Jenna Bush

USA President George W. Bush's daughter, Jenna Bush, has completed her first book -- "Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope" -- which is being published by Harper Collins. Ms. Bush's book is focused on a 17 year old single mother in Panama who is living with HIV and ends with a "call to action" for society to do more to combat HIV/AIDS and to help children overcome "exclusion."

I do hope this book sells well -- Harper Collins has committed to publish 500,000 in a first printing -- and that Ms. Bush's message helps thousands of children. However, there is a "but" here because Ms. Bush has announced that she will donate her earnings from this book to UNICEF -- the United Nation's entity which is focused on children.

Perhaps Ms. Bush feels obligated to help UNICEF because she is completing an internship with UNICEF but as I have noted on my flag ship blog (http://spacebeaglenotes.blogspot.com) UNICEF has historically used a form of child slavery that they call -- "Trick or Treat for UNICEF" which forced/coerced young children like I was years ago to carry little orange boxes during Halloween asking our neighbors to contribute money (not caramel apples!!) to UNICEF.

To this day I resent this exploitation by UNICEF so I continue my campaign to zero fund them. Ms. Bush -- if you want to help children around the world do NOT give your money to UNICEF. Please consider non-profit/private entities such as Room to Read (www.roomtoread.org) or Habitat for Humanity (www.habitat.org) who have truly made lives better versus enriching UNICEF-bureaucrats.

Donate wisely,

Todd