Two weeks ago, World Vision Australia asked me to help promote their current Child Sponsorship campaign by talking about this worthy cause in my blog.

  We chatted about the tough economic times that we are all in right now and how it is becoming tougher than ever for World Vision to find sponsors for children who really are in desperate need.

These kids are struggling to survive in the face of skyrocketing global food prices and chronic food shortages.  That's why I reckon there's no better use of this space than to ask you all to think about sponsoring a child right now.

Just consider, for less than the cost of your daily caffeine fix, you can not only change the life of a child, but of their entire community.

This is particularly directed at Australian residents so please follow this link and find out more about sponsoring a child:

Please follow this link to learn more about child sponsorship.

Hi Folks

I am very grateful that I seldom have to write reminders such as this but I believe it is time everyone using the site regularly gets a little refresher on our Code of Honor first principle :

Above all else, respect others. If you see disrespectful behavior, report it, rather than further inflaming the situation. You can attack the idea/topic, but you can not attack the person.

Please let this be at the forefront of your mind whenever you are posting to the site.

In particular you should NEVER copy anything written by another member from a private forum or sent via a private minti-mail into a public part of the site.  There is a reason people keep posts or mails private and part of respecting other members is respecting this desire for privacy of posts.

Report items that breach this guideline and I would ask that senior members delete these items if they breach this guiding principle.

thanks everyone

Matt