Sharing In a Charity Appeal

About a year ago I remember seeing a news video story about children in another country that traveled to the local dump every day to sift and search for anything they could collect to sell or eat to help make their families living. I remember my heart just broke to see small, 4 or 5 year old children walking through the garbage. This was a lifestyle for them! Entire families, too poor to afford food or shelter walk up the mountain to the dump to sift each and every day. This morning I came across a charity appeal highlighting this story. On the website there is a YouTube video you can watch to see the conditions I saw on another news story.

Luckily, as the holidays ring in across the world, there is also hope and help for these people. A world wide charity appeal where not only average people like you and me, but politicians and celebrities as well are banning together to help.

You can find out more about Christmas For Payatas by reading the press release, visiting the site and perhaps, if your budget allows, making a purchase this Christmas that will in turn help the children of Payatas.

Press Release:

The landfill in Payatas, The Philippines, is notoriously known the world over as Smokey Mountain. For over 35 years, the smoking dump site has grown to become a stark and heart-tugging reminder of the desperate conditions of humanity.

On a daily basis, children pick through newly arrived garbage to collect material to sell. The earnings made by one child are not enough to even buy food for the day. Hence, entire families are forced to climb the mountain each day, hoping to earn enough to feed everyone. Children as young as four years old are forced to work in this daily struggle for survival.

In response to the plight of these children, Totedaddy.com is working with Lighthouse Center For Children Foundation to bring a little cheer to the children this Christmas.

Totedaddy.com has kicked off with a cash sponsorship of USD 10,000 to enable the children to celebrate Christmas. FusionExcel International has also pitched in a USD 5,000 in cash sponsorship. The money raised will help fund the projects already in place, and help fund additional projects aimed at providing better housing, and a means of livelihood for the Payatas community.

It is hoped that by creating better awareness to the plight of these children, more support can be garnered towards their betterment. Together we can bury poverty!