25 Jul 08 - Go green by choosing paperless bill for the phone bill (At&t) - participating in helping the environment (a need to save more trees).

oO likes to play with the Kangaroo doll

24 Jul 08 - Contributed two 1968 pennies to 1968pennies.com, the world's largest collection of 1968 pennies. By doing so, I get to have oO's full name and URL for this blog site posted on http://1968pennies.com. This is a giving of something that's not worth much for us but has some meaning for someone else (i.e. the collector of the coins values them more than we do), and so it's a small good deed, a small random act of kindness.

23 Jul 08 - forwarded a message to friends and family for Peace Day 2008 to support the Peace One Day's campaign; "With the help of the global community, Peace One Day has made great strides towards raising awareness of Peace Day and inspiring people all over the world since its launch in 1999."
www.peaceoneday.org/commitment.aspx

Also forwarded a message of Al Gore's challenge to "generate 100% of our electricity from sources that do not lead to global warming -- and to do it within 10 years. Meeting this ambitious goal would create millions of new jobs, lead to permanently lower energy costs for families and help America lead the fight against global warming."
www.wecansolveit.org/page/m/6f8f4b49403d8f19/7wc5mw/VEsA/

22 Jul 08 - supported ONE.org by completing a survey to help ONE responds to issues of global poverty, epidemics and climate change. Also share an idea to promote the campaign.

15 Jul 08 - LeoO and sister Kaonoom joined with family to celebrate great grandpa PoYa Mee's birthday and gave him a gift. Respecting our elders is a good deed.

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others?"

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

16 Jul 08 - bought a nice CARE.org "I Am Powerful" t-shirt ($21) as a gift to maman Pung for her love and strength, and in support to good cause by CARE, a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty.

"Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives." - www.care.org

5 Jul 08 - gave advice and support to a friend about dealing with troubles in life, which has been helpful according to the friend.

4 Jul 08 - donated $10 to a Lao Buddhist temple (Temple 25) in Elgin. Note: the 4th of July is the US Independence Day.

10 categories of helping others (from Liao Fan's 4 lessons)

1. Supporting the practice of kindness.
2. Harboring love and respect.
3. Helping others succeed.
4. Persuading others to practice kindness.
5. Helping those in desperate need.
6. Developing public projects for the great benefit of people.
7. Giving through donations.
8. Protecting the proper teachings.
9. Respecting our elders.
10. Loving and cherishing all living things.

1 Jul 08 - donated $15 to People Improvement Organization (PIO) based in Cambodia to help children through a variety of programs that include, non-formal education and vocational training. Through the programs PIO provides some of the most vulnerable women and children in Cambodia with hope for the future.

Inspiring Story:
CNN Heroes Article: Saving children from Cambodia’s trash heap

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (CNN) — Walking down a street in Cambodia’s capital city, Phymean Noun finished her lunch and tossed her chicken bones into the trash. Seconds later, she watched in horror as several children fought to reclaim her discarded food.

Noun stopped to talk with them. After hearing their stories of hardship, she knew she couldn’t ignore their plight.

“I must do something to help these children get an education,” she recalls thinking. “Even though they don’t have money and live on the sidewalk, they deserve to go to school.”

Six years after that incident, Noun is helping many of Phnom Penh’s poorest children do just that.

Within weeks, she quit her job and started an organization to give underprivileged children an education. Noun spent $30,000 of her own money to get her first school off the ground. In 2004, her organization — the People Improvement Organization (PIO) — opened a school at Phnom Penh’s largest municipal trash dump, where children are a large source of labor. Today, Noun provides 240 kids from the trash dump a free education, food, health services and an opportunity to be a child in a safe environment.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/29/heroes.noun/#cnnSTCVideo

http://peopleimprovement.org/