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Comment by Liz ~ healthy water for the world ~

Author: Liz ~ healthy water for the world ~ (2089)
Date posted: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:52:05 PST
Edited: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:30:36 PST
Comment on: WDI Project brainstorming-More collaboration!! (6)
Feedback score: 3 (* * *)

Linda, When I went to Thailand for the tsunami relief, I went out of my way to meet with the Public Health crew, a representative of the ministry to overseer the water situation in the Khao-lak, Phang-nga area and a team in charge of clean water in the settlement camps. They were on the ball and way ahead of the other countries affected by the tsunami. That was so heartwarming to know.

David, I'm with you. This is a good place to be for now. Okay team....since we are brainstorming. Anything goes, right?

I was just thinking about having t-shirts made for us all. Maybe an aqua color or light bluish color symbolizing water. This is in a sense following the lines of what Cafe Express is doing for Humanity before Politics. I was hoping we can appeal to the volunteers - there are 65.4 million volunteers in the USA alone, imagine globally and do the Math. So something like : To volunteer...love in action. Help save lives. Join us. Stop WDI.

Wouldn't it be great if we have our own website as well. That would be so awesome. I don't know if any of you have seen my website but Marissa created that for me. One of her jobs is creating websites.

In this way, we are making even more good things happen by encouraging volunteerism and then introducing the concept of WDI. I have been mulling this over. And have been biased to the verbage above because I have written about them in my book especially the "love in action" concept of volunteerism. I am open to whatever ideas you all have.

If anyone can uplift a cause, we know it is Oprah. Especially causes that noone seems to be particularly interested in even though they are urgent issues. I think we can have fun and submit a proposal to her as well as a means of raising her awareness of the number of deaths annually from WDI. Our little global team that could, makes for a great human interest story. And why not, right? Let's have fun with all these. After all, we represent the massa.

Okay...just planting seeds.;-) We will connect the dots later, as we've done together so far. I am sure that we can find the connections as we go on. And something will materialize again.

Love to our team. I can't wait to visit with Phyllis next week. I will give her the warmest, biggest hugs for all of you. <3

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