Your contributions help us sponsor needy kids
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By
Brian Livingston
One thing that editor-at-large Fred Langa and I agree on is that it's important to help disadvantaged people around the world. Ever since the LangaList newsletter and Windows Secrets merged in November 2006, we've continued to sponsor children in developing countries with a portion of your contributions — we just haven't taken the time to write about it. |
Meet one of the children you're supporting
Fred maintains a page of links to pictures and descriptions of more than a dozen kids whom we're sending regular support to.
In addition, we've decided that Windows Secrets will send a full year of financial support to a different, new beneficiary each month.
At left is Souleymane, who we began sponsoring this month. He is seven years old and lives in Kapala, Sikasso Cercle, Mali. A landlocked country in western Africa, Mali ranks 174th out of 177 nations on the U.N.'s list of underdeveloped states.Your support is helping to fund a school health and nutrition program in Souleymane's community, managed by Save the Children, a respected nongovernmental organization. According to the group, 73% of Mali's 11.7 million people live on U.S. $1 or less per day, so contributions go far. In future months, we will select children benefiting from the programs of other respected relief agencies, including Oxfam International and Unicef.
We can't save the world, but we can do something. Supporting education and nutrition programs is our focus, but Windows Secrets has also donated to the One Laptop Per Child effort. This contribution will result in one kid-size PC going to a student in a developing country and another being donated by us to a school in the U.S.
We very much appreciate your support of our research into the secrets of Windows. To get our paid content for a full 12 months, use the following link:
From all of us at Windows Secrets, thanks for your tips and all of your encouragement.
Brian Livingston is editorial director of WindowsSecrets.com and the co-author of Windows Vista Secrets and 10 other books.
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