How shall we encourage people to donate to civilian war victim assistance efforts?

Question

Hello- I thought I would throw this out to the community here and see what people thought. My wife, some friends of mine, and I run a non-profit that assists landmine and bomb accident s survivors in Vietnam, Cambodia and on the Thai-Burma Border.

Our organization is called Clear Path International.
Check out our website at www.cpi.org.

We just received a matching grant for our work in Vietnam from the US Dept of State... so they will match donations to us.

My question: What do YOU think would be a great way for us to raise awareness of our efforts? What can you think of that we have not yet?

Thanks!

James

Answer 1

I'll be brutally honest with you and say what I was thinking after watching a Pod on Current TV talking about the same problem your having. Face it those poor kids and adults with there dismember limbs and poor lives our alot more happier then most of us Americans pretend to be. They deal with their problems better and they relate some much better with each other then most of us shallow Americans could ever hope. The truth is their isn't much more your going to do to increase awareness that some other liberal bleeding heart foundation hasn't already tried and Americans saturated in them. Its an up hill battle with your best options always being relating as much as possible on an individual bases with as many people as you can. Spread your word. Just remember your talking to people with their own problems and unless you can fix theirs first your not going to get very far asking them to help fix someone else's.