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A Ripple in the Pond...

I have been invited to participate in what I believe is an incredibly important project, Project Nightlight is an organization that empowers kids to report abuse. They mentor and educate abused children in foster care and are trying to spread national awareness about child abuse.

I will be donating services, prints, and coupons to their silent auction and have offered my time mentoring kids in my area.

After looking for some time for a domestic violence shelter to donate my services to and being rejected time and again for insurance reasons, I am very very very excited about being given this opportunity to help.

It is interesting how I wanted to help battered wives...got pregnant and two weeks later get a random call from this organization asking me to help with abused kids.

It is a travesty how many children quietly suffer at the hands of the ones they love, most of them not knowing that what hurts is wrong. The saddest part is that some of these children don't grow up able to function in life; instead, devout of the tools they need to cope with their past, they buckle under it and succumb to a downward self depricating spiral of self loathing, addiction and in many cases, early death. If we can do something, anything, to throw a pebble in the great pond, who knows how far the ripple will travel...the important thing is that you stepped up and threw in that pebble. I want to be one of those people doing something instead of just talking about it.

www.projectnightlight.org

Do something. If not for this cause, for one that means something to you.

posted by Rachel @ 12:05 AM