In 2010, we traveled to Jacmel, Haiti to help the community rebuild after the earthquake that struck the island last January. While there, we rebuilt a dental clinic and refurbished an orphanage, both of which had sustained earthquake damage. We also took 1600 tools with us to supply a carpentry school that we helped to [...]
The earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, 2011 – and the tsunami that followed – left the island nation reeling from the most devastating natural disaster that they have ever seen.
Random Acts will be donating 15% of the funds raised by our Hope to Haiti project to an organization working in Japan to provide [...]
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It’s the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, and having been there twice in the last year I can tell you that it’s amazing to see first hand how the community has come together to rebuild and how much progress has already been made. But there is still a great deal of work to be done. June, 2011 When Random Acts made our first trip to Jacmel, Haiti in June of 2011 the volunteers on the trip forged deep connections with both the people and the place. There’s just...
My first thought, upon deciding to write a blog post on the East African Food Crisis, was to dig around for facts and figures which I could then present and use to appeal to potential donors. But everyone has seen the numbers already – 12 million famine-stricken people fighting for their lives, 640,000 of which are small children in Somalia – and seeing them one more time will hardly flip a switch in anyone’s head, right? Then I randomly stumbled upon an article on Psychology...
OUR RANDOM BEGINNINGS On December 3, 2009, Misha Collins, who currently portrays the angel Castiel on Supernatural, used Twitter to ask his followers (affectionately termed “minions”) to come up with ideas for a “minionstimulus” project. The goal was to obtain U.S. government stimulus money (funding to aid endeavors to stop an economic recession) for non-profit “minion” initiatives. The pursuit of government funding was soon abandoned in favor of morphing into a privately organized...