"I am currently working on finding three charities to whom I can be useful and with whom I can build a good relationship, with a particular emphasis on groups helping dispossessed or abused or destitute children, groups helping children to reconnect with nature and groups seeking the restoration of damaged ecosystems.
The result remains the same: a tragedy for those who died, their friends and families, and a great loss for those they were trying to help – the dispossessed of Afghanistan.
In Brazil, he created Circo da Madrugada, born out of workshops that were part of a social programme helping the dispossessed in shantytowns.
It's not for nothing that Al Gore also endorsed this idea during the campaign: it channels federal help to the dispossessed (some $8 billion a year in the Bush version).
He also hailed the pope's call to help the poor and dispossessed.
That core is the belief that no religion is superior to another, that the edicts and teachings of all faiths underscore the values of extending a helping hand to the dispossessed, embracing others with love, and spreading (not proselytizing) the message that charity, good will and good cheer help transform people and their societies into better entities.
What passion caused her to commit her life to helping the needy and dispossessed?
How will that ideological insistence on limited government translate into practical help for Houston's homeless and dispossessed?
David Cameron has attacked Labour's "rank hypocrisy" in calling for him to boycott the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka as he claimed his visit to the country's war-torn north will help give a voice to the dispossessed.
After 9/11, at the Labour party conference in Brighton, I outlined a vision of a world in which the richest countries were committed to helping "the starving, the wretched, the dispossessed, the ignorant, those living in want and squalor from the deserts of northern Africa to the slums of Gaza, to the mountain ranges of Afghanistan".
