WAF just wants to say "Thank You!" to all of our friends!
Friday, July 1, 2011
WAF & The NAOBF!
WAF just wants to say "Thank You!" to all of our friends!
Friday, June 17, 2011
North American Organic Beer Festival 2011
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| NAOBF! |
It's that time of the year again...and WAF will be back at the NAOBF! Come by and visit with us here in Portland, Oregon up in Overlook Park June 24-26! - This is a family friendly event....Please check out the link for details!
You can pick up something beautiful and do something beautiful at the same time!
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| Moreno Glass Bracelets |
Want to buy something but, don't want to carry it around? - Check it with us until you are ready to go home!
We hope to see you there! Your help will fund projects!
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| One Style of Moreno Glass Rings! |
Friday, April 8, 2011
WAF Charity Booth at The Spring Beer & Wine Fest in PDX!
The World Action Foundation will be back in Booth #52 again this year at the Spring Beer & Wine Fest here in Portland, Oregon on Friday and Saturday April 22 & 23, 2011!!
The Festival is not only Beer & Wine! It also includes the "Tour de Cheese", distillers, gourmet foods, arts, interesting products, a chef's stage and great live music!
"While you're sipping on fine craft beer, wine, spirits and cocktails, do a little shopping! Our arts and craft vendors and exhibitors offer unique treasures and interesting items. Or chill out in the attached heated outdoor smoker's tent. And don't forget: Admission is free to the first 1000 each day.
The Spring Beer & Wine Fest may be about education, but school has never been this much fun!
The Spring Beer & Wine Fest encourages responsible consumption. Minors accompanied by an adult are permitted until 7:00pm each day. Children 12 & under are free."
The Spring Beer & Wine Fest may be about education, but school has never been this much fun!
The Spring Beer & Wine Fest encourages responsible consumption. Minors accompanied by an adult are permitted until 7:00pm each day. Children 12 & under are free."
The festival is held at the Oregon Convention Center and can be reached by TriMet with a MAX stop right in front on the center!
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| The late great Don Younger at the Fest in 2010 |
We Hope to see you there!! Stop by the booth and check us out!
Sunday, February 27, 2011
WAF's New Partnership with "Street Girl's Aid"
WAF is partnering with the "Street Girl's Aid" organization in Accra, Ghana and will begin fund raising and planning the first joint projects soon!
This organization operates a school, training center and a safe shelter for young street girls who are pregnant or have an infant.
They do some fantastic work and we are very excited to start working together.
Please stay tuned for more details!!
This organization operates a school, training center and a safe shelter for young street girls who are pregnant or have an infant.
They do some fantastic work and we are very excited to start working together.
Please stay tuned for more details!!
The Ghanaian Street Child
The Ghanaian Street Child:
Through the use of various “head-counts” S.Aid and its partners estimate that the city of Accra is home to over 25,000 street children. This number is increasing at a staggering pace. In 1999, when the first study was completed by the University of Ghana, there were only 5,000 street children. The street chil...d is defined as a person who is under the age of 18 who lives and works on the street and does not have any financial support. We are now seeing a growing population of second generation street children – children of street mothers who are born into street life.
Most street girls work long hours for a mere pittance. Girls will toil in the markets selling food or ice water and many serve as porters - carrying heavy loads on their heads that seem to defy the frailty of their neck. With the number of street children increasing every day, even these jobs are becoming increasingly scarce and as an unfortunate consequence, prostitution is becoming a main source of income for some street girls. At night, they mostly sleep in the open air, rain or shine, on small mats or cardboard. These children usually sleep in groups to protect and support each other.
Most have migrated from the rural north; however, street children come from every region of Ghana. Their reason for being on the street is mainly due to family breakdown (86%, culled from Ghanaian Street Child 2003 – a book written by Catholic Action for Street Children). Other reasons are related to poverty and lack of basic infrastructure in the rural areas, peer-pressure, and urbanization. Girls also may escape to a life on the streets in Accra to escape a forced marriage in their village. Girl’s as young as fourteen can be married to elderly men as an additional wife.
Many street children have never attended school or have left school at different stages of education. More than half have not completed primary school.
New children arrive in Accra each day only to become street children.
Through the use of various “head-counts” S.Aid and its partners estimate that the city of Accra is home to over 25,000 street children. This number is increasing at a staggering pace. In 1999, when the first study was completed by the University of Ghana, there were only 5,000 street children. The street chil...d is defined as a person who is under the age of 18 who lives and works on the street and does not have any financial support. We are now seeing a growing population of second generation street children – children of street mothers who are born into street life.
Most street girls work long hours for a mere pittance. Girls will toil in the markets selling food or ice water and many serve as porters - carrying heavy loads on their heads that seem to defy the frailty of their neck. With the number of street children increasing every day, even these jobs are becoming increasingly scarce and as an unfortunate consequence, prostitution is becoming a main source of income for some street girls. At night, they mostly sleep in the open air, rain or shine, on small mats or cardboard. These children usually sleep in groups to protect and support each other.
Most have migrated from the rural north; however, street children come from every region of Ghana. Their reason for being on the street is mainly due to family breakdown (86%, culled from Ghanaian Street Child 2003 – a book written by Catholic Action for Street Children). Other reasons are related to poverty and lack of basic infrastructure in the rural areas, peer-pressure, and urbanization. Girls also may escape to a life on the streets in Accra to escape a forced marriage in their village. Girl’s as young as fourteen can be married to elderly men as an additional wife.
Many street children have never attended school or have left school at different stages of education. More than half have not completed primary school.
New children arrive in Accra each day only to become street children.
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