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Soo.. what are you doing to contribute?
10:44 PM
Why didn't you sign your name.
I take offence to this. I'm doing my part. A group at school and myself are organizing a Ryan's Well day. This is a day to raise money for Ryan's well Organization which helps give clean water to those in Uganda and other such countries in need of it.
Water is Life.
Take Care,
-Pete-
P.S And sign your name.
I also want to call attention to a entry i wrote a while ago when i cam up for the idea for this Ryan's Well Project...
"I want to talk about an idea for the Activist project, well a suggestion really. I've been attending a curling camp for the past 4 years, this was my final year. And every year during the camp the CCA and Trillium Curling Camp try to raise money for a very good cause. This year the week long camp that runs twice and involves a total of 192 campers raised just over $2,500. The good cause? Ryan's Well. www.ryanswell.ca This is a charity which takes the money collected and uses it to build wells in areas of the world that has no access to clean drinking water. This is a very important thing. It's a fact that 20% of the world's population, that's 1.1 billion human beings who don't have access to clean drinknig water. About 2.2 million die each year because of a lack of water or sanitation. Most of which are children under five years of age. On top of that how many people do you think die of water born diseases? About 3-4 million people, including 2 million children that die of diarrhea. These are some very scary numbers and it gets worse. More than 6,000 childeren die each year beacuse of lack of clean water or water born diseases. I know this is scary and i know that it's hard to think about but it's a reality. This year i had the oppertunity to meet the man who created this wonderful project Ryan Hreljac. Actually i met the boy who started it all, Ryan is 14 years old today and he started this charity when he was about 6. His class was learning about the world and when the teacher told the class that they were very lucky because they had access to water whenever they wanted ryan was confused. He didn't understand why people couldn't have clean water. Because when your 6 you think of the world as being your backyard. And when his class started to collect money for unicef ryan wanted to help. he learned that it took $50 dollars to build a well. So he started to do chores around the house and for neighbours and eventually got $50. He took it to his teacher and felt very good about himself. So he wanted to build more wells, he got his class to start bake sales and kid stuff like that to raise money. Ever since then the rest is history. His charity has raised over a million dollars and help thousands of people.
There is a side story attached to this story, bear with me I'm sorry this is so long but it's a matter close to my heart and i want you all to have a good understanding of this so we can consider this as our topic. If we don't then you can all learn about Ryans well and the next story.
The side story is Ryan started writing to a pen pal in Uganda. A boy named Jimmy . He was 2 years older than Ryan and lived with his mother, aunt and 5 other boys in a round hut just big enough for them all to lie down in. They exchanged letters often Jimmy found it a very good way to practise english. But one day Jimmy's letters stopped coming, for a month Ryan didn't recive a letter. It turns out that Jimmy's village was raided by a rebel resistance army who kidnap kids as recruits in their force. Jimmy was tied up and thrown into a hut. While in there he chewed through his restraints and ran out of the hut toward the forest. The rebel force fired at him and Jimmy fell pretending to be shot and crawled into the forest. Jimmy slept in the forest that night and in the moring ran to the place where he dropped off his letters to Ryan. This was a outpost of the Canadian Embassy. To make a long story short Ryan's family ended up adopting Jimmy and he is now Ryan's brother. I also had the pleasure to meet jimmy at this camp i attened along with Ryan and Jimmy, they participated in all non curling events, Ryan wasn;t much of a curler and jimmy had never seen ice and was scared of it but we eventually overcame that fear. They are 2 of the nicest people you will ever meet and they share an incredible story of human kindness.
I hope you guys will read this and consider something to do with ryan's well as a project we can do. Even if not for Mass Comm i hope to help this great charity and ask for any people who wouuld be interested to make themselves known. I'm going to post this in the forum as well.
I want to leave you with 2 thoughts.
1. One person in a developing country, on average, uses anywhere between 10-20 litres of water a day, How many litres of water does a person use in a developed country like Canada or America?
Each person uses approx. 326 litres of water a day.
So please when your brushing you teeth turn those taps off, and be carful not to waste water or food.
2. The other thought i want to leave you with is a quote from a great man, Nelson Mandela.
"Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity, it's and act of justice."
Anonymous said...
