Needs Next Door

Terita, a friend of mine at work just brought up a good opportunity, a need in our community that I am sure we are able to meet. A Tulsa Public Elementary School, has children who are living in need, just minutes away from you and me, living in excess, as well as serious needs for the school itself. These children are going without basic necessities and could use our help. My co-worker’s mother’s church helps this school by supplying them with some basic needs, but they are no where close to able to provide everything the school needs and those children need. They provide things as basic as underwear, because some of the children do not have any. Underwear. You and I don’t even think twice about buying a new pair of boxers or panties, and how many do we have in the back of that endless top drawer. These kids go commando on a daily basis. And they’re not in some third world country, they are our fellow Tulsans. The school also is not supported by the district like it needs to be. For example, there is often no soap or paper towels in the bathroom for the children to wash their hands, another basic need we take for granted.

I want to help.

I am going to help.

Homeless, Scared, Fleeing, Trying to Survive :: Not Getting Any Better Anytime Soon

These poor people have no where to go, no safe place to lay their heads, no place is safe for the children to play and to be children. And now their last resort has been marked off the possibility list...do they even have a plan b?

The Sudanese people from Darfur are fleing their country and going into Chad, who wants them out; many Chadeans have fled into Cameroon and are beginning to return to their homes after violence has decreased in the last few weeks in their homeland.

Do you think that more of us should get involved over there? Our brothers and sisters over there are in serious need.