The need to disarm the LRA continues

I may not support the Invisible Children nor its current campaigns but we still need to apply pressure on world leaders and UN peacekeeping forces to capture Joseph Kony.  Thanks to the work of the Invisible Children Organization, ordinary citizens around the world, know more about Joseph Kony and the terrible crimes the LRA have committed and will continue to commit if the International Community do not continue to apply pressure.

We know that this takes more than a few stop KONY 2012 posters that will cover the walls tonight and leave a huge clean-up bill in the morning.  Stopping and disarming Kony and the LRA requires an intelligent and stragic approach to addressing the many issues facing the people of Central Africa. To let the world fall silent on this issue again is criminal.

There are many organization on the ground besides The Invisible Children. Such as Conscious (DRC); Orphan Assistance Union of Zemio (UAOZ);  ; Orphan Assistance Union of Zemio / UAOZ (CAR); Women's movement for peace; and Action to Identify and develop Reconstruction Effort/ AIDER to name just a few.  A list of agenices and straggeries we can all support can be found here.


This current war is more than 'child's play' but if as individuals we stand up to the plat and combine our collective intelligences, put pressure on world leaders surely the LRA and their supporters can be disarmed.  It's time we listen to the children of Central Africa and heard there voices.

Behind every good book there's a flood of knowledge

Have you read a book full of wisdom and knowledge lately?

Or may be just a great book that helped you escape from

the reality of the pressures of life for a few hours.

If you could recommend a book to someone else what would it be?

How do you chose which book to read next?

We can explore all these things at our 

Read & Swap

You are invited to gather your Favorited books

and bring them along to our Read & Swap

On Thursday 26th April 2012

We're meeting outside

 the Riverlink Coffee Club @ 6pm

NORTH IPSWICH 

Some of us are having a cuppa & a bit to eat

while we share the books we love to read.

You may like to swap a book with someone 

and try reading something you wouldn't normally read!

As a Pay It Forward Gesture 

you may like to give someone a book.

This is our official Pay It Forward Day Event 

In memory of Vance Hyde 

Phone Debbie on 0412 401 788 for more information

You all want your kids to grow up in a better World - PIF

"We all know we can do more. Live simply so more can simply live!"

WORLDWIDE Pay It Forward Book Flash mob London & Brighton UK

Flyers now available!

Flyers for our

Ipswich Pay It Forward Day Event

Read & Swap

are now available from Debbie

or telephone on 0421 401 788

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Announcement

Read and Swap

Vance Hyde Pay It Forward Day 2012

April 26 th @ 6pm

Riverlink Shopping Centre

North Ipswich 

For info phone 0421 401 788

"Vance Hyde 1922 – 2012 was the mother of Catherine Ryan Hyde. Catherine wrote the Bestseller “Pay It Forward”. On the 26th April Vance would have celebrated her 90th Birthday, which is also international PAY IT FORWARD DAY! To honour her memory this year we have renamed April 26 VANCE HYDE PAY IT FORWARD DAY. Pay It Forward is simply giving random acts of kindness such as carrying someone’s shopping to the car or buying a stranger a cup of coffee. As members of the Pay It Forward Experience we believe small random acts of kindness everyday can help transform the world. This year when we pay it forward we are doing it in Vance Hyde’s memory." 

We invite you to come have a bite to eat or a coffee while we catch about the books we love and share them with others too.  As a means of Pay It Forward bring a book you'd like to swap with someone or give to a shopper that you loved reading and you could read it again & again.  

Kids of all ages welcome

0 years - 100 years plus! 

 

Pay it forward in memory of Vance Hyde

VANCE HYDE PAY IT FORWARD DAY

April 26 2012

This year when you undertake random acts of kindness on April 26 we ask that you do it in memory of Vance Hyde (1922 0 2012).  On April 26 Vance would of celebrated her 90 th Birthday, however see passed away last month. Vance was a much loved member of the Pay It Forward Community and the daughter of Catherine Ryan Hyde the author of Pay It Forward. Before the bracelet; before the movie and even be Catherine penned the book was her mum Vance, thus it could be said Vance has given birth to the Pay It Forward Movement.  As a movement we are motivated to carrying our random acts of kindness at any time. These acts can range from opening the door for someone, writing to a prisoner or nursing home resident, supporting a postcard to a random person, buying the person in front of you a cup of coffee or paying for someone's fuel while expecting nothing in return.  However sometimes it can be an organise event to help a person, organization or community.  Vance Hyde Pay It Forward Day 2012 is a great day to do any of these in memory of Vance.   For more information click here.  Recently we had a global share the book flash mob. Where we shared the books that shaped as lives in the hope it would do the same for someone else and they to would pay it forward to someone.

