I bet you've been wondering where I've been. Well, let's just say I had a 2 week "honeymoon" with my husband, who arrived in country (Korea) on the 13th. After not having seen him since February (and since it's the first time we'll be living together for longer than one month) we had a LOT to catch up on. So, although it was an unplanned sebattical, it was wonderful, and much needed! ;)
Anyway, I'm back and I have plenty of stories for you today, including one recommended by a reader. I hope you enjoy today's stories!
Today'S Good News:
1. Sick Children Get Royal Treatment (Tampa Bay Online)
2. Transplant Recipient Completes Yosemite Ascent (Yahoo News)
3. Biologist Rescues Black Bear (Florida Today)
4. 4,500 Year Old Mummies Discovered in Chile (Sify News)
5. Ancient Oak Trees Help Reduce Global Warming (Science Daily)
Honorable Mentions:
1. Amsterdam Votes to Ban Polluting Cars from City Centre (Earth Times)
2. Boaters Rescue Pilot after Pontoon Plane Flips on Columbia River (KGW.com)
3. New Fossils of Extremely Primitive 4 Legged Creatures Close the Gap Between Fish and Land Anmials (Science Daily)
4. Ancient Royal Structure Found in Northern Iran
5. Recyclers Get Bike for Needy Child (The Telegram)
Recommended by a Reader:
1. The Power of One is Greater than None (Fire Mountain Gems)
Unpublishable:
1. This Little Piggy was Rescued from the Middle of I-94 in St. Paul
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=516499
June 28, 2008
Copyright 2008 by KARE 11. All rights reserved
This is a story about a pig that fell out of the truck that was carrying it, and landed on a freeway. Someone in another vehicle saw the pig, stopped to rescue it, and took it to the animal shelter where the animal is recovering. It's a very cute story, complete with picture. I recommend stopping by the link for a look.
2. Dentist's Staff Saddle up to Beat Gas Costs
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25405842/
26 June 2008
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
This article is about a Dentist office in Arlington Washington that took a stand against high gas prices, by deciding, as a group, to ride their horses into work.
Today's Top 5:
1. Sick Children Get Royal Treatment
http://northwest2.tbo.com/content/2008/jun/28/nw-sick-children-get-royal-treatment/?news
By KEITH MORELLI
The Tampa Tribune
Published: June 28, 2008
TAMPA - Almost a dozen pageant winners, dazzling in their stylish dresses and impeccable makeup, plunked themselves down across from sick young girls at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital last week. The pageant queens painstakingly painted nails and applied blush to the girls' faces.
Outside, Tampa Fire Rescue firefighters hoisted hospitalized young boys up onto a gleaming red truck. Some boys, yanked at the steering wheel, while others, in hospital pajamas and plastic firefighter helmets, climbed on the back. Some were still attached to IVs.
Two to three times a year, hospital administrators schedule a kids day like this.
"It's my job to make sure the kids are doing well," said Lisa Andrew, the hospital's child-life specialist, who coordinated the day.
And this day was a crowning achievement.
Girls, some not so sick, others very sick, got the full queen treatment. "It is queen for a day for the girls," she said, "and hero for a day for the boys."
Between 25 and 35 children were sprung from their rooms to go down to the lobby and take part in the party. They made arts and crafts and buddied up with blue-shirted firefighters and paramedics.
Two-year-old Austin Justice of Tampa just couldn't get enough of the fire truck. He falls into the "not very sick" category, having just had his tonsils out. He beamed as he sat behind the steering wheel of the truck.
"He loves fire trucks," said his mom, Micheal. "He loves to drive, too."
Leah Campanella runs the Tampa chapter of Queen for a Day, a nonprofit national organization. She said such events, in which pageant winners are called into service, happen several times a year. Pageant queens from as far away as Lakeland, Pasco County and Clearwater participated in the event.
"We're here to pamper the kids," she said.
At one table, 3-year-old Savannah Allison, bald from treatment for an undisclosed disease, had a serious look. She let Miss Pasco County Fair, Lisa Noury, paint on nail polish and brush on some blush, but Savannah wanted to dab on her own lipstick.
