Pray-Justin Bieber

This is a song that I heard before I even like Justin Bieber and the lyrics really moved me. Read them and if you want, go look at the song too.

Ooh ooh ooooh
Ooh ooh ooooh
Ooh ooh ooooh
And I pray

I just can't sleep tonight
Knowing that things ain't right
It's in the papers
It's on the t.v.
It's everywhere that I go
Children are cryin'
Soldiers are dyin'
Some people don't have a home

But I know there's sunshine beyond that rain
I know there's good times beyond that pain, hey
Can you tell me how I can make a change?

I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and pray
I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and pray

I lose my appetite
Knowing kids starve tonight
Am I a sinner, cause like like my dinner
Still there on my plate
Ooh, I got a vision to make a difference
And it's starting today
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/j/justin_bieber/pray.html ]
'Cause I know there's sunshine beyond that rain
I know there's good times beyond that pain, hey
Heaven, tell me how I can make a change?

I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and pray
I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and...

I pray for the brokenhearted
I pray for the life not started
I pray for all the ones not breathing
I pray for all the souls in need I pray
...
Can u give 'em one today?

I just can't sleep tonight...
Can someone tell me how to make a change?

I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and pray
I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and...

I PRAY
I PRAY
I PRAY...
I close my eyes and pray...

***Look at the song!!!***

Cya :P

~J

Organizations Stopping Poverty

IPA: Innovations for Poverty Action.
Innovations for Poverty Action is a nonprofit dedicated to discovering what works to help the world’s poor. Thy are led by researchers including some who hold positions at universities such as Harvard, Yale, MIT, and LSE. They have worked in places all over the world, like Latin America, Asia, Africa and USA.
Their mission: Fighting Poverty with Innovation, Evidence and Action.

Children's Defense Fund: A strong, effective, independent voice for all the children of America.
They are a non-profit child advocacy organization that has worked relentlessly for over 35 years to ensure a level playing field for all children. Their vision is to end child poverty. They invest in high quality education for every child, livable wages for families, income safety nets like job training and job creation, the Earned Income and Child Tax Credits, and work supports like child care and health coverage. They also work with partners to educate families about benefits for which they are eligible.

Relief International: Saving Lives, Sustaining Livelihoods.
Relief International is a humanitarian non-profit agency that provides emergency relief, rehabilitation, development assistance, and program services to vulnerable communities worldwide. Relief International is solely dedicated to reducing human suffering and is non-political and non-sectarian in its mission. Their mission is to: Serve the needs of the most vulnerable - particularly women and children, victims of natural disasters & civil conflicts, and the poor - with a specific focus on neglected groups and cases, provide holistic, multi-sectoral, sustainable, and pro-poor programs that bridge emergency relief and long-term development at the grassroots level, empower communities by building capacity and by maximizing local resources in both program design and implementation, promote self-reliance, peaceful coexistence, and reintegration of marginalized communities, protect lives from physical injury or death and/or psychological trauma where present, uphold the highest professional norms in program delivery, including accountability to beneficiaries and donors alike.

ONE International.
Backed by a movement of 2 million ONE members, ONE achieves change through advocacy. They hold world leaders to account for the commitments they've made to fight extreme poverty, and they campaign for better development policies, more effective aid and trade reform. They also support greater democracy, accountability and transparency to ensure policies to beat poverty are implemented effectively. ONE is not a grant-making organization and we do not solicit funding from the general public. As they have always said, at ONE, 'we're not asking for your money, we're asking for your voice.'

***Some of the things said in the text above have come directly from their websites. Some I have said in my own words, but not all of it. I encourage you to look at the links below to learn more about these great organizations.***

http://www.poverty-action.org/
http://www.childrensdefense.org/
http://www.ri.org/
http://www.one.org/international/

~J

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