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Synergy and Resilience

11 Friday Sep 2015

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Hello Friends,

If you haven’t checked out the humanitarian arm of Barbara Scoville LCSW, take a  peek at the website www. pioneersofpeace.org. This site, created by myself is designed to cultivate compassion and provide opportunities to give back to your community and the world. There is a wonderful synergy that takes place in the space between giver and receiver. I hope you are making room for it in your life because it is the energy that gives rise to resilience and wisdom.

Currently we are hosting a project called “Operation Love Bundles.” If you have been following this blog, you may recall we did the same thing last February for Valentine’s Day. lovebundlesOct

Essentially we are collecting needed items for our homeless youth to brave the impending cold weather. In Salt Lake City alone, there are over 500 homeless youth, many who are sleeping on the streets and in the canyons.

Our goal is to assemble 200 “Love Bundles” and donate them to VOA Homeless Youth Resource Center by Oct 22.

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Each bundle consists of

  • fleece scarf (Check out the scarf making tutorial at www.pioneersofpeace.org)
  • protein bar
  • pair of new socks
  • handwarmers
  • lip balm
  • paper crane with a inspirational quote written on it

We are asking for donations of hand warmers, new socks, protein bars and handmade fleece scarfs.

While you are out shopping this weekend please remember our homeless youth and throw a package of one of these items in your cart.

Contact me at barbarascoville@pioneersofpeace. org for drop off locations.

Hugs,

Barbara

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The Thanks “giving” Cup Campaign

13 Sunday Oct 2013

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This is the reason. It's called stunted growth syndrome and it is irreversible. Can you imagine your child having a brain like the one on the right because you didn't have enough food to feed him or her?

This is the reason. It’s called stunted growth syndrome and it is irreversible. Can you imagine your child having a brain like the one on the right because you didn’t have enough food to feed him or her?

Join me and many others in fighting world hunger this Thanksgiving by saving your spare change between now and Thanksgiving Day and donating it to The School Feeding Program, which is a division of the United Nation‘s World Food Program

Begin by choosing a meaningful cup and start emptying your jingling pockets and bulging wallets into it.

Search under your couch cushions for all of the spare change you can find and send your little children on a quest to find every lost coin hiding in your home and car.

Dig out your old purses and rescue the loose change that is waiting patiently at the bottom to be used for a wise purpose.

The change I found at the bottom of all of my purses. Translation: 23 school meals

The change I found at the bottom of all of my purses. Translation: 23 school meals

What might be clutter to you, could be a meal for a starving child.

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Participating Cups

On Thanksgiving Day add up your change, go to http://www.wfp.org and press the red cup donation button in the top right hand corner of the screen.

This will pull up the donation page. Be sure to click on the school feeding program button.

Last night I made a $10.00 donation to see how it works. I am happy to report it was as easy as pie 🙂 And my $10.00 donation will provide 40 school meals!

That is the best bang for any buck I have ever spent! On top of that I got an oxytocin rush that just keeps coming every time I think about how happy I am that I donated $10.00 instead of spending it at McDonald’s.

The School Feeding Program feeds over 20 million children each day, which is only a fraction of the vast need. Each nutritionally balanced meal is only 25 cents. That means when you spent $20.00 on sushi you could have fed 80 children. Shocking huh!

Hunger Facts

1.    870 million people do not have enough food to eat

2.    98% of the worlds undernourished people live in developing countries

3.    Asia and the Pacific have the highest number of hungry comprising 578 million people, followed by Sub-Saharan Africa with 239 million people, and then Latin America and the Caribbean with 53 million people

4.    Malnutrition is the key factor contributing to one-third of all global deaths (2.6 million per year)

5.    Every 10 seconds, a child dies from hunger related diseases

images6.  There is enough food in the world today for everyone to have the nourishment necessary for a healthy and productive life

PIONEERS OF PEACE WALK NOT JUST TALK

Walk with me. Please

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Spread the word that we can make a difference this Thanksgiving; a holiday in which we celebrate abundance and gratitude. How can we not share?

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Educate yourself by spending just 20 minutes watching the Ted Talk below 

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Make a Difference This Thanksgiving

06 Sunday Oct 2013

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Greetings Friends,

Ok, I know I’m going out on a limb here, but I am going to have courage and share something that is very special to me.

As many of you know, the cause of fighting world hunger is very close to my heart. One of the primary reasons I began this blog almost 1 year ago, was to eventually launch a charitable foundation called, “Pioneers of Peace.” In the past year I have secured the copyright to that title. I have also applied for the copyright to “Pioneers of Peace Walk, Not Just Talk.”

It was my hope that I would spend a year gathering a following, and then launch my foundation. Sadly I have not gained the following I would’ve liked, and so when I ask you to be a part of this I am taking a leap of faith.

I was going to wait until January, but Friday morning something happened. I know now is the time; though the response might be small.

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This is what happened…I was catching up on Facebook when I saw The World Food Program‘s latest plea for help. It was a picture much like all of the others; a little girl holding an iconic green cup (I like the red ones better) advertising the school feeding program which is so near and dear to my heart.

Then it happened…I saw the gruel inside of the green cup transform into coins. Tears came to my eyes and I decided in that moment I was personally going to get an appropriate cup and fill it with all of my spare change between now and Thanksgiving.

On Thanksgiving Day as an expression of gratitude for my abundance I will donate the change to The World Food Program’s School Feeding Program.

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The thought didn’t stop there. I saw not only one cup brimming with coins, but many. That’s when I knew it was time to ask others to join me, knowing that together we could make a significant contribution.

Everyone has a change jar. As my son has reminded me, those jars are often people’s Disneyland Fund. That may be true, but really? Can’t we donate our change to children who are starving and under the threat of stunted growth syndrome for approximately two months starting today. What better way is there to teach your children about gratitude and charity?

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It only takes 25 cents to provide all of the necessary nutritional requirements for one child per day. How many meals can you provide?

Mother Theresa said, “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”

So I am asking you. Please join me in being a Pioneer of Peace by finding a cup worthy of such a collection, and begin saving your spare change. Let us Walk Not Just Talk and share our abundance with those less fortunate on Thanksgiving.  I will be providing more details shortly, but for now please pass the word along.

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My cup

Send me a picture of your cup  ( barbarascovillelcsw@gmail.com) and I will post it for all to see. LET’S DO IT because PIONEERS OF PEACE WALK NOT JUST TALK

Thanks everyone 🙂

Love,

Barbara (The Blog Whisperer)

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