What Can I Do To Help?

Dear Ones-

As the refugee crisis in Europe worsens, so does the refugee crisis in Lebanon and surrounding countries. Thousands of people are streaming out of Syria on a daily basis with nothing but the clothes on their backs. They are faced with impossible choice of trying to find sanctuary in Europe, or finding refuge in the horribly overcrowded camps in Lebanon. There is just no good answer. The camp conditions in all places are getting worse…children are dying of disease and exposure to the elements. Aid to the camps in Lebanon is drying up or completely absent. Europe cant keep up in any way shape or form with the hundreds of thousands of displaced victims of war. In both places it is worse than anyone could ever imagine. This truly is by far THE WORST HUMANITARIAN CRISIS any of us have ever seen. I know everyone feels helpless, but the fact of the matter is that most of the help people are getting is because of us. The governments of the world have failed them. Its truly up to us. Every penny counts more than ever. So what can you do?

1) Educate- tell anyone and everyone what is really happening. Show them pictures. Post on social media. Empower people to act.
2) Get involved: Write your congressman. Leave messages on the white house website, start a petition to send to your state senator…show them that these people have THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE on their side.
3) Donate. We are having a bake sale and organizing other fund raisers to send funds to a camp in Lebanon for my and Nisreen Nasser’s outreach effort and to raise money to send volunteers to Europe to help.
4) Start a movement: You can organize and fundraise as well! Decide what moves you and do it. If its not this cause, and it’s something close to home that’s great! All acts of compassion are beneficial to all others on the planet.
5) KNOW THAT YOU ARE A VEHICLE FOR CHANGE! Your voice, Your love, Your will is what the world needs. It is time for a shift. Start a love revolution and show the capitalist construct that we live in that MONEY does not change the world- LOVE does.
SHARE THIS WIDE AND FAR. WE WILL NOT BE SILENT ANYMORE!

EMPATHY BUILDS BRIDGES-COMPASSION REMINDS US OF WHO WE ARE -LOVE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD!!!!!!