Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Guest At Your Table
UUSC, 130 Prospect St, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Public Affairs (617) 868-6600
fax (617) 868-7102.
The Committee works to improve the lives of children living in poverty in the US and for women's empowerment, reproductive rights, human rights, and economic development in Africa, Asia, Central America and the Caribbean. The annual Guest at Your Table is a familiar yearly fundraiser.

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) UNICEF is an international organization that cares for children around the world. It brings medicine. It teaches people to read. It builds hospitals, schools and daycare centers. It trains doctors and nurses. It provides health, nutrition, education and clean water and sanitation. The yearly campaign for UNICEF is their major fundraising effort. Fundraising kits can be ordered from UNICEF, 333 East 38th St., New York, NY 10016. Telephone: (800)367-5437, www.unicef.org.

Love Letters Program
An organization that sends mail and gifts to children who are terminally ill. You may contact Love Letters, Inc., P.O. Box 41685, Chicago, IL 60641. (Submitted by Rev. Colleen McDonald of Rockford, IL.) See further information detailed in this packet.

Welcome To My World
A simulation workbook designed to raise awareness of the needs and potential of persons with handicapping conditions. It was created by the Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon. It may be used at many levels and with a variety of organizations. It focuses on living with a variety of disabilities.

Lee Sanchez, DRE, First Church of Seattle, used it over several Sundays followed by a brunch at which we "disabled" our guests through simulations. Following the meal we had a discussion about how our congregations are/are not accessible to people of differing abilities. The following Sunday in an intergenerational service several of our congregation's members shared their own (very moving/funny/informational) stories. We had skits, songs, stories, and lots of music-singing and signing.

Welcome to My World costs $25, may be ordered from: Special Pastoral Services Archdiocese of Portland, Archdiocesan Pastoral Center, 2838 East Burnside St., Portland, Oregon, 97214

"Unsheltered Lives: An Interdisciplinary Resource and Activity Guide for Teaching about Homelessness in Grades K-12" (Lisa Rubin, DRE of Burlington, VT shared this resource.) The curriculum was a collaborative effort of Burlington Vermont's Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS), VISTA, and the Vermont Department of Education. It was printed in 1991. It covers "Awareness": What does homelessness mean? Causes, Self-concept, Animal Homes, Human Homes, Types of Homes, Hypothermia and Homelessness, etc. It also covers "Taking Action." Ordering information: Gail Taylor, Department of Education, Compensatory Education Unit, 120 State St., Montpelier, VT 05620-2501. Telephone: (802)828-3130.

Pacific Whale Foundation
Pacific Whale Foundation is a nonprofit center for marine research, conservation, and education. Since 1980 it has carried out in-depth studies of humpback whales, developed marine education programs for the public, and assisted in developing conservation plans and policies for endangered marine life. Through its program you can "adopt" a whale in Hawaii or Australia. For $35 you get a personalized adoption certificate, photos and history of your whale, full-color whale-watching guide, bumper sticker, and newsletter Soundings which keeps you up to date on whale news around the world and the whales in the Adopt-a-Whale program. The $75 package contains all the above plus a book on Hawaii's humpback whales, a CD or cassette of the songs of humpback whales, and a tote bag with a breaching whale design on one side. Pacific Whale Foundation, Kealia Beach Plaza, Suite 21, 101 North Kihei Road, Kihei, Maui, Hawaii, 96753-9980. Telephone: (800)942-5311. Email: adoption@pacifwhale.org.

The Nature Conservancy Adopt an Acre program
Adopt an Acre of rainforest land for $35. The money is used to purchase land. The Nature Conservancy will send you information about the specific region in which they are located along with resident plants and animals, as well as the conservation work being undertaken. Address: The Nature Conservancy, 1815 N. Lynn Street, Arlington, VA. 22209. Telephone: (800)842-3678.

The Heifer Project
An ecumenical organization committed to ending hunger through people partnerships in rural development. $10 can buy a flock of chickens or vaccine to immunize 1,000 water buffalo. $30 will buy a colony of bees or veterinary tools and medicine; $60 a trio of rabbits; $120 for a goat, sheep or pig. $500 can provide a heifer, $ 1,000 a bull or ten breed goats. Heifer Project International, P.O. Box 808, Little Rock, Arkansas, 72203. Telephone (800)422-0474.

Habitat for Humanity International
Habitat for Humanity is an organization that rehabilitates or constructs housing for low-income families. Contact them for information about programs in your area. Children and youth are limited to what they can do on these projects but supervised teen groups can work. Younger children can help adult work parties with gardening. 121 Habitat Street, Americus, Georgia 31709. Telephone: (912) 924-6935, or (800)-HABITAT. Wesite: www.habitat.org.

Empty Bowls
Empty Bowls is an international project to fight hunger. It originated in Michigan in 1991, when a high school ceramics teacher had students make bowls for a faculty luncheon. In exchange for a donation, guests received a simple meal and the bowl from which they ate. After the meal, the bowl served as a permanent reminder that there are always those whose bowls remain empty. Participants create ceramic bowls, then serve a simple meal of soup and bread. Guests choose a bowl to use that day and to keep as a reminder that there are always empty bowls in the world. In exchange for the meal and the bowl, the guest gives a suggested minimum donation of ten dollars. The meal's sponsors and/or guests choose a hunger fighting organization to receive the money collected. The ImagineIRENDER Group,parent organization of Empty Bowls, asks, however, that you fill out and return a form for their archives. It receives donations to continue to administer this project and several others that it created to fight hunger. It has a fine packet of resources, information, organizing ideas, and names and addresses of hunger related organizations. The ImagineIRENDER Group, 2691 Noble Road, Oxford, MI, 48370. Phone: (248)628-4842. Fax (248)628-4533. Email: hrtbum@aol.com