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The Endicott Children's Charities . . . and how you can help | ||||
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In America, despite this country's enormous wealth, too many of our children still grow up without adequate food, health care, education, or the simple guarantee of a safe bed to sleep in at night. Physical, psychological and sexual violence against children happens behind closed doors in all neighborhoods, all kinds of families, rich and poor alike. Kids need our help to open the gates to a healthy, humane, creative adult life.
The Endicott Studio supports two organizations working with children in our U.S. home community of Tucson, Arizona. You can support them too, every time you buy a book through our web site. (See "How it Works" to learn more.) A portion of the money collected through this web site from our association with Amazon.com, is sent to two children's organizations: |
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Casa de los Niños The Casa operates a shelter for abandoned, runaway, abused, and neglected children of all ages, races, and backgrounds, from tiny babies to teenagers. They also provide health care aid and counseling for troubled families, and sponsor child abuse prevention outreach programs in the Tucson commuity. They receive no government funding and depend entirely on donations to run their large shelter which is, sadly, filled to capacity each night. To learn more about the Casa and its programs, visit the Casa de los Niņos Web site. |
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Talking Feather This small organization, run by Rupert and Jodi Enervices, helps Native American children of the Tohono O'odham nation on the San Xavier reservation near Tucson. Rupert Encinas is a ceremonial leader and educator who believes in the importance of traditional cultural teachings, stories, myths, and ceremonies as an integral part of helping troubled children and shattered families restore lives of dignity and health. His work includes providing access to Native American ceremonies to children (particularly children from alcoholic or violent homes); teaching children their own Tohono O'odham language, stories, and songs; and preserving Tohono O'odham rites and history. Visit the Talking Feather page to learn more. |
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Fairy Tales and the Healing Journey Myths and fairy tales can play an important role in overcoming childhood trauma. Just as the symbolic figures in nightly dreams reflect the realities of our waking life, the symbols to be found in fairy tales and myths (which are the collective dreams of entire cultures) provide useful metaphors for grappling with the hard truths of our existence. These old tales have much to say about heroism; about how one finds the courage to fight and prevail against adversity. The Armless Maiden and Other Tales of Childhood's Survivors A number of Endicott authors contributed to this volume of stories and poems (for adult readers) using fairy tale themes to explore the dark side of childhood's passage. The book was edited by Terri Windling, published by Tor Books in 1995, and short-listed for the James Tiptree Jr. Award. Although now out of print, used copies can be found through Amazon.com or abe.com. Learn more about the creation of the book on our Heroes page. The Borderland Series Endicott authors also contributed to the "Borderland" series of stories and novels for teenage readers, about homeless and runaway children in a magical city on the edge of Faerie. The Borderland books to date are: Borderland, Bordertown, Life on the Border, The Essential Bordertown, Elsewhere, Nevernever, and Finder. Other recommended reading Fiction
Further resources Visit The Zero, the Web site of Andrew Vachss (mystery writer and tireless advocate for children), for an excellent list of links to sites concerning child abuse, and child advocacy organizations. |
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"Adults can change their circumstances; children cannot. Children are powerless, and in difficult situations they are the victims of every sorrow and mischance and rage around them, for children feel all these things but without any of the ability that adults have to change them. Whatever can take a child beyond such circumstances, therefore, is an alleviation and a blessing. I quickly found for myself two such blessings - the natural world, and the world of writing: literature. These were the gates through which I vanished from a difficult place." | |
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— Mary Oliver, from Blue Pastures | |
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