100 Friends Project

So what does Island Girl Salvage have to do with saving the world and helping the poorest of the poor? Well, actually, a lot.

Island Girl Salvage has a special association with Marc Gold of the 100 Friends Project (http://www.100friendsproject.org/). Last June we sponsored a fund raiser for the project and it was highly successful and loads of fun. Another fund raiser is planned sometime in June or July, 2007. Stay tuned!

This small project started 18 years ago, in 1989. The idea is very simple. Every year many people contribute to the project and Marc takes the money to Third World Countries and looks for the neediest people he can find.

He then puts the money to work in the most compassionate, appropriate, culturally compatible, constructive and practical manner possible. You put the donation into his hands and he puts the funds directly into the hands of the needy individual or family, or a small trusted grassroots organization helping them. All donations are tax deductible.

His plans for 2007 are to build two schools, one in Afghanistan and one in Cambodia. He is also planning to help the Tuareg Nomads in Niger with schools, wells, food banks and health clinics. He was in Hanoi and was able to donate $9,000 to three groups helping children with medical operations and educational needs. He also traveled to Kashmir to help families trying to recover from the massive earthquake of October, 2005.

His ongoing work with children rescued from a garbage dump is truly inspiring. Also he went back to Indonesia for a third time last November, 2006 to help orphans from the tsunami and earthquake zones. A short documentary has been shot about Marc’s work in Indonesia.

To find out how you too can help, click on the link to 100 Friends Project!

Thanks,
Tab