http://www.orphanassist.com/blog 143 million orphans worldwide Fri, 22 May 2009 14:45:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en During the week of May 24 through May 31st AustinLifestyles.com, The Spring, BHI, and RegistrationAssistant are hosting a visitor from the Netherlands, Paul Geurts of MyNameisE.com. He is bringing the first prototypes of a social networking and business card connector to Austin, Texas.  If you’re around Austin next week and ... http://www.orphanassist.com/blog/?p=20 27 Apr 2009 by FXB USA Tags: My Experience with Orphans Started in 2004, African Orphan Outreach works in Kenya to help address the AIDS orphan crisis, which has left nearly 1.7 million Kenyan children orphaned. With the mission of bringing love, hope and care to orphaned children in ... http://www.orphanassist.com/blog/?p=18 AUSTIN, Texas (Feb 11, 2009) -- OrgSync, Inc (OrgSync.com) is excited to announce its successful campaign to raise $1500 for Charity: Water using social media. On Tuesday, February 3, 2009, OrgSync’s team launched a social media campaign to raise awareness for the importance of clean, safe drinking water around the ... http://www.orphanassist.com/blog/?p=17 What’s a Twestival? By rallying together globally, under short timescales, for a single aim on the same day, the Twestival hopes to bring awareness to the global water crisis. Live Earth is the global video partner for Twestival events occuring next Thursday, February 12 in more than 185 cities worldwide ... http://www.orphanassist.com/blog/?p=14 My cool app for today has to be "flickriver"; it's well named as it delivers a river of pictures that just keep on going from flickr. I used their embed badge to create a river of Austin images.  It's fairly awesome. Tags: flickr, austin, texas, pictures, photos, flickriver, ... http://www.orphanassist.com/blog/?p=13 Paul Terry Walhus and Kimberlie Dykeman interview folks at the Lynn Bender GeekAustin party on Sept 30, 2008 at the Union Park bar and restaurant on West 6th Street in Austin, Texas. Julie Gomoll of LaunchPad, Silona of the Transparent Federal Budget and Austin Aaron are a few of the ... http://www.orphanassist.com/blog/?p=12 Here’s the schedule of events for Twestival 2009 at Ace's in Austin, TX on Feb 128:00 Meet and mingle8:50 A word from sponsors9:00 Twestival Sumo Smackdown (see video below)10:00 Presentation by Glimmer of Hope, a non-profit that drills wells in Africa10:45 Performance by T-Bird and the Breaks, one of Austin’s ... http://www.orphanassist.com/blog/?p=11 Twestival is going to be held around the world on Thursday, March 12.  It is the biggest twitter festival ever and has been set up to support the billion plus people in the world without clean drinking water.  It’s a fundamental cause that needs your support.  The Austin event will ... http://www.orphanassist.com/blog/?p=10 WASHINGTON -- Largely because of the AIDS crisis, nearly one-quarter of all children in Zimbabwe are orphans, a figure that approaches historic levels set in Rwanda after the genocide in 1994, according to a new national survey. The study, specialists said, shows the accelerating devastation of families in a region that ... http://www.orphanassist.com/blog/?p=8 According to UNICEF, there are 143 million children in the world who have lost one or both parents. Steven Curtis Chapman's youngest daughter, Maria, who died in May. In America alone, there are half a million children in foster care, and approximately 120,000 of these children are waiting to be ... http://www.orphanassist.com/blog/?p=3