Soo.. what are you doing to contribute?
10:44 PM
Why didn't you sign your name.
I take offence to this. I'm doing my part. A group at school and myself are organizing a Ryan's Well day. This is a day to raise money for Ryan's well Organization which helps give clean water to those in Uganda and other such countries in need of it.
Water is Life.
Take Care,
-Pete-
P.S And sign your name.
I also want to call attention to a entry i wrote a while ago when i cam up for the idea for this Ryan's Well Project...
"I want to talk about an idea for the Activist project, well a suggestion really. I've been attending a curling camp for the past 4 years, this was my final year. And every year during the camp the CCA and Trillium Curling Camp try to raise money for a very good cause. This year the week long camp that runs twice and involves a total of 192 campers raised just over $2,500. The good cause? Ryan's Well. www.ryanswell.ca This is a charity which takes the money collected and uses it to build wells in areas of the world that has no access to clean drinking water. This is a very important thing. It's a fact that 20% of the world's population, that's 1.1 billion human beings who don't have access to clean drinknig water. About 2.2 million die each year because of a lack of water or sanitation. Most of which are children under five years of age. On top of that how many people do you think die of water born diseases? About 3-4 million people, including 2 million children that die of diarrhea. These are some very scary numbers and it gets worse. More than 6,000 childeren die each year beacuse of lack of clean water or water born diseases. I know this is scary and i know that it's hard to think about but it's a reality. This year i had the oppertunity to meet the man who created this wonderful project Ryan Hreljac. Actually i met the boy who started it all, Ryan is 14 years old today and he started this charity when he was about 6. His class was learning about the world and when the teacher told the class that they were very lucky because they had access to water whenever they wanted ryan was confused. He didn't understand why people couldn't have clean water. Because when your 6 you think of the world as being your backyard. And when his class started to collect money for unicef ryan wanted to help. he learned that it took $50 dollars to build a well. So he started to do chores around the house and for neighbours and eventually got $50. He took it to his teacher and felt very good about himself. So he wanted to build more wells, he got his class to start bake sales and kid stuff like that to raise money. Ever since then the rest is history. His charity has raised over a million dollars and help thousands of people.
There is a side story attached to this story, bear with me I'm sorry this is so long but it's a matter close to my heart and i want you all to have a good understanding of this so we can consider this as our topic. If we don't then you can all learn about Ryans well and the next story.
The side story is Ryan started writing to a pen pal in Uganda. A boy named Jimmy . He was 2 years older than Ryan and lived with his mother, aunt and 5 other boys in a round hut just big enough for them all to lie down in. They exchanged letters often Jimmy found it a very good way to practise english. But one day Jimmy's letters stopped coming, for a month Ryan didn't recive a letter. It turns out that Jimmy's village was raided by a rebel resistance army who kidnap kids as recruits in their force. Jimmy was tied up and thrown into a hut. While in there he chewed through his restraints and ran out of the hut toward the forest. The rebel force fired at him and Jimmy fell pretending to be shot and crawled into the forest. Jimmy slept in the forest that night and in the moring ran to the place where he dropped off his letters to Ryan. This was a outpost of the Canadian Embassy. To make a long story short Ryan's family ended up adopting Jimmy and he is now Ryan's brother. I also had the pleasure to meet jimmy at this camp i attened along with Ryan and Jimmy, they participated in all non curling events, Ryan wasn;t much of a curler and jimmy had never seen ice and was scared of it but we eventually overcame that fear. They are 2 of the nicest people you will ever meet and they share an incredible story of human kindness.
I hope you guys will read this and consider something to do with ryan's well as a project we can do. Even if not for Mass Comm i hope to help this great charity and ask for any people who wouuld be interested to make themselves known. I'm going to post this in the forum as well.
I want to leave you with 2 thoughts.
1. One person in a developing country, on average, uses anywhere between 10-20 litres of water a day, How many litres of water does a person use in a developed country like Canada or America?
Each person uses approx. 326 litres of water a day.
So please when your brushing you teeth turn those taps off, and be carful not to waste water or food.
2. The other thought i want to leave you with is a quote from a great man, Nelson Mandela.
"Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity, it's and act of justice."
posted by -Pete- at 11:12 p.m.
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