
District: rica, Central America, Caribbe
President: MARC-HENRY MOISE
Meeting Place: FAMILY HOTEL 2
Meeting Address: ROUTE NATIONALE # 1
Meeting Time: MA,1,2,3,4,
Telephone Number:
Email Address: marc-henrymoise@hotmail.com
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Fruit Roll-up - Lions Club Twinning - World Hunger
I was contacted by email about a project to "twin" Lions Clubs around the world. Two Lions Clubs from different parts of the world would make contact and form a partnership to start sharing information between themselves.
I was thinking about Lions Clubs that operate in areas of the world where food, housing, education, and fun are in short supply. Fruit roll-ups came to mind. If you think of fruit roll-ups like pages in a book or a binder. A group could assemble education stuff by writing on the roll-ups then put them in a binder for kids in the destination country. The kids learn what's written on the roll-ups about the host country then the kids eat the roll-ups. With container shipping organized to a fine art now, a group of Lions Clubs in a "rich" country could each participate in assembling the food/education binders with the help of school children and filling and shipping a container destined for a "poor" country and have it managed by Lions Clubs at the receiving end.
The container could contain anything the giving Lions Clubs could collect that might be well needed and well received at the destination country.
I was thinking about Lions Clubs that operate in areas of the world where food, housing, education, and fun are in short supply. Fruit roll-ups came to mind. If you think of fruit roll-ups like pages in a book or a binder. A group could assemble education stuff by writing on the roll-ups then put them in a binder for kids in the destination country. The kids learn what's written on the roll-ups about the host country then the kids eat the roll-ups. With container shipping organized to a fine art now, a group of Lions Clubs in a "rich" country could each participate in assembling the food/education binders with the help of school children and filling and shipping a container destined for a "poor" country and have it managed by Lions Clubs at the receiving end.
The container could contain anything the giving Lions Clubs could collect that might be well needed and well received at the destination country.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Living in a "Glorified Cardboard Box" with internet service
I have for the last 17 years lived in a "Glorified Cardboard Box" with internet service. Instead of working 40 hours a week to make ends meet I work 1 hour a week and have fun with the other 39+ hours. I make sure I get paid well for the 1 hour a week that I work.
I sit in the most comfortable "chair" in the world with my computer and internet in front of me. There are very few personal material possessions I want or need but access to high speed fiber optic internet is one of them.
I buy all the clothes I need or want from Value Village or the Salvation Army etc. And that means my entire wardrobe was cheap! My transportation is a horse. He is cheap on fuel and fun to ride. I live right across the street from a grocery store, a bank, a hospital and a park. I have a plane at the airport to take me anywhere I want to go. I don't physically go very far but on the internet I travel all over the world instantly.
I bought my "cardboard box" that I live in with cash. Mortgages are only for things that will make you money. ie. a business, stock investments, etc. A home does NOT make you any money. It is a dead horse or a burden on anyone that owns one. The bigger they are more expensive they are to maintain and look after. If you live within your means, you will understand that all "cardboard boxes" are the same except for the price tag on them.
I belong to "the Point of Origin Club". It is the most powerful secret organization in the world. It connects the most powerful people on earth together through a neural network. The feed back loop of what everyone is doing comes through all media sources. ie. T.V., internet, ratio, text messaging, cell phone, newspapers, magazines etc.
I sit in the most comfortable "chair" in the world with my computer and internet in front of me. There are very few personal material possessions I want or need but access to high speed fiber optic internet is one of them.
I buy all the clothes I need or want from Value Village or the Salvation Army etc. And that means my entire wardrobe was cheap! My transportation is a horse. He is cheap on fuel and fun to ride. I live right across the street from a grocery store, a bank, a hospital and a park. I have a plane at the airport to take me anywhere I want to go. I don't physically go very far but on the internet I travel all over the world instantly.
I bought my "cardboard box" that I live in with cash. Mortgages are only for things that will make you money. ie. a business, stock investments, etc. A home does NOT make you any money. It is a dead horse or a burden on anyone that owns one. The bigger they are more expensive they are to maintain and look after. If you live within your means, you will understand that all "cardboard boxes" are the same except for the price tag on them.
I belong to "the Point of Origin Club". It is the most powerful secret organization in the world. It connects the most powerful people on earth together through a neural network. The feed back loop of what everyone is doing comes through all media sources. ie. T.V., internet, ratio, text messaging, cell phone, newspapers, magazines etc.
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