Noury, 19, said she has done about four such events during her tenure. She could only grin at her young charge as Savannah pursed her lips and looked into a mirror. "She's having a ball with that lipstick," Noury said.
Reporter Keith Morelli can be reached at (813) 259-7760 or kmorelli@tampatrib.com.
2. Transplant Recipient Completes Yosemite Ascenthttp://www.sofomo.com/US-English/dejanews/Top-News/Default.aspx
By BRENDAN RILEY, Associated Press Writer
28 minutes ago
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - A heart transplant survivor has added another first to her long string of mountaineering feats since getting a new heart 13 years ago — a dangerous 2 1/2-day climb up the sheer, 2,000-foot face of Half Dome,
Yosemite National Park's famed granite monolith.
Kelly Perkins, 46, and her husband, Craig, led by big-wall guide Scott Stowe, began the climb Thursday and reached the top of the iconic 8,842-foot-high dome Saturday afternoon.
The ascent completed an important circle for her. In 1996, 10 months out of the hospital with her new heart, she finished the first of many post-transplant climbs by hiking up the easier backside of Half Dome.
"I feel great. Physically, I feel I'm stronger than I've ever been," Perkins said by cell phone from the top of Half Dome.
"It was a great full circle for me to climb the other side. It was a tricky climb, but it also was a very interesting and beautiful climb."
Since 1996, Perkins has become the first person with another person's heart to summit some of the world's best-known peaks — California's Mount Whitney, Switzerland's Matterhorn, Japan's Mount Fuji, Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro and the face of Yosemite's El Capitan. She also climbed a remote peak in the Andes, near Argentina's border with Chile, and New Zealand's Mount Rolling Pin.
Perkins says she chose Half Dome for her latest climb "because it's broken in half but it still stands strong. There's a spirit-building message there. You may not be 100 percent, but you can still be as strong as others. I'm out there doing things and not worried about being within driving distance of the nearest hospital."
With each ascent, the 5-foot-2, 103-pound Perkins tries to get across the message that transplants can save lives and that transplant recipients can still lead active lives. She also wrote a book, published in 2007, about her struggles, achievements and goals.
Perkins' heart started failing in 1992 after she and her husband returned from a backpacking trip in Europe. The former Lake Tahoe resident, now living in Laguna Niguel, Calif., contracted a virus that made her so weak that Craig had to carry her around their home.
Found to have cardiomyopathy, which inflames heart muscles, Perkins got a new heart at UCLA Medical Center in November 1995 from a woman in her 40s who died in a fall from a horse.
Dr. Jon Kobashigawa, medical director of UCLA Medical Center's transplant program, said he knows of no other woman with a heart transplant who has achieved one high-elevation climb after another, as Perkins has. He likened her to "a type of Lance Armstrong."
Perkins faces problems not encountered by other mountaineers. Transplanted hearts usually lack nerves linking them to the brain, which means Perkins' heart doesn't know when her muscles need more oxygen. She suffers severe shortness of breath until she can establish a pace.
But Kobashigawa said Perkins, through an arduous exercise regimen, may have regrown some of those nerves, enabling a partial response to physical demands on her donor heart. "Sheer will" also is a key factor, he said.
On her ascents, she also has to bring something needed by few other climbers — a backpack crammed with prescription drugs, medical supplies and blood-pressure monitoring gear.
"It's not that I'm a great climber or super-athletic," she said. "I just do my best. What it really represents is that I have the freedom and opportunity and good health to do this, to go out and fully live life, not sit back."
"Someone asked me how long I'm going to do this, now that I'm 46 years old. What am I supposed to do? Roll over and play dead? My time was up before. Now I'm fully functioning and stronger than I've ever been. I'm not slowing down in any way until my body finally tells me, 'No.'"
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On the Internet:
Kelly Perkins: http://www.theclimbofmylife.com
3. Biologist Rescues Black Bear
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080628/BREAKINGNEWS/80628020/1086/rss07
ASSOCIATED PRESS • June 28, 2008
APALACHICOLA — A Florida Fish and Wildlife biologist pulled off a daring rescue Saturday in the Panhandle: He rescued a bear.
Officials say a 375-pound male black bear was seen roaming a residential neighborhood near Alligator Point. The bear was hit with a tranquilizer dart, but he managed to bolt into the Gulf of Mexico before he was sedated.
