Blogger Loses Everything in Fire

Just read this post and wanted to pass it along in hopes that others would help:

Fellow Blogger loses everything...
January 21, 2012, Posted by Donna at 11:05 am

One of our fellow bloggers and dear friend Yara lost everything yesterday in a devastating house fire. She and her family are all safe, but they have lost everything.

If you want to help Yara and her family we suggest you do so through the Twilight Moms site. If you want to support Yara, please follow this link.

We totally trust that Lisa and the Twilight Moms will make sure every penny reaches Yara and her family. And every penny will help them rebuild the pieces of their world.

Sending positive thoughts your way, Yara!
~EFG Staff

To help and/or donate, please click here.

Celebrating Books From and About the Philippines

Many thanks to Tarie from Into the Wardrobe for the heads-up about the updates at PaperTigers.org. We've linked to PaperTigers here at the readergirlz blog before, and I'm always glad to point folks back there again. PaperTigers, in their own words, "embraces multicultural books from or about anywhere in the world, with a particular focus on the Pacific Rim and South Asia." Throughout October and November, they are spotlighting children's literature from and about the Philippines -- Check it out!

Rgz and Bloggers Unite for World AIDS Day

Today is World AIDS Day, and while modern medicine has made HIV less threatening in the short term here in the US, it's still a huge issue that faces our world. Take, for instance, the fact that there was a 34 percent increase in HIV and AIDS cases diagnosed among teenagers 15 to 19 from 2003 to 2006, according to The New York Times.

We're joining with Bloggers Unite to spread awareness of World AIDS day today, and there is a wealth of information on how you can get involved here.

Since we at readergirlz are book lovers, we have to mention the lyrical Push by Sapphire, a graphic, harrowing story of a girl named Precious who deals with pregnancy, incest, abuse, HIV, and, in the end, hope.

What other books have you read that deal with HIV and AIDS?