I know I have many Filipino visitors to this blog– perhaps you already know about the Payatas children of the Philippines. These children, living in a landfill in the Smokey Mountains, pick through garbage in search of basic necessities and junk that they can sell to buy food. The Christmas For Payatas fund has been organized to make people aware of the poverty and disgusting conditions these children live in, and raise donations to help them. 
Totedaddy.com is working with the Lighthouse Center For Children Foundation to help these kids and their families. There are already numerous, prominent supporters for the fund, but every person and every penny counts! The funds raised will help continue the programs already in place, and help build better housing and provide basic needs for the Payatas families.
You can go to the website,Christmas For Payatas, to see a short video about the organization and the Payatas children. Please check it out and consider giving to this worthy cause! <
I’m a married mom with 4 kids. We live in Upstate New York in an old 1855 house with our five pets (yes, five, *sigh*). Life is never dull, and exciting things just seem to always happen to me... why me... when I'm not running around the house fixing things, I do freelance writing and blogging. My work and opinions have appeared in Salon.com, USAToday, eHow.com, iMedia.com, the Associated Press and I've even been interviewed by TIME and The Wall Street Journal about blogging. Can you believe it?! Here is where I express my zany, creative, motherly side. 
March 30, 2009 at 5:15 am
Thank you for supporting a cause that benefits Filipino children.
May 16, 2009 at 11:55 pm
If you really want to help the kids, help an organization who is doing it. Last week we sent 75 kids and counselors to Laguna Word of Life Camp. This week we will have VBS for about 100 children. We have a free medical clinic and have done many verifiable services for the poor.
http://www.savepayatas.com