As the tranquilizer drugs took effect, FWC biologist Adam Warwick jumped in to keep the bear from drowning. He managed to get the bear to shore, and then a backhoe operator helped load the animal to a truck. The bear was relocated to Osceola National Forest near Lake City.
4. 4,500-year-old Mummies Discovered in Chile
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14704621
Saturday, 28 June , 2008, 10:55
Santiago: Eight perfectly preserved mummies, believed to be some 4,500 year old, were found by workers engaged in a restoration project in Chile's far north, Spain's EFE news agency reported on Saturday quoting media report.
"These mummies date back to between 2,000 BC and 5,000 BC." archaeologist Calogero Santoro told the daily El Mercurio.
The mummies are remains of individuals belonging to the Chinchorro culture, which was one of the first to practice mummification and the perfect condition in which the mummies were found is indicative of their advanced techniques. Three of the eight skeletons have been kept on the site in the Morro de Arica site for visitors to see while the other five were taken to Tarapaca University in northern Chile, where other mummies found in previous years are preserved.
Morro de Arica is known for its mummies. Several hundred of them, some as old as 7,000 years, were discovered in 1983 in the area. In 2005, University of Tarapaca archaeologists found 50 Chinchorro mummies, dating back to 4,000 B.C., during the demolition of a house.
The unusually large number of mummies found in the sector indicate that one of the oldest Chinchorro cemeteries may have been located there. The Chinchorros are presumed to have died out or migrated in the first century AD.
The mummies found in northern Chile date back even earlier than the ones discovered in Egypt, making them one of the world's oldest.
5. Ancient Oak Trees Help Reduce Global Warming
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080627163041.htmScienceDaily
June 28, 2008
The battle to reduce carbon emissions is at the heart of many eco-friendly efforts, and researchers from the University of Missouri have discovered that nature has been lending a hand. Researchers at the Missouri Tree Ring Laboratory in the Department of Forestry discovered that trees submerged in freshwater aquatic systems store carbon for thousands of years, a significantly longer period of time than trees that fall in a forest, thus keeping carbon out of the atmosphere.
“If a tree is submerged in water, its carbon will be stored for an average of 2,000 years,” said Richard Guyette, director of the MU Tree Ring Lab and research associate professor of forestry in the School of Natural Resources in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. “If a tree falls in a forest, that number is reduced to an average of 20 years, and in firewood, the carbon is only stored for one year.”
The team studied trees in northern Missouri, a geographically unique area with a high level of riparian forests (forests that have natural water flowing through them). They discovered submerged oak trees that were as old as 14,000 years, potentially some of the oldest discovered in the world. This carbon storage process is not just ancient; it continues even today as additional trees become submerged, according to Guyette.
While a tree is alive, it has a high ability to store carbon, thus keeping it out of the atmosphere. However, as it begins to decay, a tree’s carbon is released back into the atmosphere. Discovering that certain conditions slow this process reveals the importance of proper tree disposal as well as the benefits of riparian forests.
“Carbon plays a huge role in climate change and information about where it goes will be very important someday soon,” said
Michael C. Stambaugh, research associate in the MU Department of Forestry. “The goal is to increase our knowledge of the carbon cycle, particularly its exchange between the biosphere (plants) and atmosphere. We need to know where it goes and for how long in order to know how to offset its effects.”
This could be a valuable find for landowners. Although it is not yet common in North America, emissions trading has been gaining popularity in parts of Europe. Also known as cap and trade, emissions trading works to reduce pollution by setting a limit on the amount of pollutants an organization can emit into the air. If they exceed that number, the group is required to obtain carbon credits. One carbon credit equals one metric ton of carbon-dioxide or other equivalent greenhouse gases.
Carbon credits can be purchased in a variety of ways. Such as: planting new trees or harvesting old wood that has stored carbon; collecting methane from landfills; or purchasing credits from other companies who have a carbon surplus by staying below their emission requirements.
This week, the California Air Resources Board announced the consideration of a large plan to fight global warming. The recommendations include reducing emissions, in part by requiring major polluters to trade carbon credits.
