Jessicas Voice

Ideas to make a difference

 

Ideas to make a difference

Listen- I just ran through your site- and I have no idea if your missing a very possible means to make some noise. REAL noise.
Start out by contacting every local paper/ rag in your area- offer the reporters lunch, pictures, interviews. Try to get a couple up on the idea of spending a day in the life, type of thing. The more you get the new out there, talked about, the more the general public will be likely to pressure changes.
Teeshirts? Nice idea but then they don't tell the story do they? Use a personal computer- edit a few pics and the story together as fold over leaflets or hand bills and hand the things out! Leave them by cash-outs at local stores, supermarkets, playgrounds, fairs, whatever you can think of. Hit a few shopping centers and hand them out- ask to hand a few in store windows. If you go out to lunch- tuck them into the menus to be found by the next customers.
Contact local businesses that may be willing to offer products or services for a blind/ attending auction. Some stores may even be willing to hatch a deal with you such as a small percentage of total days sales toward your cause in return for you advertising that they are doing so. Stores would get the extra exposure and you get some possible donation money.
Contact every news channel in your area- anyone and everyone with a talking show you can think off. Call the toll free lines and beg them to help- a blurb on one of those shows could start an avalanche of help. Heck- Contact the talking heads over here too- such as Oprah (never met a sob story she couldn't wrap herself around).
Lastly- ( for ideas off the top of my head) File a lawsuit- file dozens. One against the father- for cruel and unusual punishments- toward Jess. Then claim him as an abusive and neglectful parent (from what I have read here- you may be able to win that one)Lawsuit against your child welfare programs over there for failor to protect Jess against this legal preceding and being sent OUT OF JURISDICTION to an abusive parent. File against the courts for basic malpractice. You may also want to pursue avenues with the USA- Being that her mother is an American- that makes Jess one of our citizens.


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