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I was so impressed with Global Alliance for Africa's work when I saw it in action in 2007, that I am heading up Mount Kilimanjaro again for the cause.

I saw how one $400 water tap could change an entire community. It provided safe water for a co-op of families who had taken in AIDS orphans to drink, cook and bathe with. They could sell the water to their neighbors who otherwise had to wait for the rain or use other unsafe measures for hydration.

Global Alliance for Africa is about making a big difference in communities. Please make a donation on behalf of my upcoming Kilimanjaro. Here's how your donation can help:
$400 funds an urban water program
$375 buys a water pump for an agricultural initiative
$150 funds a youth's educational fees for one year
$130 buys a bookcase for a library
$100 funds vocational training for an adolescent for one year
$50 buys a reading table for a library
$35 buys a goat

Thank you for your support!

 
About Global Alliance for Africa

Global Alliance for Africa (GAA) is a 501c(3) organization headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with offices in Nairobi, Kenya; Arusha, Tanzania and Monrovia Liberia.

Our mission is to provide care and support for orphans and vulnerable children who have been affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa.

We do so by partnering with African NGOs, faith-based organizations, and local women's co-operatives to design and implement innovative small business development and micro-enterprise initiatives with the goal of enabling families and communities to provide sustainable care and support for these orphans on their own.

Our approach helps households and communities to build the capacities to provide children with shelter, education, health care, food security, psycho-social support and legal representation.

We also provide edcuational opportunities through vocational training and scholarship programs so that orphans between the ages of 17-23 can find jobs in the formal sector of the economy.




 

Save the World Diet

Get Healthy, Help the World
Donation Goal : $10000.00
So far I have raised : $3014.00

My personal message:

With pledges and check donations, I have raised $2,000. Every donation makes change -- please contribute to a better future for Africa's 18 million AIDS orphans.

That's right, I said 18 million. When I climbed Kilimanjaro in 2007, there were 13 million.

There is a whole generation of kids without leaders, teachers, and, of course, parents. That is where we come in...


Global Alliance for Africa (Tax Exempt ID E-9940-2068-02) , which is based in Chicago, partners with local African NGOs, religious institutions, and community-based organizations with the aim of helping households and communities to become self-reliant and to build the capacities to provide orphans and vulnerable children with shelter, education, health care, food security, psycho-social support, and legal services.

Here's how your donation can help:
$400 funds an urban water program
$375 buys a water pump for an agricultural initiative
$150 funds a youth's educational fees for one year
$130 buys a bookcase for a library
$100 funds vocational training for an adolescent for one year
$50 buys a reading table for a library
$35 buys a goat

Thank you for your support!

This is the final event in my Save the World Diet initiative. Here is a little more about my year of getting healthy and helping the world....

So far in 2009, Kara Richardson Whitely has run in Central Park at midnight for UNICEF, jumped in icy Lake Champlain, Vt. for Special Olympics, walked amid monkeys and alligators for the MS Society, walked/jogged where Washington slept for National Parks and walked the Flying Pig Marathon course to benefit the American Heart Association. She is taking on a physical event for charity each month of the year -- an initiative she calls the Save the World Diet.

Now it's time for the biggest challenge yet, a trek up Mount Kilimanjaro for Global Alliance for Africa's AIDS Orphans programs.

Kara's Save the World Diet movement -- of taking action steps toward better health and a better world -- was inspired by her 2007 trek up Mount Kilimanjaro. The journey to Africa's highest peak was not only a celebration of her 120-pound weight loss, it was a fund raiser for Global Alliance for Africa's AIDS orphans programs. She couldn't justify not getting out of bed to train when a child needed fresh water, an education, a chance.

After the birth of her daughter a year later, she was left with about 50 pounds of baby weight to lose all over again. She remembered how motivating it was to be working for a cause as well as a fitness goal. She signed up for an event each month of 2009, knowing that it would allow her to go from feeling helpless about her weight and the problems in the world to feeling empowered and strong.

So far this year, she's down several pounds, feeling great and has raised thousands of dollars for charities.

By the year's end her treks up mountains and down the scale will help AIDS orphans and those with Leukemia & Lymphoma.She will also dance for food at a Cancan for Hunger, and bicycle 220 miles from Hershey, Pa. (away from all of that chocolate) to New York City for Breast Cancer patients. The year will end with another Kilimanjaro trek for AIDS orphans.

**Please support Global Alliance for Africa's AIDS orphans programs on behalf of her trek, the Save the World Diet finale!!**

Thank you!

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Donations & Comments
Display Name Amount Comment
Maria Semple $50.00 You go girl!!
Linda LloydJones $50.00 Had a great time on the hike - and this is a great cause. I am so happy to be able to help a little.
E David Luria $100.00 You go, girl! Good for you, I am happy to help! David Luria
Kathleen Egan $10.00
Kyung Ha $100.00
Rita Karlsten $50.00
Greg Marano $50.00 Show that mountain who\'s boss!... again!
Alison Waldman $50.00 Good luck Kara!
Richard Hagen $25.00
Joseph Bakes $35.00
Colleen NewvineTebeau $50.00 You\'re a real inspiration, Kara!
megan mitchell $70.00 You are an inspiration, Kara
Carmen Scheidel $50.00 Happy hiking and thanks for letting me know about Global Alliance for Africa.
Alice Gibbons $150.00 Congratulations Kara. Maybe someday your daughter will join you! You are a great role model for her!
Mike Wren $1.00
Derek Richardson $25.00 Good Luck Kara!
JoeandNyla Catanzaro $50.00 Good Luck!
Mary Liebman $150.00 Congratulations on wrapping up a truly awesome year, Kara!
Joyce Reilly $100.00
Robin Whitely $500.00 For a wonderful cause and in support of an amazing, wonderful woman!
Paul Song $200.00
Tim Silvia $20.00 Amazing!!!
Heather Scherick $10.00 Best of Luck Kara =)What an awesome experience!
Sue Dutton $100.00 good luck!
david cassaro $200.00 Comcast Cares!
Yahui Olenik $100.00 I am sorry I am little late for taking care of the donation. Thank you, Kara for taking on this meaningful and worthy work! I am grateful for your contribution to mankind and am proud of your spirit and determination. Take good care of yourself and keep up the great work. With awe and respect, Yahui
Linda Sellie $35.00 Very inspirational!
reina tendler $108.00 Keep up and you\'ll be kept up I adore you
Trish Wong $25.00
Salena Shuhala $25.00 Good Luck!!!
Rob Boris $25.00
Lynne Pate $150.00
Terri Tubbs $50.00 Good Luck!!!
Jessica McCormack $100.00 Thinking of you heading up that mountain! Sorry it took so long to make my pledge!
Ketul Patel $50.00 Good job Kara!
Laurent Pommier $100.00 Kara, we are proud of you!
Carolyn White $50.00 You\'re terrific and such an inspiration! Peter & Carolyn
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