“Farmers can sell the carbon they have stored in their trees through a carbon credit stock market,” Guyette said. “Companies that emit excess of carbon would be able to buy carbon credits to offset their pollution.”
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Journal reference:
Guyette et al. The Temporal Distribution and Carbon Storage of Large Oak Wood in Streams and Floodplain Deposits. Ecosystems,
2008; 11 (4): 643 DOI: 10.1007/s10021-008-9149-9
Adapted from materials provided by University of Missouri-Columbia.
Honorable Mentions:
1. Amsterdam Votes to Ban Polluting Cars from City Centre
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/215347,amsterdam-votes-to-ban-polluting-cars-from-city-centre.html
Posted : Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:08:04 GMT
Author : DPA
Category : Environment
Amsterdam - Amsterdam City Council voted in favour of a bill Friday to ban polluting cars like sports utility vehicles (SUVs) from entering the old city centre. The opposition parties criticized the bill, which it called an "antisocial car plan, instead of a plan to improve the air quality in Amsterdam."
In several parts of Amsterdam city centre the air quality is below the acceptable level. Local politicians have been looking for ways to reduce car traffic.
By prohibiting polluting cars from entering the city, the air quality must improve within the next two years, the councillors said.
Minister for Infrastructure and Traffic Camiel Eurlings (Christian Democrat) said he favoured the government initiating a national policy to improve air quality rather than allowing individual Dutch cities to initiate their own policies.
Previously, the city of Leiden near The Hague prohibited SUVs from entering the city centre.
2. Boaters Rescue Pilot after Pontoon Plane Flips on Columbia River
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_062708_news_pontoon_plane_columbia.4663208d.html06:50 PM PDT on Friday, June 27, 2008
By kgw.com Staff
Pontoon plane flips RAINIER, Ore. -- Boaters helped rescue a pilot after his pontoon plane flipped on the Columbia River Friday afternoon.
Columbia River Fire said the plane flipped upside down while trying to land near the city docks around 5:30 p.m. The pilot was the only person onboard.
Boaters were able to pull the pilot to safety, he suffered minor injuries.
3. New Fossils of Extremely Primitive 4-Legged Creatures Close the Gap Between Fish and Land Animalshttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080625140643.htm
ScienceDaily
June 27, 2008
New exquisitely preserved fossils from Latvia cast light on a key event in our own evolutionary history, when our ancestors left the water and ventured onto land.
Swedish researcher Per Ahlberg from Uppsala University and colleagues have reconstructed parts of the animal and explain the transformation in the new issue of Nature.
It has long been known that the first backboned land animals or "tetrapods" - the ancestors of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including ourselves - evolved from a group of fishes about 370 million years ago during the Devonian period.
However, even though scientists had discovered fossils of tetrapod-like fishes and fish-like tetrapods from this period, these were still rather different from each other and did not give a complete picture of the intermediate steps in the transition.
In 2006 the situation changed dramatically with the discovery of an almost perfectly intermediate fish-tetrapod, Tiktaalik, but even so a gap remained between this animal and the earliest true tetrapods (animals with limbs rather than paired fins).
Now, new fossils of the extremely primitive tetrapod Ventastega from the Devonian of Latvia cast light on this key phase of the transition.
"Ventastega was first described from fragmentary material in 1994; since then, excavations have produced lots of new superbly preserved fossils, allowing us to reconstruct the whole head, shoulder girdle and part of the pelvis", says Professor Per Ahlberg at the Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology, Uppsala University.
The recontructions made by Professor Ahlberg and Assistant Professor Henning Blom together with British and Latvian colleagues show that Ventastega was more fish-like than any of its contemporaries, such as Acanthostega. The shape of its skull, and the pattern of teeth in its jaws, are neatly intermediate between those of Tiktaalik and Acanthostega.
"However, the shoulder girdle and pelvis are almost identical to those of Aanthostega, and the shoulder girdle is quite different from that of Tiktaalik (the pelvis of Tiktaalik is unknown), suggesting that the transformation from paired fins to limbs had already occurred. It appears that different parts of the body evolved at different speeds during the transition from water to land", says Per Ahlberg.
