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About
'How Can I Not?' was inspired by many of Earth's unsettling tragedies. These include the situations in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone, Darfur, and the sex slave trade in the world and the United States of America. In response to people inquiring, "Why would you want to help?", or "how could you help?" the question I ask is "How can I not help?" It seems a natural response to seeing these injustices occurring would stir up a desire to help.
This space is designed to provide reliable information based upon facts about the issues listed above. From this we hope you will ACT. Whether through writing to our government, collecting/donating money, to even going to areas of hurt and physically providing relief. The worst thing someone can do with knowledge is to not do anything at all.
Here you can add your input, feelings, experiences, and even shed light on other areas of injustice occurring in the world today.
Lastly, this site is not intended to be political. It was not designed out of bitterness or wanting to point blame, but it was created out of compassion and on a foundation of love.
Issues - see all 5
Althoff Family Missions (a response to the sex slave trade) May 26
This is an excerpt from the Althoff Family Missions VIRB page:
On May 24th-June 11th, Jannelle and I are taking a trip to Cambodia to document stories of redemption for children who have been abducted into child sex slavery. We will be teaming up with a close friend of mine, Anthony Lee, who is leading a team small of videographers from Youth With A Mission here in Denver. Anthony has been developing close contacts for over the last year and is serious about ending human trafficking within our lifetime. Our hope through this trip is to raise awareness globally by producing a documentary on the redemptive side of child sex slavery. Restoration is the most important piece after rescuing these children from harms way. With your help we can raise money to build more safe houses for these children to be nourished, restored, and have an everlasting and loving community around them.
Northern Uganda Jun 13
The situation in Northern Uganda has been getting worse for the past twenty years, while The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has been terrorizing the people there. According to U.N. Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland, "the humanitarian situation in Northe...
Sex Slave Trade/ Human Trafficing May 28
Sierra Leone May 28
Luckily, recent news has brought us the story of justice being served.
This is from an AP writer CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY:
"Three former Sierra Leonean military leaders were found guilty of war crimes Wednesday (June 20th) by a U.N.-backed court -- the first verdicts from...
Comments - see all 6
Great work-- thanks for letting us know what's going on. Come see our new project in sustainable design for the homeless.
posted Apr 8
Be sure to visit the blog too:
posted Jan 27
posted Aug 2
thanks for stoppin by. take care-blake
posted Jun 15
What up Michael!!! Ryan
posted May 22
Althoff Family Missions says:
We just updated our blog online and you can download our newsletter in PDF format if you wish on the front page. Its got a ton more info and pics about our trip in Cambodia. go here:http://blog.beradiantmedia.com/ : to read all the stuff. There is a lot more to come! Greg + Jannelle Althoff
posted 1 week ago