Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

All Tomorrow’s Charities

Selected charity will get adopted by Tomorrow for 3 months. They will be placed prominently on Tomorrow with a paypal donation button. All money raised via Tomorrow will be given to the adopted charity.

Tomorrow.sg needs your help to locate a suitable charity to donate moolah to. With so many charities out there, they need suggestions as to which organizations are truly needy and are striving to make the world a better place. There are some rules of course (insert NKF joke here), but please go and suggest a charity you know of.

Personally, I think this is a great campaign. It takes so little to give back to society and with the intarweb linking all of us, it is now easier then EVAR to help the less fortunate.

Let me share with you the worst thing I have ever done in my life, that still haunts me to this very day.

I was 16 years old and went on a school trip to a home for abandoned kids. Most of the kids there were mentally retarded or deformed. The smell was bad and the kids were really pitiful. The home lacked funds because it was totally funded by donations and ran by an Indian man who decided that he wanted to make a difference. One of the kids was not mentally retarded. She was partially blind and had to sit in a wheelchair all day long because her legs were all wrong.

I spoke to her.She was the same age as me and her parents had abandoned her here because she was a burden. She hated it because she wanted to go to school to learn to read and write plus she was lonely as hell. The other kids frightened her and she was living in hell.

I promised to visit her every other weekend and she was so happy that she cried.

But I never went back. Evar. Because I hated the place. Because I was a coward. Because I was a kid and had more interesting things to do. Because I was a liar.

I always wondered what happened to her. I still remember what she looks like. I still remember the smell. So everytime somebody asks me for a donation that goes to some charity that looks after kids like her, I give as much as I can.

Because I can’t turn back the clock, but I can make amends for what I’ve done.

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I want to do my part for disabled kids also. Even though I don’t quite like screaming healthy kids, but I absolutely pity those little folks who might not have a chance to live their lives fully.

I will also be participating in WMD’s events after September to help kids and women who are forced into prostitution and stuck in the poverty cycle. I am very lucky to be here in Singapore lor.

let me suggest something -

the children cancer foundation

You could try and find out what has become of her if it haunts you that much!

I think a good charity is the Singapore Children’s Society… I think giving to kids is a good cause.. or not the MILK funds for unpriveleged children is also a good one..

There’s a LOT we can each do. Don’t be haunted by the past — you’re right, make amends. Choose to make a difference TODAY to someone else. It can be some jurassic auntie on the street, or the bunch of kids on Orchard Road collecting money for MILK — just put one dollar in EVERY tin can you come across. Try it, it’s FUN!

Then you can come and help me at WMD — we’ll be visiting HOME (www.home.org.sg) and they have a wing for abused men.

I suggest the Make-a-wish foundation, which helps terminally ill children make one of their wishes come true…