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Let’s talk about Yemen, where half of the population is expected to die by the next year if they don’t get immediate help, and there has been a civil war going on since 2014.

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Okay so what’s the plan what do we do

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IRUSA donors have been providing humanitarian aid inside Yemen, giving food, water, medical aid and more to those in need.

I looked up which organisations are helping Yemen and IRUSA came up a significant number of times as being trustworthy, transparent and it seems to be a good choice. Also, Save The Children:

I just donated to Save the Children to transform children's lives and the future we share. Join me.

I’ve also learned another scary fact - every two hours in Yemen a mother and six newborns die due to complications in pregnancy and childbirth.

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“I am agitated and restless and tired all at once.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. January 1925 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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I just love this, I swear I’ll go viral

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when the times get rough and I lose sight of the goal i just. reread “the orange” by wendy cope again & remember. that’s where I’m going folks. sooner or later, whatever it takes.

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At lunchtime I bought a huge orange— The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half.

And that orange, it made me so happy, As ordinary things often do Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park. This is peace and contentment. It’s new.

The rest of the day was quite easy. I did all the jobs on my list And enjoyed them and had some time over. I love you. I’m glad I exist.

– “The Orange,” Wendy Cope

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“I think it’s part of the nature of man to start with romance and build to a reality. There’s hardly a scientist or an astronaut I’ve met who wasn’t beholden to some romantic before him who led him to doing something in life. I think it’s so important to be excited about life. In order to get the facts we have to be excited to go out and get them, and there’s only one way to do that — through romance. We need this thing which makes us sit bolt upright when we are nine or ten and say, ‘I want to go out and devour the world, I want to do these things.’”

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Priceless: Ray Bradbury in conversation with Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke on the cosmos and the human mind.

Don’t you love it when you come across a quote that you’ve never heard, but just instantly captures the vey ethos of your life? Because that’s pretty much happening for me, right here. -J

(via explore-blog)

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