 In Australia it is National Year of Reading as a writer I do see a better way of Paying It Forward than encouraging people to read, gain knowledge and wisdom, in particular the young.  I admit that our Flash Mob in Ipswich didn't create ad huge flash, but being undertured we want to correct that.  A few of us have been talking and we think its still one of the best ways to Pay It Forward in our community.  So where talking about a bring, reading and swap books event on Vance Hyde Pay It Forward Day!  We're toss about some different venues, times and style if event.  Talking books over coffee or lunch. Reading a good book should be relaxing.  We just want to bring and share the books we love and love to read. The two viable options are coffee somewhere Thursday night or a picnic brunch on the Saturday. If you want to put your two cents in then nows the time to do it. Leave us a comment on out blog or facebook page. 

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Share the Book

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Random Acts of Kindness

Book Review

Hunger games by Suzanne Collins, Is the first book in the tioliogy of the Huger Games Series I am finding it an absolute page turner constantly entering my train of thought, not since I read the Power of One by Bryce Country has the injustice society can inflict on others that make up our humanity, gotten under my skin.  Although set in a fictitious country, the brutality we can inflict on those who we rule over is amazing conflicting, the we in a matter of weeks can be reduce to living like animals when forced to fight for our survival.  If you thought Lord of the flyers was an incitement of the human spirit - Hunger Games will set your spirit of fire as to rages agianist what we can be reduced to.  

Each year a lottery is held to selected two constants to compete to a survival game in which only one will win and survive.  The story is told by 16 year old Katniss. Who volunteers to take part in the Hunger Games for District 12. After her younger sister's name was drawn in the lottery the year she turned 12, the first year a person becomes eligible to compete.  It is rare for someone to volunteer from district and only twice has district 12 won the games.  There lives are now dependant on former winner and district drunk as he mentors Katniss and Peetz to compete.  No one expects much from a competitor form district 12, until Katniss steps into the arena and casts her spell. . . 

Our Next Event

Vance Hyde Pay It Forward Day

26th April 2012

Vance and her daughter Catherine
"Much loved members of the Pay It Forward community"

On the 26th April Vance Hyde would of celebrated her 90th Birthday.  Vance was the mother of Catherine Ryan Hyde the author of Pay It Forward the book.  Catherine was the first person to be inducted into the Pay It Forward Hall of fame in 2011.  Vance passed away a few weeks ago.  We in the movement have renamed Pay It Forward Day in her honour.  This year on April 26, when you Pay it Forward we are asking you do it in Vance's memory. 

We have special cards for pdf down load coming in time for your Vance Hyde Pay It Forward event. But the regular Pay It Forward Day cards are downloadable from our resource page. 

Click to download


More info on the events taking place that day to come.

  

Hungary 

London

The Day we Shared the Book

That meant something to us!

On March 28th 2012 people around the globe gathered in 60 different locations at 4pm local time. Each with one single purpose to share a book which inspired them or some how touched their lives.  In the hope that they  would give someone they have never meet to have the opportunity to do the same. As means of paying it forward into somebody's life. This event was in initial only planed to take place in London's Trafalgar square as a presequal to another event. Until someone decided to be bold enough to see if they could make it global and sop the flagged the idea in a global facebook community called Pay It Forward and people around the world put up their hand to coordinated an flash mob locally in their town or city. In Brisbane, in Auckland, in Bristol, in Africa, in Hungary, in Chicago and me in Ipswich. As a result thousands of books around the world were shared and Pay It Forward bracelets too! ,   In public places, parks, libraries, schools and coffee shops people sat and read the books that meant something to them and helped shaped their lives in some way and then something happen. People began to stand and walk towards others and they began to exchange books and then there was no one, within 3 minutes people had gathered, read books, chatted,  swapped books and then gone about there daily lives as if nothing had happened at all . . . but something had happened, something had changed and it had happened around the world.  Thousands of people had shared, thousands of books! We had achieved our mission. 

Melbourne 

Brisbane

London

Belfast 

Union Station Tarntro 

Ipswich

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Pay It Forward Flash Mob 28/3/12