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Thank you to all of you who are participating in Fast-A-Thon by fasting, friendraising or fundraising. $100 can help us feed 1 child for 100 days, until the rains come back. Perhaps we should rename this theory to the “six degrees of connection.' If we all ask 10 of our friends to donate $10 – the price of a meal – that’s $100. I believe that these friend-to-friend networks do not separate us but rather connect us.

Some people say that social networking demonstrates the theory of “six degrees of separation” - the idea that everyone is on average six steps away from any other person on Earth. last night, I received a chat message on Facebook from a woman in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia thanking me for all we were doing for her country. As I was just about to close my laptop at about 3 a.m. And it is this vicarious empathy that connects us all. But through the power of the Internet, we can all experience empathy vicariously. Some of my colleagues in the field can experience empathy directly. And so Save the Children’s Fast-A-Thon was born in that moment of inspiration. The hunger pain around the lunch hour is a very small glimpse of their pain. We can be sympathetic to the plight of those children but we cannot feel empathy unless we experience some of their pain. We could all fast to feel empathy and then tell our friends about it. I could voluntarily fast to feel empathy. And in that moment I realized that there is something I could do about it. Imagine a child having to endure this…imagine if Sofia was your child? It is unimaginable. I am a parent like many of you and even if you are not a parent, we were all children once. But these children in East Africa walk for miles under the desert sun to get to food or water.Įvery week, six year-old Sofia, carries her two-year old sister, Suada, on her back for miles to a Save the Children feeding center in Kenya. or in much of America to find food when we are hungry or water when we are thirsty: Walking a few yards inside an air-conditioned building. That’s how easy it is in Westport, CT or Washington D.C. Feeling thirsty, I walked back upstairs to the nearest coffee station but the coffee ran out, so I settled for water. I pulled a dollar out of my pocket and tried to buy a snack from the vending machine…but it only takes exact change and I did not have 90¢, so I skipped a snack. So, I walked downstairs to the lunchroom at about 2:45 pm in the afternoon. I do personally to help even more.’ So last month during the heat wave here in the U.S., I was voluntarily working through lunch and I started to feel a late afternoon hunger pain. Though I serve the mission of children professionally, I thought to myself ‘what can The situation caused by the droughts in East Africa is dire for children especially. I work for Save the Children in the Westport, CT office.

Ettore Rossetti, Director, Internet Communications & Marketing

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