Sarah's 3rd Week

“God gives but doesn’t share.”
-Mountains Beyond Mountains

After trying to garner support and funds for Darfur for the past couple of weeks I’m beginning to feel like a used car salesman, but in a good way. I have my short shpiel, which took some time to perfect actually. It seems like the average person has an attention span of approx. 30seconds, which isn’t much time to explain my project and how they can help. You can’t force people to care but I’m getting better at nudging them in that direction. $250+ raised so far, all of which is going to Stop Genocide Now (SGN, http://www.stopgenocidenow.org/) a nonprofit that is supporting primary and secondary school education the refugee camps. Through Tents of Hope and SGN, All Saints’ money will be going specifically to the Kounoungo camp, which currently has over 18,000 people living there.

Working at All Saints has been great; it seems like a huge family instead of an office. Congratulations and celebration of good works is a regular part of every staff meeting, it starts them off with a really great positive atmosphere. With all that they do I am amazed that they are able to keep it all organized and function, I think the closeness of the people working here is one the reasons. I hope that wherever I end up working in my future career it has the kind of great mood that All Saints has.

Its great to read the blog and hear what everyone is doing/learning from their organizations, I’d love it if you guys could post any links you have so I can go learn more about them. Also, how have the weekly dinners been going? I remember those interesting conversations being one the highlights of my experience last summer.

Anyone interested in doing more visit:
- http://www.democracyinaction.org/
- www.stopgenocidenow.org/petition
- http://www.africaaction.org/