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Journal reference:
Per E. Ahlberg, Jennifer A. Clack, Ervins Luksevics, Henning Blom, Ivars Zupins. Ventastega curonica and the origin of
tetrapod morphology. Nature, 2008; 453 (7199): 1199 DOI: 10.1038/nature06991
Adapted from materials provided by Uppsala University.
4. Ancient Royal Structure Found in Northern Iranhttp://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=61722§ionid=351020105
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:20:32
Iranian archeologists have unearthed an ancient royal structure in the city of Natel located in the northern Mazandaran Province. The quadrangular structure has a number of rooms, surrounded with porticos and a trench, which was filled with water and used to protect the building from attacks.
The monument was constructed with high quality materials and fortified with mortar and three-coat plastering. Findings show that the building previously had beautiful architectural decorations and was ruined during battles.
The first phase of Natel archeological excavations also yielded a six-meter deep trench, built with large stones, mud, lime and plaster, which surrounds the entire city. The city of Natel, located at the heart of Iran's northern forests and west of Mazanadran Province, was destroyed during the Safavid era.
TE/HGH
5. Recyclers Get Bike for Needy Child
http://www.telegram.com/article/20080626/NEWS/806260593/1004/NEWS04
Betty Lilyestrom (508) 892-3454
blilyestrom@telegram.com
Thursday, June 26th 2008
Leicester’s recycling guru, Ruth L. Kaminski, e-mailed the Notebook with a tale about a young immigrant boy whose life she had a hand in recycling.
It seems she heard about a 9-year-old who had just come to town from Santo Domingo with his mother, a former schoolteacher who had been in a bad accident and was handicapped and in a wheelchair. The boy knows no one and just sits on the steps of his apartment complex, watching the other children ride their bikes.
“I stood at Recycling last Saturday telling this story over and over,” she said. “And then John McNaboe brought us a bike that was perfect for a 9-year-old boy — but it needed a new tire. A lady who would not give her name left Recycling, went to cash in her returnable bottles and came back with enough money from the proceeds to purchase a new tire and to buy a helmet, too!
“This is why we keep coming back here for 17 years, every other Saturday,” Ms. Kaminski said. “Miracles happen all the time.”
For those who don’t know, the Recycling Center on Mannville Street is open from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the first, third and fifth Saturdays each month.
And something else to warm your heart — the annual Summer Concert Series will begin next Wednesday on the concert stage at the Town Common. All the concerts will be held on Wednesday evenings unless it rains, in which case they will be held the following evening, in Town Hall if necessary. Concert hours are 7 to 9 p.m. in July, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in August.
The schedule:
July 2, Blackstone Valley Concert Band; Patriotic Concert July 9; Blackstone Valley Bluegrass Band, Bluegrass Night July 16;
The Little Big Band, 40s Swing Concert, July 23; The Pulaski Brass Band Polkas Show, Old Fashioned Band Concert, July 30;
Caribbean for Kids, Fun Program for Children, Aug. 6, Kathy’s Clown, 50s Rock n’ Roll and Cruise Night, Aug. 13; Changes in
Latitude, Buffet Concert, Aug. 20; Mickey Bones and the Hot Tamale Brass Band, Louisiana Jazz Night, Aug. 27.
The project is funded by a grant from the Leicester Arts Council, the Leicester Savings Bank Fund, the McKenna Insurance Co., Country Bank for Savings and audience donations.
Recommended by a Reader:
1. The Power of One is Greater than None:
Mission to Rescue Children from Slavery in Ghana
http://www.firemountaingems.com/aboutus/whatserupting_article.asp?docid=8556&WT.fmg_linksection=575EQO8K1B04&WT.mc_id=NL080624_2 24 June 2008 by Jamie S., Marketing Group
It all began during a school break in April 2007, when eight fourteen-year-old friends from Long Island, NY saw an Oprah episode titled "The Little Boy Oprah Couldn't Forget" featuring a story about enslaved children in Ghana, Africa.
In Ghana, hundreds of children are being sold for as little as $20 into a life of servitude in the fishing trade. They are forced to labor over 15 hours a day rowing huge boats and retrieving miles of filthy fishing nets from the deep waters. Alone, they must endure harsh, dangerous conditions. The children are lucky if they are fed one meal a day and they have no possessions, not even themselves. Their lives consist of excruciating work, fear and isolation.
