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Sometimes, even the best of projects have to buckle under the strain of the burdens life has to offer. One such project is the Get-Well Gamers foundation, which was dedicated to bringing games to kids in hospitals around the United States. Apparently, GWG is facing its own crisis, as the head of the foundation, Ryan Sharpe, is also juggling other duties with his studies. As Ryan wrote,
The Foundation has grown tremendously since I first started it. Unfortunately, my capacity to deal with the foundation has not grown accordingly. If anything, it has decreased, as my workload increases the closer I get to graduationÂ…
I had two staffers who I could trust to help me run the foundationÂ… Unfortunately, one of them recently moved to Washington, and the other has full-time school and a part-time job to contend withÂ…
We need a shipping managerÂ… We need a secretaryÂ… We need someone to handle our website. We need an accountantÂ… Most of all we need an officeÂ…
So, barring some miraculous occurrence, this canÂ’t happenÂ… So when you notice the website is down and you havenÂ’t heard of any new hospitals or whatnot, itÂ’s because of this. The foundation has grown beyond the capabilities of its founder, and thereÂ’s no one available to take the reigns.
The question now is, what can be done to keep Get-Well Gamers alive? According to Game Politics, their site has already gone down. It'd be sad to see a great cause take a dive like this.Again, thank you very much for your support over the years, and I hope we can work together again when the Foundation starts back up. I can promise at least that IÂ’ll never let the Foundation die - it just has to rest for a while until thereÂ’s someone that can take care of it.
Via Game Politics
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put up a paypal donate button somewhere, n send the funds to GWG
a good idea and its sad it has to go away for x amount of time. I guess donations are one thing but its hard to get actual people to do what it takes. too bad they couldn't put the word out sooner. I would have donated my time as much as possible to work at something like this.
it is ashame to see such a noble cause go. perhaps they should have considered sponserships with the big companies. video games take ALOT of heat and this is definitely onething to change the hearts and minds of the sheeplike masses. companies here in the states should have been contacted from the jump to see if they would particapate, not only providing goods but help with services. i'm sure rockstar games, of them all, would have loved the op to jump on this bandwagon. positive PR for them and bad news for leetchy laywer poli-jerk. maybe when they make their triumphant comeback this will be there way.
WTF?!
"A noble cause"?!
Yeah dedicating time and money so taht sick little rich american kids can play games in hospital...
You should be ASHAMED!!!
A real noble cause would be selling these games and game consoles and giving the proceeds to an association working with the victims of the GENOCIDE that's taking place in Dafur.
everyone has a point...playing games in a hospital...it is fun idea, but there are iunfinietly nmore important things to attend to. I would personally rather donate to the HELPLESS victims of the genocide thing in Dafur (as that last person commented) than for a kid (who is being helped by doctors, has family, and friends) to play Xbox.
Although im sure those kids could use some cheering up...how does that slogan go?
"making the world a better place, one little thing at a time."
So, you recommend that anyone who does something to help someone, should abandon this in preference for a more worthy cause?
We both know that every hospitalized child in America is not wealthy. A few people doing what they can with their free time to make someone else's life a little better, this is absolutely noble.
Your comments on the other hand, pure foolishness.
Instead of going to just the hospitalized, go to those who have lost family in the War in Iraq....Go to their families and give them a gaming console... So that maybe their lives will seem less harsh on them... show them that they aren't alone and everything is against them.
Do this....You may see that its well deserved.
How about I use the money to buy myself PS3's and Wii's and PSP's and games and ***** and tell everyone else to go ***** themselves and make their own money. K?
Thank you everyone for your comments. I know videogames might not be the most important thing in the world, but I do what good with what I have. I'm sure if I had international aid contacts and whatnot I could do things on a grander scale, but I don't. I know gamers and publishers and game companies, so I do what good I can with those resources.
Or at least I did. :(
I cant read.
then how can u write?
I really admire what you are doing and hope that you can continue it soon. When the PS3 and Wii came out I got about 4 of each and some games and took them to children's hospitals and foster homes in my area. The kids really loved them and it was the most rewarding thing I have ever done. I will most likely get them some more games for the summer so they can enjoy something new. It's better than writing a check to an agency since I know the money is going to something the kids can enjoy and not being "garnished" by the leaders of the company.
I get tired of people saying we need to help people in Africa, darfur or some other crap country. Why not help the children in our own country first then once we get our stuff straight then we can begin to help others. I mean how many other countries have sent money to help out our sick and starving kids? none
Boo hoo. Shut the hell up, if um wants to use his money the way he see fit, go ahead. Quite frankly I don't see how giving kids a video games (and apperntly not up to date ones going by the N64 in the pic) is going to help jack *****. If they don't have the money to buy ther eown game,s clearly they must need moeny for THE ACTUAL AILMENT THEN IN THE F-EN HOSPITAL FOR. How about helping them with THAT. At the end of the day, stop trying to feel like you deserve a pat on the back because you gave a kid N64. Theres more important things at hand, then "aww, he could really use some pokemon". STFU.
All GWG is doing is helping kids take a break from all of their troubles. I had open heart surgery when i was seven years old and let me tell u i very grateful that the hospital i stayed in had a SEGA Genesis if it wasnt for the original Madden i would have gone stir crazy. regardless of how u feel about this issue GWG helps kids be kids no matter how sick they are.
Like donating to find the cure for cancer. Not some damn video games.
donate your phuckin money to whatever cause you so choose. don't expect others to do your bidding, bunch of reatrded miscreants. i live in the US and only care about the US. i can help myself, not the phuckin world. maybe it's time for the rest of the world to stand up for itself and do what they need to do for themselves. CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME. this is my home, this is where it begins for me. this country and inhabitants waste billions of dollars every year helping the world. but the world doesn't help us with crap. there are starving and homeless orphans in this country that DON'T get the same breaks starving homeless children in somolia get, FROM THE SAME DAMN NATION THEY LIVE IN. i see the BS commercials every damn day, and it makes me sick. i do what i can for whom i can, and it will be here. not some sickened 3rd world nation i never heard of. survival of the fittest, guess their times up. deal with it and move on.
I wouldn't know anything about charity. I'm a greedy money and possession mongering whore that buys whatever I want.
F*ck the xbots!
I'd rather blow that money on crap like the PS3 than donate.
I think this is crap. Kids want a cure so they don't need to spend so much time in the hospital not some games.
PS3 FTW!
THIS IsNT PSP NEWS!!!! STICK TO YOUR GUNS! THIS KIND OF ***** IS DETRIMENTAL TO THE PSP COMMUNITY!
***** want some *****?? qj suck my ***** and like it cuz i no u think its tasty u little *****