Thursday, September 01, 2005

Blogs Across America

The Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds is coordinating the Blogs Across America effort originally suggested by Hugh Hewitt. Here's Glenn's roundup page. Blogs Across America is a fund-raiser for relief from the hurricane and the flooding Katrina left behind. Each participating blogger recommends his or her favorite relief charity. Here's mine:

The International Disaster Emergency Service (IDES) is a group supported by independent Christian Churches and Churches of Christ. They provide disaster relief within the US as well as around the world. And they're able to keep their overhead low by doing their distribution of aid through volunteers at Christian churches in the nearby area. Because the churches are local, they know the area and they're better able to pinpoint where the help is most needed.

When your donations are marked for a specific need, such as "Hurricane Katrina," 100% of your donation goes for that purpose. None of your designated donation will be used for overhead. IDES gets its overhead expenses from undesignated donations.

Here's what the IDES Disaster-Related Services page says:

"A real friend is one who walks in, when the rest of the world walks out." – Walter Winchell

IDES has assisted in all kinds of natural and man-made disasters including floods, tornadoes, typhoons, refugees, drought, famine, hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, explosions, etc. Assistance provide has involved providing food, clothing, medicines, shelter, water, cooking utensils, blankets and many other items that are needed after a disaster.


…the list goes on, just as misery often goes on after government agencies, insurance companies, and the media go home.

Click here to see what IDES is all about or to donate.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Pretty cool site you've got here. Thanks for it. I like such topics and everything connected to them. BTW, try to add some photos :).