After watching this moving Oprah episode, the girls were heartbroken knowing this kind of thing was happening, so they decided to raise money to help with the rescue efforts to free enslaved children. Even though they had limited financial and material resources, they were determined to make a difference. For months, the girls talked about starting a charity, but they couldn't answer all of the "who, what, when, where and how" questions. However, each one of them deeply understood the most important question, "Why?"
The girls learned about the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that established a program for people to sponsor the effort of rescuing trafficked children. The girls discovered that they would have to come up with $4,300 to save just one child. The $4,300 is used for initially rescuing one child from brutally dangerous and inhumane conditions. Any remaining money goes towards providing him/her with 2-1/2 years of safe shelter, food, warmth and invaluable education. Even so, it seemed like an insurmountable amount to the teenage girls, but they were determined to succeed.
As the girls worked together, they asked themselves, "What if we can only raise enough to save one child?" That was when they all agreed, "If all our efforts can only save one child, then one is better than none." This simple statement was the beginning of their name, One is Greater than None™ (1>0).
The 1>0 girls decided that the best way to raise money and awareness was by using their jewelry-making skills to make bracelets and necklaces to sell. With every sale, they would not only educate people on what is going on in fishing villages of Ghana, but they would also start to build the amount necessary to save that one child. Their necklace design features eight wooden beads, representing each girl in the 1>0 group, and a single recycled glass bead; made in Ghana; that sits in the center representing a child the 1>0 girls are working to set free.
Jewelry-making supplies can be expensive, and the large scope of raising $4,300 to save just one child made it hard to part with any money they had to buy beads and cord for making jewelry to sell. That was when the girls approached Fire Mountain Gems and Beads to help in any way they could. Fire Mountain Gems and Beads heartily responded to the 1>0 girls' cause by donating gemstone beads and stringing materials to get the girls started on their mission to save children.
All eight of the 1>0 girls committed themselves to making thousands of handmade bracelets and necklaces after school. Their jewelry was packaged on simple cards that shared the story behind their cause and directed people to their website, www.oneisbetterthannone.org where more information could be found about their mission and why they were doing it.
So many great things have come from what the 1>0 girls have started. A fantastic website was generously donated, which increased their ability to sell handmade jewelry and 1>0 clothing that tells the story of the enslaved children of Ghana. Other donations that helped them succeed in raising money included printing, legal consultation and photography by people wanting to contribute in any way they can to help save the trafficked children in Ghana.
Through overwhelming nationwide support, the girls were quickly able to raise enough money to save one child, then a second. Their cause was soon discovered and published by Teen Vogue, CBS News, ABC News and The Martha Stewart Show. After such support from the press, the 1>0 girls' proceeds were enough to save an amazing total of eight more children! Of the 36 children freed in the rescue mission in January of 2008, eight of them were sponsored by the effort spearheaded by the 1>0 girls. Shortly after that, they earned enough to return for two more children. Within six months, 1>0 raised enough money to save 10 more children, and the girls hope to sponsor a full rescue mission, a minimum of 25 children, soon.
There are still over 424 children working for 800 fishermen on five islands in Ghana. Through the sale of jewelry, 1>0 clothing and donations, they hope to be able to sponsor more rescues in the near future.
Throughout their website and in interviews, the girls say over and over, "Your support, whether it's a donation or a purchase, is telling these children that they have not been forgotten. It's because of YOU that a child will receive that soft tap on the shoulder by a rescuer telling them 'It's over. Your nightmare is over and we have come to take you home.' That $1 donation, that 1 bracelet or necklace, that 1 article of clothing from the apparel line is giving a child their life back."
The girls won't quit until every child is set free. You can help. A purchase of one bracelet can make a difference to these children. The 1>0 girls have proven that. They encourage each person to be a part of the equation. If you would like more information, updates or want to take part in the 1>0 efforts to free children in Ghana, visit their website at www.oneisgreaterthannone.org. The website has a link to a video on YouTube of the girls' first year, showing how the simple task of making jewelry turned into an amazing year of thousands of people becoming "part of the equation."
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