[wplug] Issues with the Homeless Children's Fund website

[JUDI GALARDI]

I attended the Summit II for the Fund on April 8, 2011.  There are a few 
problems with their website which I think we may be able to correct.

It takes three clicks to get to the 	contact phone numbers. 
A.   Setting the numbers in a banner on top of their homepage may fix that.

B. Some of these children may not be able to read, thus will not know what the 
word   “contact” means.  Maybe just using the word  “help”.

	1. Giving them a phone number – 			even assuring them that the taxi or private 
car being sent is 			being driven by a trustworthy person – may not be enough.   
Some 			of these children have been on the street – pimping themselves 			or 
being pimped—since the age of six or seven.  Being told the 			person coming to 
pick them up will have ID's may not be enough. At 			their young age, they are 
already very world weary.  I am not sure 			what the solution for this is. 


	1. The older children may have 			committed crimes – either to feed 
themselves—or to appease the 			criminal that “adopted” them.  One pimp was 
quoted as saying: 			“They get three days in Heaven and spend the rest of their 
days 			in hell.”

I hope someone can come up with other ideas to solve the painful situation these 
children (young and old) are in.   We can supply computers, but getting the 
children to the shelters for their own safety is a very different problem.  Yet 
it is something that needs to be in place quickly.  Their lives may depend upon 
it.

Judith A. Galardi
April 12, 2011
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