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In February of this year, I spent 8 days in one of the poorest countries of the world, Niger Africa. Without costing you anything but a few minutes each week, you can help support an orphanage I visited there. If you go to www.linkniger.com you can find under Projects & Partnerships more information about this home to parentless children. Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world. In fact, it is a fourth-world nation. Never heard of fourth-world? Me too until a friend told me how Niger was too poor for third-world so a new global classification has been created.

How can you help? I recently started writing for an online editorial of sorts, www.examiner.com where I will be contributing twice each week. Funds are generated simply by the number of views. 100% of what is generated is going to support this orphanage in Niger. I hope you help! Simply by going to the Examiner website, then to the link Meet The Examiners, you will see all the examiner categories. Select Religion & Spirituality. You will find me there in the Norfolk group. Open my page and then you can subscribe by entering your email. As long as you don't check the box for other updates, the only emails you will receive will be to notify you of my articles posting. Each time I post, if you take just a few minutes to open the article, a page view is generated which translates into funds for orphans! If you don't find the articles are worth the read, you can simply unsubscribe...but if you do, I'd ask you to invite your friends to join.

We all see the commercials on television, print ads in magazines, headlines...about poverty in the world. This is a real opportunity to make a difference. Much of the worlds poverty remains due to a lack of links between the under-resourced and families like yours and mine. Between working for The Christian Children's Fund and living in the inner-city of Richmond, I spent 15 years working directly to help improve the conditions of the lives of impoverished people. During that time I always heard people say the same thing..."I just don't know how to get involved." If you could translate a few minutes each week into real dollars for orphaned children in one the poorest nations of the world, why wouldn't you, why not get involved?

If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know! I won't be posting to this blog for a while since I'll be focussing on the Examiner articles...thanks for your help!

Pastor Fred