...MY FRIEND B. IS LOOKING FOR A JOB - CAN YOU HELP?

Today I want to introduce to you my good friend and neighbour, her name is B.

Now, B. had a small shop dealing in selling and assistance for air conditioning systems.
Her business is closing: she'll be able to pay all the debts, fortunately, but there is no point in staying open, because there is no work as prices in this sector are more convenient in large department stores.

In September she is leaving the apartment she is renting and give away all her stuff - and she will have no job to support herself.
She has no family and therefore cannot be supported by anyone. Fortunately, she has found a nice and very helping lady that has offered her a free room and meals at her home, from september onwards.

She is desperately looking for a job, even one with a little salary, just to help with household expenses. She is 60 and she lives in Rome. If you can help somehow or you know of someone who can, please comment.

Introducing... the Brighten Foundation

I have a very special friend. His name is Giuseppe Martegani. He has been one of my best friend since I met him in 1997, in Auckland NZ. He has co-founded the Brighten Foundation, that helps kids around the world with programmes and camps designed to help develop self awareness and bring quality to their lives. Their programs include games, group activities, music, sports...

To learn more about the Brighten Foundation please visit www.brightenfoundation.org

What the Brighten Foundation does...

The Brighten Foundation offers programmes to assist and help develop young people for the good of themselves and the community around them. We do this through activities that promote self-awareness in the children and bring out the qualities that they inherently already have within them. We give them the spring board to be the best in themselves.

Regardless of where they were born and the conditions they were born into, we give the children the tools, confidence and support to become happy, healthy and contributing members of society.

Our programmes have been life-changing for some participants; both the children and the volunteers alike. To learn more about about previous camps, use the menu at the top, (below ‘What we do‘).

Every camp is unique but each one has the same aim: to brighten the lives of each individual who takes part in them.

"A SMALL STEP FOR..." :-))

Hello everyone. This blog is intended to be an open window to anyone willing to help in some way. I will be posting information that allows to help - or to be helped.
There are many ways to help our lives, and support may take many different shapes.

I work in the music education sector, so I deal with kids and young adults willing to learn music. These are lucky people, mainly, but, still, a difference can be made in their lives, with the deliver of values associated with music.
I also work as webmaster, and this has taught me something about the web and how to be visible through the net.  

It's hard to even have some time to help out others, during our busy days.
But it can even be a small commitment, like this post for example, and the others that will follow. It's just that I don't want to be blinded by my ego and forget that there is a world outside.

So, lets start: if you have and interesting fundraising event coming up, for example, post it in a comment and I'll spread the word.

bye for now