I have a story.
You have a story.
The millions of children going to bed starving tonight have a story.
It’s time for all of us to do our part in weaving these stories together.
The team of bloggers are leaving today for India. We’ll arrive about 8:30 pm Delhi time on Saturday, spend the night there, then fly to Calcutta (Kolkata). In Calcutta, we’ll spend almost a week visiting the most poverty stricken areas, meeting the people (why is it so easy to forget that they’re people, and not a statistic?) there.
We’ll hear their stories.
And then, we’ll share those stories with you.
FOLLOW ALONG
***You can follow the entire trip’s RSS feed (of every blogger) here.
***You can follow me on Twitter here (I should be able to Tweet AND do TwitPic updates).
But please don’t just follow along.
We NEED your help in spreading the message about this trip.
Please use your blog, email addresses, Facebook (Here’s our Prayer Group!), and Twitter (hashtag #compassionindia) responsibly.
And by responsibly, I mean please use your voice.
Below you will find some widget options.? It’s super simple – just copy and paste the code. The yellow one (which, if you’re a geek, you can enlarge to 380px wide by changing it in the code) will link back directly to my own view of Calcutta and the stories I’ll be telling. The next one will link back to the CompassionBloggers.com India Trip page.? The third graphic will link directly to children in India who need sponsors.
Use one, use them all. Please just help us spread the message of the hope and love in Calcutta.
LINK TO STORIES ON FLOWERDUST:
Code to copy:
LINK DIRECTLY TO COMPASSION BLOGGER INDIA PAGE:
LINK TO SPONSOR A CHILD:
YOU ARE JUST AS MUCH A PART OF THIS TRIP AS THE PEOPLE GOING…let’s use the power of blogging to change the world!
Below you’ll find a little message from Pete and myself…We’ll see you guys back on as soon as we can!
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8 responses to “Finding HOPE in Calcutta – Leaving for INDIA TODAY!!!”
nerds.
i love you.
and i love the yellow graphic.
praying for the trip. can’t wait to follow along with you.
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that was a fantastic video. praying for you guys.
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Hi Anne,
Welcome to India! My husband & I worked there and loved it. We will track your journey and are blogging about it too!
Just wanted to leave you all (blogger team) with a word of encouragment: that what you are doing is important. Don’t let the enemy bombard you with feeling it is not.
With love,
Marysol
Dear Anne,
I’ll be following you and sending you prayers daily. We sponsor a little girl in India through Compassion. I believe that the work you do is very important. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Sincerely,
Sara
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I have a sponsered child in Madras at the Bentinck Highe School. Will you be near there? We have been her sponser since 1994. I’ll be following your trip. God bless
Love your graphic.
Praying for y’all. . . .
Your Vimeo video doesn’t work….for some reason it comes up blank on my screen…I wanna see Anne getting a shot…