Amnesty International against Child Soldiers
January 23, 2008 at 3:36 pm | In Life |Tags: ai, Amnesty International, Charity, child execution, child soldiers, donation
Yesterday I joined amnesty international, coincidentally 7 days after friend Lenina became a member (maybe I would not have been that susceptible to their message if she hadn’t). It’s only going to cost me a few cents a day, and once I am in a more comfortable financial situation, I am going to increase the amount to donate in a year. They got me with their initiative to rehabilitate child soldiers - but there is not a single cause in their portfolio that I wouldn’t subscribe to.
Still in Germany, I supported an animal rights organization for a while whose board members have now received a six years sentence for the misappropriation (?) of donations. Jeez! I guess I can rule out such a scenario in the case of ai. I am glad to be once again supporting a charity organization - one of the few things one can do as a person who was luckily born in our posh Western civilization.

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AI is a good organization. I’ve been an off and on again member for several years. I was unaware of their child soldiers campaign. I’ll renew too. Thanks for putting me in mind of it.
Comment by skunkcabbage — January 23, 2008 #
great stuff! I’ll be doing some more once I’ve got all my finances in place. I used to sponsor the Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group
My next ’cause’ will be cats.
Comment by lenina — January 24, 2008 #