Mark is having his charity livestream and it would be great (if you can!) if you donated or shared this link http://www.gofundme.com/markicharity
The donations are going for St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Anything helps!
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It’s been almost a month since i started my GoFundMe and i’ve switched back and forth between hope and despair about my situation. In the beginning I received quite a few donations and felt great, but after they started to lag I because very hard on myself, thinking I didn’t deserve the help in the first place. I’m pushing one last time to ask for donations. I’m really quite close to reaching my goal, and just a bit more effort from me may make a huge difference in the upcoming month.
So i’m asking again. If you have the heart to help, even just ten dollars will go a very long way in helping me get out of my dad’s house. Please reblog and ask your followers to help. please continue to reblog. and please donate if you can.
it takes a huge amount of courage to ask for help to break free from an abusive home; please consider contributing towards the funding- she’s very close to her goal!
B.C. Woman Organizes Care Packages To Fight The Northern Food Crisis
Nobody should have to pay $28 for a head of lettuce anywhere — let alone in Canada.
That’s the belief that drives Jennifer Gwilliam, who spends her days organizing food care packages for people she’s never met. But she’s not even sending aid to a Third World country; she’s sending it to Canada’s remote north.
The high prices of groceries in Nunavut, for example —$47 for a box of laundry detergent or $105 for a case of water— have drawn increasing outcry from Canadians over the last few years.
“It was just shocking to see the prices they were paying for a head of cabbage or a flat of water,” Gwilliam told The Huffington Post B.C. “I was just appalled. It’s hard enough to make ends meet down here, let alone with those sort of prices. So I wanted to do something.”
After doing some digging, Gwilliam came across the Facebook group Feeding My Family, designed to raise awareness about the northern crisis and advocate for change. But she wanted to turn outrage into action, so she started her own Facebook group, Helping Our Northern Neighbours, last summer.
Gwilliam’s group matches people who want to donate packages of food and other necessities with those in the north who need it most.
People can either donate one box once, or choose to sponsor a family, meaning they regularly send care packages. There are no restrictions on what people can give, although many cater their boxes to the family they’ve been matched with.
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There are over 400 names on Gwilliam’s list of people seeking assistance; just under half have received help in some way so far. She said many of donors (from across Canada) are living paycheque to paycheque themselves, but that doesn’t stop them from giving back. And everyone seems truly grateful for the help.
Candy Ivalutanar, who lives in Repulse Bay, Nunavut with her husband and two daughters under 10, said she cried the first time she received a care package.
“I told my husband, ‘I thought I wasn’t going to get anything. I thought nobody would want to ever help us.’ It touched me so much,” Ivalutanar told HuffPost B.C. She frequently tells her sponsor, who has sent a few boxes already, that she loves her.
“I love her for helping me so much,” she said. “Even if it’s just a little, I don’t care — that’s a lot for me.”
THIS IS IMPORTANT THIS IS SO IMPORTANT
PLEASE FOLLOW THE LINKS AND DONATE IF YOU CAN OR WOW IF YOU ARE ABLE TO WHY NOT SPONSOR A FAMILY??PLEASE THERE ARE BABIES WITH EMPTY BELLIES IN OUR DISTANT BACK YARD PLS HELP THEM
(via brandb)