Monday, December 1, 2008

Last week i blogged part 1 of some posts about the Mocha Club. This is the follow-up to that post. Today Mocha Club is launching their website and have asked a handful of bloggers to help generate some traffic, you can see the blogroll at http://www.mochaclub.org/ .

Here is some text from the directors of Mocha Club:

When I think of Africa, the following images immediately come to mind: Starvation. AIDS. Child soldiers. Genocide. Sex slaves. Orphans. From there, my thoughts naturally turn to how I can help, how I can make a difference. “I am needed here,” I think. “They have so little, and I have so much.” It’s true, there are great tragedies playing out in Africa everyday. There is often a level of suffering here that is unimaginable until you have seen it, and even then it is difficult to believe. But what is even harder is reconciling the challenges that many Africans face with the joy I see in the people. It’s a joy that comes from somewhere I cannot fathom, not within the framework that has been my life to this day. [read more]



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