RSS/Google Alerts - The Power of Information

Hello everyone again. I've recently completed session 4 (GNML), which is RSS and Google Alerts. These are so useful things and I hadn't known about them. Now I'm able to see every new things in my favorite web sites and to set Google Alert to find needed information. As I posted before I'm trying to help orphanage in my city. Therefore I set Alert to find things connected to orphanages and here is article about girls who were collecting shoes for orphans in Nairobi:

Shoe girls collect shoes for orphans in Nairobi

...And so, together with classmates Kelly Eisenschenk, Mary Halonen, Maddie Kinn and Frankie Halter, Miller organized a shoe drive.

“We’re collecting new and gently-used shoes – grade school sizes for boys and girls age zero to 18,” said Eisenschenk.

The girls set up collection spots in the high school and at Peterson Shoes in downtown Anoka. They made announcements to classmates on the school’s TV 7 school news broadcast. They hung a shoe drive poster in the cafeteria. They promoted the shoe collection at church, with family and friends and at their parents’ work place.

“We really did everything we could to get word out that we were collecting shoes for the kids,” said Kinn.
At Anoka Middle School for the Arts Fred Moore campus, a teen night event also set the stage for shoe collection, she said.

“Jimmy (Nyembwe) said he’d help us out and he even said he would give us 10 pairs of shoes himself,” Miller said.

Nyembwe is the middle school student learning advocate and shares the students’ passion to help the children of Nairobi, she said.

The collection ends Saturday (Nov. 16) with a last-chance-to-give event staged at Goodrich Field in Anoka from noon to 2 p.m. that day.

“We’ll collect last-minute donations, we’ll have stationary and cards available for people to write a note to the children, we’ll be serving African food, hot chocolate, hot tea, maybe some chai, and invite people to give a donation to help with shipping costs,” Miller said...

http://abcnewspapers.com/2013/11/13/shoe-girls-collect-shoes-orphans-nairobi/ 

Previously, my goal in session #2 was to teach orphans and lead them in order to prevent their bad behavior. Now I can see new things which are very useful to orphans, because orphans are needed in different financial supports in my country too. It would be great idea if I organized any collection events to help orphans. I hope to know more useful things to help the orphan in my city through the Google Alert.