Volunteer Help Needed

There is a whole world of population information available, and it would help the cause to make it readily available to the population-concerned.

There are many ways you can help, some of them with WOA!, some of them with other organizations. Or just by writing your congressperson.

For WOA!, which is not yet an organization, just a web publication, you can help in the one of the following ways:

News Summarization Editors: Because making people aware of the problem is so-o-o important, WOA! focuses on getting as much population information on it's site as possible, We have an urgent need to gather news from around the world, summarize it, and put it on the web. If you have good written English skills, and a desire to learn more about population issues and to inform others, then this job is for you.

To sign up for Article Summarization, click here.

News Link Chasing: We receive many news items where there is only a headline and a link to the article. All you would have to do is to look at a list of these articles, click on an article, which would take you to the article, and submit the actual article to WOA!! using an online form.

To sign up for News Link Chasing, click here.

Section Editor: WOA! has at least 20 sections, with more being added occasionally. See the left navigation bar for WOA!s various sections. A section editor would add news items, facts and figures, and essay submittals, as well as pertinent graphs and images, to his or her assigned section. The style of the section would be consistent with the rest of WOA!, but the arrangement of the section articles and links would be managed by the section editor. Prerequisites are some experience in WOA! News Summarization (#1 above) and knowledge of (or ability ot learn) basic, easy HTML. A good example of a Section that could be organized better is the Politics/Funding Section ... especially the bottom 2/3.

If you are interested in any of these positions (your reward will be self-satisfaction and the appreciation of WOA!s viewers), please sign up by clicking here.

If you want to help out by writing your congressman, study up on the issues; for example: http://www.overpopulation.org/newsScan.html#paialert and then go here for help: http://www.overpopulation.org/letters.html

If you are interested mainly in U.S. overpopulation, I can direct you to a number of organizations interested in reduction of immigration back to traditional levels (most of the population growth in the U.S. is due to immigration). Or, WOA! has a web page sections devoted to U.S. population dynamics: perhaps you would want to help out on that section.

If you are interested in global overpopulation (over 95% of the world's population growth occurs in the third world), Population Connection would be the place to go. If you want to help out with any local population group in your area, go to http://www.overpopulation.org/grassroots.html - for suggestions.

Artists, Cartoonists, Photographers, Writers We want the issue of overpopulation to be interesting to everyone. Nowadays dry words and statistics are not enough. We can use photos, cartoons, drawings and pictures, and text that grabs. There are plenty of material on the WOA web pages that needs artistic enrichment.

Cartoonists
Anything depicting overpopulation or the effects of overpopulation.

Cartoon Ideas:

This would be an animated gif. The trees and animals would change one-by-one to houses, cars, factories, people.
More cartoon ideas

Photographers
People of many lands. Also crowd scenes or other overpopulation ideas.

Graphs and Charts
Are you handy with Excel? A picture is worth a thousand words.

Email to:
Or U.S. mail to: World Population Awareness, P.O. Box 2533, Placerville CA 95667