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Welcome to the homepage of Homebound'ers
XChange ! We're an e-list community of people with chronic
illnesses and disabilities who:
- Have home businesses
- Have hobbies and talents or interests
- Who generally have trouble gettting
out shopping due to our illnesses
- Who often have special needs that are
difficult to find, like cotton clothing, fragrance free
items etc
- And generally like to do what we can
to help others with Chronic illnesses !
But we're not all disabled, some of our
members come to share their skills and talents with the
disabled too! Anyone who is interested in assisting those
who are chronically ill are welcome here.
The purpose of the list is to:
- Let others know about your home business
or service
- Offer items you make for sale or swap
- Offer to swap things of interest,
like postcards, bookmarks, etc that you collect.
- Swap or sell anything, like that pair
of pants you bought and didn't fit but you couldn't
return
- Request items or services you're looking
for
But there's more! We are a Christian based
group who is both concerned about the welfare of those
who are chronically ill. We understand that society as
a whole, including churches are not very informed about
what its like to live with a chronic illness. They don't
know much about our illnesses, often they've heard very
little about them and so don't understand how limiting
they are. We share advocacy ideas, discuss ways in which
we can educate those around us and encourage organization
of ministries to the chronically ill by youth groups,
churches and the community. Many people with chronic illnesses
have very limited budgets. Some are on disbility or assistance.
Some dont' even have that. Many times these people loose
their homes, can't buy the medications and aids they need
or even groceries. We hope to be able to reach out and
help where we can, by helping to make phone calls or referrals
of names of agencies and churches that may assist as well
as even putting together 'care packages' ourselves when
possible. Therefore you will also find these on the list:
- Prayer requests for those you've meet
that are in dire straights and need a helping hand
- (of course prayer requests of any nature)
- Posts related to advocacy issues and
educating others and political issues related to disability
If these things are of interest to you
we'd love to see you on the list. Click on the button
below to join!
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