Live the Change : Bonus Assignment #1

The categories I chose to describe was the "Help Lesotho" category and the "Ryan's Well" category. First off, ways to help Lesotho are to donate money to charities that help countries like Lesotho. As you know, thousands of children are left orphans each year because of the fact that their parents died from HIV/AIDS. But, if we were to give enough money to help fund and educate these children, I think that there would be a dramatic decrease of deaths caused by HIV and other deadly diseases. Also, the poverty in Lesotho is outstanding. Charities like the "Happy Factory" are on a mission to help give every child in that country a toy, whether they can afford or not, just out of generosity or to do the right thing. Another Charity a would like to mention is "Ryan's Well". This organization was founded by a boy named Ryan. At the age of six, he saw a commercial on television telling people about less fortunate people around the world. Since then, Ryan has been raising money to help to provide clean water for the people in Lesotho, by building wells all across the country. This is significant because in countries such as these, people cannot afford clean water, so what most of them do is that they walk all the way to a river or a water hole they made by themselves and take their water supply from that. This is highly dangerous because the people have no clue what is in the water. Millions of parasites live and breed in it, and not only that, but the water is just plain dirty. Up along the river, an animal could have urinated in it or person could have dumped their garbage into the river. Organizations like "Ryan's Well" help millions of people stay alive and stay healthy, for the most part. That is why we should help fund these projects; to help other people less fortunate than us have a better life.