'663 million people in the world do not have access to safe water. This is roughly one in nine of the world's population.
Half of the world’s hospital beds are filled with people suffering from water related diseases. (UN)
The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns. (UN)
443 million school days are lost each year due to water related illness. (WHO/UNICEF)
Women and children collectively walk 200 million miles a day to collect, often dirty and unsafe, water.
1.5 million children die every year due to water related diseases.'

While i am writing this post i am drinking water. Clean and fresh water. To think that so many people do not have access to clean water is perplexing. Something so customary to us is a rarity to so many people.

22nd March was World Water Day. A day meant to raise awareness to the importance of water and help those who are in need of it.

DROP 4 DROP is an organization that does just that. They work in Africa, India and in emergency cases. They have helped out with water solutions in response to Hurricane Felix in Nicaragua, the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, the Pakistan floods, the 2011 East African drought and hurricane Haiyan in the Philippines. You can find out more about it here: http://drop4drop.org/projects/category/emergency/

There are many ways you can help too:

You can fund a dedicated well: http://drop4drop.org/get-involved/dig

Donate to a project: http://drop4drop.org/donate-dollars/

You can help by organizing fundraising: http://drop4drop.org/get-involved/fundraising

Spread the word: http://drop4drop.org/get-involved/donate-voice

If you want to find out more about their work or discuss a partnership to give clean water, you can contact them on this email: info@drop4drop.org or call: 08456345030.

This is an organization that was founded by Neferteri Plessy. Neferteri is a TV personality, model and a television producer and she herself is a single mom of two boys and knows first hand the struggles and challenges single moms have to face.

The goal of the organization is to empower single moms and through Life Classes help them strive in the five key areas: Self-Image, Relationships, Finances, Spirituality and Service.


They organize events, award ceremonies, have fun recipes and beauty tips and i think most importantly they have built a community where women can connect and build friendships with each other and in that process help themselves, which i think is a wonderful thing.

If you are a single mom, hopefully this organization will be helpful and informative to you or if you know someone that is a single mom, please share it with them. It might help.

Power to the badass single moms out there. You rock! :)

Stray Cat Alliance is an organization which goal is to educate and empower the community to advocate for every cat’s right to be safe, healthy and valued. Their wish is to build a no kill nation, one stray at a time.

They have rescued 20 cats from Kern County Shelter and are planning to go back and rescue 34 more cats, but they need room for them. They are asking for fostering. If anyone can foster in California, Arizona,Oregon and Washington please contact them. If anyone can help with shy and scared cats, and 3 of them which are acting aggressive please contact them. Here is the application: 

Foster Application




March 26th is the last day the shelter will keep the remaining 34 cats alive. Not much time is left! They need urgently to get out of there. Anyone in California, Arizona or Oregon that can help and foster please do so.

If you have any more questions, you can send an email for more information to: Admin@StrayCatAlliance.org

Original post: Operation Kern 100
Stray Cat Alliance Official page. 
Stray Cat Alliance Facebook page.  
Stray Cat Alliance Twitter page. 
Stray Cat Alliance Youtube page. 

I found this on Tumblr and thought it would be good to post here. Link to the original post:

My dog needs your help

"Hello everyone,

Usually when you think about selfies, what comes to mind is fun, funny, beautiful pictures of yourself, your friends, your family etc. Nobody would actually think about it as a form of suffering. Sadly, this is what it is for the polar bear in a shopping center in China.

Even sadder is the fact that the polar bear is not alone, he is just one of a number of animals stuck within the Grandview shopping centre in Guangzhou. There are six young belugas, five walrus calves, a wolf and arctic foxes. The media calls it "The World's Saddest Zoo":

Pressure increases on “World’s Saddest Zoo” after Animals Asia report


Animals Asia, an organization for animal welfare founded in 1998 has launched a petition to help save these abused animals.

Animals Asia Animal Welfare Director Dave Neale said:

“There is no excuse for any animal to be trapped this way but it’s widely believed that polar bears are one of the hardest of all animals to effectively provide for in captivity. Polar bears often exhibit ‘stereotypic’ behavior as captivity restricts their natural instincts such as the need to forage.

Polar bears require huge amounts of space. Large enough for them to walk, run, climb and hunt. The list of what they need is very long - to a point whereby you can only really answer that what a polar bear really ‘needs’ is to be free to live life in the wild.

This bear has no peace and nothing natural to take comfort in.  What’s more information on how best to try to meet the complex physical and behavioral needs of captive polar bears is freely available and yet this animal has been willfully incarcerated in this way.

We are calling on the Chinese public not to attend this attraction. We are calling for it to be closed down. This is a bear that suffers for what? For selfies? For shopping?

Controversy has continued to dog the Grandview aquarium. Amid numerous critical reports it has been claimed that Guangzhou Ocean and Fishery Bureau is investigating the facility following rumors that animals died or were hurt when being moved into the aquarium.

Meanwhile Chinese social media posts have suggested unconfirmed deaths and subsequent replacement of animals. It is also believed that there is little or no on-site vet care."


It is understandable that people like seeing wild animals in real life, as close as you can get to them, but is it really worth the suffering these animals are going through? Is a selfie really worth abusing these animals? Letting them live in desperation till they finally die? I don't think so. Hopefully you don't too.

We can stop this abuse. The more people speak up against it the more attention will this situation create and then things will start to change. Here is the link for the petition from Animals Asia:

Today Animals Asia asks you to add your voice to close Grandview Aquarium

Please sign and share this petition with friends and family. We can save these beautiful animals and stop their suffering.



For more information about Animals Asia, what they do and other actions they organize and you can take go visit their official site: Animals Asia.