Asian tragedy

Dear friends, the time to start helping has arrived!

Here in Brazil, we've started a campaign to collect used or new clothes, blankets, sleeping-bags, hygiene and first-aid kits and (especially) non-perish food (rice, beans, wheat flour, water) and medications like antibiotics in order to send to Asia as soon as possible. We still can fight to avoid the upcoming epidemic crisis.

Please, do the same, ask your friends and community to help you. Donations (also money) can be send to the Red Cross or directly to the Embassies and Consulates of Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and India (check in your area).

The International Committee of the Red Cross web site is: http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/685E5K?OpenDocument

We can make the difference. US$ 5 makes all the difference!

Thank you very much. And have you all a very happy 2005!

Warmest regards,

Alessandra
WHITE LILY for Women - Brazil

a drop in the ocean...

LÍRIO-BRANCO... WEIßE LILIE ... AZUCENA BLANCA... GIGLIO BIANCO... LE LIS BLANC... WHITE LILY is an international movement created in Brazil, on December 2004, to fight for women rights all over the World. It’s not a foundation or a non-governmental-non-profit organization, it’s just a way to connect women (and men) interested in helping and be helped.

Maybe you think it's not your problem, it's beyond of your control or even there's nothing you could do for anybody else. But you can do. A lot. You just need to believe in yourself and change the way you look at the others: one of them could be your daughter, mother, sister, your beloved. There's always someone's beloved needing help somewhere, a woman just like you, a little girl like yours. Speak for those who can't do it for themselves. Cry out as a "musketeer": one for all and all for one!

Please, have in mind that WHITE LILY doesn't ask for money, only for your essential assistance, in that exact way you believe being able to help. Let's exchange information, ideas, legal and medical advice, denounces, petitions, general guidance, all kind of useful knowledge to support, comfort and even save women from abandoned corners of the planet. Let's combat cruelty in its multiform faces as such as sexual exploitation, slave work and the huge deficiency of awareness about potentially fatal diseases (from cancer to AIDS). Information is power, let's forward this power. Let’s allow every woman to be born healthy, grow up being protected, live free and grow old with dignity. Let’s give them a choice; let’s give them a chance.

First of all, we need to increase our chain: please join us and invite your friends and relatives to sign in WHITE LILY for Women Group at Internet (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/white-lily-for-women). Then, write us (in English, Spanish, Italian, French, German or Portuguese) about issues you would like discuss, petitions needing more signatures, who is needing help and tell us (even unidentified) how you could give any kind of assistance.

Thanks, dank, gracias, merci, grazie, obrigada!

WHITE LILY for Women
E-mail: whitelily@uol.com.br

"...I know that my work is a drop in the ocean, but without it, the ocean would not be so immense" (Madre Theresa from Calcutta)