Kissed By A Giraffe, And Helping The Needy In Nairobi
 Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 by Connie T.
Shannon Elizabeth is in Kenya, Africa visiting the Abandoned Baby
Center, where she fell in love with a baby girl (who will be named after her) and was
kissed by a giraffe at a Giraffe Center built to save the diminishing giraffe population.
She wrote on her MySpace blog that she was happy for the opportunity - which will be
included in an upcoming documentary called "Eyes On Africa," which will come out sometime
in December - but was "sad to leave my
doggies and boyfriend for that long." (Wait, does that mean she's still dating DWTS's
Derek Hough?) Giving them money doesn't exactly solve the problem because
there have been many instances where men find out that money has been given to a family
and they go and beat up the mother until [she's] close to dead to get that money from
her. So then she's even worse off then when she started. So it's organizations like Feed
The Children that will step in and help. They help with many programs where they feed school
children every day - they give meds to people that are HIV positive free of charge - they
get donations of clothes, shoes, school supplies and more to help the children of these
areas - the list goes on and on. To read more of Shannon's blog, there's
much more here. Kudos,
Shannon!
Feed The Children
does not only help children in Africa; in fact, there are 1.35 million American children that
are homeless this summer, and need your help to be ready for school. To find out how you
can help, please visit FeedTheChildren.org.
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