Sarah McLachlan - World On Fire


Update: I should point out the above video is several years old, but I was reminded of it while visiting Swivel recently and felt like this was just the kind of information that needed to be broadcast on a more regular basis.

CHARITY

FOR

AMOUNT

TOTAL DONATION
Carolina for Kibera • 12 room clinic and land deeds

• Medicine for 5000 people for 6 months in Nairobi Kenya

• $22,500
• $7,500		 $30,000
Comic Relief • Running street children’s hospital in India for a year
… Feeding 10 street children in Calcutta 3 meals daily for 1 year
• Schooling for 100 street children in Tanzania
• Education for 200 students in Ethiopia

• $11,050
• $3,000
• $2,500
• $400		 $16,950
CARE USA • Building of 6 wells in S.E Asia, Latin America & Africa
• Helping 100 widows to develop income generating activities in Afghanistan

• Sending 145 girls to school for one year in Afghanistan
• Equipping 10 classrooms in Afghanistan
• Training 10 teachers in Afghanistan

 • $10,200
• $5,400
• $5,000

• $480
• $400

$21,480
DORCAS • Total running costs of orphanage in South Africa
• Improving the lives of 10 elderly people in Eastern Europe		 • $16,500
• $3,500		 $20,000
Engineers Without Borders - Canada • To purchase and implement a Multi-Function Platform in Ghana

• Christy Yaa: scholarships
• Nana Yaa: scholarships

 • $15,000
• $1,000
• $1,000		 $17,000
Help the Aged • Mobile Medical Unit (MMU) vehicle providing medical treatments • $15,000 $15,000
Film Aid • Entertainment & escapism for refugees • $9,500 $9,500
War Child • 70 former child soldiers to receive schooling & psychosocial support
• 7 young people in Sierra Leone to receive job training
• Education, shelter & food for orphans in Ethiopia

• $3,500
• $1,500

• $500

$5,500
Heifer International • 1 heifer, 2 goats, 1 buffalo
• 2 sheep, 4 goats, 2 llamas and 1 heifer
• A pig
• Chicks
• Ducks 		• $1,000

• $1,500
• $120
• $20
• $20
• $20

$2680
ITDG • Scheme which would allow 300 families to remove smoke from their homes

• 10 smoke hoods
• 5 bicycle ambulances
• Nuts & bolts to secure houses of monsoon victims
• Sudanese irrigation

• $1,925

• $250
• $1,300
• $500
• $1025

$5000
Action Aid • To aid and implement programs in Khlaipathar village, Orissa, India to encourage families to be able to stay together
• 5000lbs potato seeds for planting vegetable gardens		 • $5000
• $160		  
$5160
 

TOTAL

  

$148,270

So what’s this have to do with XML?

XML frees information. The above information is free.

Either that, or not a damn thing. And that’s okay.

On a related note, I sure wish there were more rock stars on this planet like Sarah McLachlan, don’t you?