Be a humanitarian like Angelina Jolie

by Sherry on July 20th, 2007

On this Friday afternoon, I’m going to break from the norm and get a little personal mixed with a bit of activism.

As you all know, I’ve been writing this blog for awhile now. I also write my own personal blog titled Chaos Theory. Over there I write about family life for the most part with a little of this and a little of that thrown in.

If you’ve followed blogs for awhile, you may have heard of The Blogathon. You can find out info at that link, but the short version is, bloggers who are potentially a little crazy sign on to post to their blog every half hour for 24 straight hours for charity. Each blogger chooses a charity that is important to them and attempts to get sponsors.

I am one of the crazy bloggers who has agreed to forego sleep next weekend. On July 28th, at 9 am Eastern Time, I will begin posting on my personal blog. I will continue to do so every 30 minutes until July 29th at 9 am Eastern Time. What does this have to do with you and THIS blog?

Well, I mention it because I am blogging for a charity near and dear to Angelina Jolie’s heart - I am attempting to raise money for the UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. I did the blogathon three years ago and I raised over $300 for the UNHCR. It is only because of Angelina Jolie that I was ever even aware of the organization and what refugees go through, especially children.

Right now I have a total of $48 worth of pledges. If you would like to help you should know that:

$50 helps register 150 exhausted refugees to assess their needs and trace their families
$80 provides tents to shelter a family of five
$100 gives a family a survival kit including blankets plus a cooking/heating stove
$200 pays for emergency health for a community
$500 creates two wells to provide clean water to a community of refugees
$1000 gives a feeding kit that will feed 100 children

So of course I’m hoping to raise as much money as possible for this group that Angie has worked with for so many years. I may not be able to travel to war and poverty stricken countries but I can do my best.

I would love it if any of you would be willing to step into the role of humanitarian like Angie and sponsor me. Some important things for you to know about sponsoring me are:

Perhaps most importantly, no money ever goes to me. You do not give me money in the hopes that I will be honest enough to give it to the UNHCR. Rather, I trust your honor by blogging for 24 hours while hoping that when you will indeed make your donation when it’s over.
To sponsor me, you must go to this page where you will be asked to create an account.
Once you’ve created your account you can go straight in and make your pledge which can either be a lump sum or a certain amount per hour that I complete.
After that, you do nothing until the blogathon is over. At that time, you’ll receive an email with instructions that will include the amount you pledged to donate to the UNHCR, and a direct link to the UNHCR’s online donation page.
That’s it!

I don’t normally cross-post between my various blogs, as they are all very separate entities. However, because we talk so often about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and all the charity work they do and because so many of you say you admire Angie for all her humanitarian efforts, I thought it was worth mentioning.

Please feel free to ask me any questions that you might still have about the process. In the meantime, I hope you’ll donate to a worthy cause that Angelina herself endorses. And please remember that not even one penny comes to me, this is not about me making money for myself, this is about me being crazy enough to blog for 24 straight hours with two children under the age of five. (This is going to take a lot of coffee and chocolate, I’d better stock up now.)

Thanks!

For making it through all this, here’s a present:

Oldies but goodies since they’re away on vacation:

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

I’m offline for most of the weekend so here’s a great video too:

Enjoy!

(Top photo courtesy unhcr.org, other photos courtesy google image search)

Technorati Tags: angelina jolie, UNHCR, United Nations, blogathon

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