{"id":55,"date":"2008-11-04T17:23:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T17:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/textmessages\/2008\/11\/support-kids-see-africa-if-you.html"},"modified":"2008-11-04T17:23:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T17:23:26","slug":"support-kids-see-africa-if-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/textmessages\/2008\/11\/support-kids-see-africa-if-you.html","title":{"rendered":"Support Kids, see Africa. If you can take it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chc.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/197\/import\/chc.jpg\" width=\"215\" height=\"161\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<div>This month, Beliefnet has teamed up with <a href=\"http:\/\/tomdavis.typepad.com\/\">Tom Davis<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/danieljclark.typepad.com\/\">Daniel Clark<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopechest.org\/\">Children&#8217;s HopeChest<\/a> to raise support for orphans in Africa. You&#8217;ll see my charity badge on the right, and you can donate directly to CHC from that badge&#8211;as little as $10 at a time. (If you&#8217;re a blogger, please consider adding the badge to your blog for this month. Click the &#8220;Share&#8221; tab on the badge to see how.)\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I don&#8217;t need to tell you about the urgency of this cause. But I do need to tell you that this month, you can win a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/communitynews\/2008\/10\/win-a-trip-to-africa-with-chil.html\">free trip to Africa with Tom Davis<\/a>. You&#8217;d go sometime in 2009 and tour orphanages with him in Uganda, Ethiopia, or Swaziland. It&#8217;d blow your mind, rock your world, and if you&#8217;re lucky, change you for good. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Community\/2008\/10\/HopeChest.aspx\">Enter if you dare<\/a>.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You can enter the contest whether you donate or not, and donating does not help your chances of winning.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But you know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkforgood.org\/pca\/Badge.aspx?badgeId=112858\">the right thing to do<\/a>. If you blog about this, tell your friends, or promote it in any way, please let me know: pdodd@beliefnetstaff.org<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, Beliefnet has teamed up with Tom Davis and Daniel Clark at Children&#8217;s HopeChest to raise support for orphans in Africa. You&#8217;ll see my charity badge on the right, and you can donate directly to CHC from that badge&#8211;as little as $10 at a time. (If you&#8217;re a blogger, please consider adding the badge&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beliefnet"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Support Kids, see Africa. 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