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		<title>What is Blog Action Day</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is Blog Action Day 2008 &#8211; Poverty? It&#8217;s a worthy endeavor to encourage bloggers to &#8221;DO Something About Poverty Right Now&#8221;, and then blog about it. The Action Blog at the official Blog Action Day site suggests “88 Ways to Take Action Against Poverty Right Now”.

When I last checked, there were over 12,000 sites blogging about Blog Action Day 2008. This is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is <strong>Blog Action Day 2008 &#8211; Poverty</strong>? It&#8217;s a worthy endeavor to encourage bloggers to &#8221;DO Something About Poverty Right Now&#8221;, and then blog about it. The <a href="http://site.blogactionday.org/">Action Blog</a> at the official <a href="http://blogactionday.org/"><span>Blog Action Day</span></a> site suggests “88 Ways to Take Action Against Poverty Right Now”.</p>
<p><a href="http://blogactionday.org"><img src="http://blogactionday.org/img/4df7e288240cff051a559a76ecf03002e9cb623b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>When I last checked, there were over 12,000 sites blogging about <em>Blog Action Day 2008</em>. This is awesome! What an excellent reminder of what is important on this planet we all live in. This is a worthy cause I support.</p>
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<h3>My personal feelings</h3>
<p>My childhood illustrates how caring individuals can really make a difference in a child&#8217;s life, even in the small things they do. My father was a good man. He got sick and died when I was 9 years old, leaving several children for my mom to raise. So I grew up in a poor family, although I didn’t know it at the time. We had what we needed. I really appreciate all the things our neighbors and church friends did to bless our lives while I was growing up.</p>
<p>It is important for me now to help less fortunate children, to be their friend, to teach, encourage and inspire them. My wife, Tanda, and I are always looking for ways to share with others. She is such a wonderful example of a loving, compassionate, Christian woman. We are currently working to make our businesses successful so that we can generate enough surplus to contribute on a larger scale to help alleviate poverty. We also look forward to the time when we can serve a full-time mission. We are hoping to go to a country where we can really make a difference.</p>
<p>Tanda and I want to encourage you to find ways to share what your have with those who are in such desperate need. </p>
<p>I wrote a short post about Blog Action Day on our <a href="http://www.grandparentstlc.com/blog/">GrandparentsTLC.com blog</a>. Several of my friends have also written excellent articles about it, which I recommend to you. Please show your support by commenting and submitting their webpages to your favorite social bookmark sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, and Mixx.</p>
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<li><a href="http://agoodhusband.net/2008/10/blog-action-day/">Blog Action Day</a> <em>by Cory Huff at AGoodHusband.com</em></li>
<li><a href="http://hubpages.com/hub/Blog-Action-Day-Poverty-All-These-Things-Need-Not-Be">Blog Action Day-Poverty-All of These Things-Need Not Be</a> <em>by Write On! at HubPages</em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="http://hubpages.com/hub/Blog-Action-Day-Providing-the-Lords-Way--Christian-Service">Blog Action Day-Providing the Lord&#8217;s Way-Christian Service</a> </span>by In The Doghouse at HubPages<br />
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<li><a href="http://willisays.com/2008/10/14/its-the-water-bad08-blog-action-day/">It’s The Water: BAD08 (Blog Action Day)</a> <em>by Willis Whitlock at WilliSays.com</em></li>
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<p>Please let me know if you have an article about <em>Blog Action Day</em> so I can add it to my list.</p>
<p><em>Thanks, Shayne</em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Here&#8217;s a fun site you oughta try. Next to being a grandma, it&#8217;s one of my wife&#8217;s favorite pastimes.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.freerice.com/"><img src="http://www.freerice.com/banners/129_90_button.jpg" border="0" alt="Help end world hunger" width="120" height="90" /></a></p>
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