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“There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.”
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The contents of an open Early Childhood Development (ECD) Kit.
The ECD Kit targets children under six years old who represent the highest percentage of those affected by today’s emergencies, including natural disasters, earthquakes, cyclones, war and conflict. The kits are stored and assembled at UNICEF Supply Division Headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. Each box includes supplies for approximately 50 children. Costing US $230, it provides materials for a range of activities to encourage the development and social interaction of children including playing, drawing, and storytelling in the aftermath of disasters and civil conflicts around the world. Art materials include: wax crayons, safety scissors, coloured paper, glue, coloured pencils and erasers, adhesive tape and modelling clay. Play items include a jigsaw puzzle, building blocks, board puzzles, and a shape-sorter, Dominos, coloured wooden beads, a memory game, hand puppets, finger puppets and foam balls. Other items include exercise books, ball-point pens, UNICEF-T-shirts, coloured markers, carrying bags, a UNICEF water container and bars of soap. All components are supplied ready-packed in a light-weight metal, lockable, stackable storage box weighing approximately 33 kilograms.
© UNICEF/NYHQ2009-1037/Susan Markisz
Learn more: http://www.unicef.org/earlychildhood/index_42890.html
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“What does a man need—really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in—and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That’s all—in the material sense. And we know it.
But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade.
The years thunder by. The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.
Where, then, lies the answer? In choice. Which shall it be: bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?
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-Sterling Hayden
(via muddybadger)
“To be fully alive requires knowing what you’d be willing to die for… Until you clarify that, life is just motion without meaning.”
“…As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.”
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DONE. Wow.
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We made a playlist of our favorite songs in 1998 for Property Of Zack. Hope you like them as much as we do!
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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
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