Save The Children

I came across a CNN article titled: Famine In East Africa-How You Can Help that really caught my attention. Check it out: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/07/20/iyw.howtohelp.somalia.famine/index.html.


It lists all the organizations that are helping the famine going on today. However, all of these organizations all just have links to donate $10 or to TEXT a certain number to donate money. In my Multimedia Image and Hypertext class at TCU we are trying to find an organization we can send our food to. I think we could easily just send everything we have to an organizations address that they could send out to Africa. Take Save the Children for example. They have their address provided on their website: 54 Wilton Road, Westport, CT 06880. Save the Children is feeding underweight children, providing life saving medical treatment, and clean water. The reason we are looking for an organization we can give food instead of money is because we will have these donation stations we create set up throughout campus and although I trust everyone's moral ethic at TCU, you never know who would just walk up and take the donation jar and the money inside of it. People are a lot less likely to steal food.

I like the idea of gathering food and just sending it to an organization in the US. What do you think?