When I began Eco Child’s Play over a year and a half ago, I pledged to make Kiva loans on behalf of our blog. After making several Kiva loans, I’ve decided it is time to donate to and highlight different organizations helping families and/or the environment around the world. This month, I have made a donation to Women for Women International on behalf of Eco Child’s Play.
Despite being banned by the government of Burma (also Myanmar), Google has said that it will donate up to $1 million USD to assist victims of Cyclone Nargis.
Google has offered to match donations made to UNICEF and Direct Relief International for all donations made at Google’s Support disaster relief in Myanmar page, up to one million dollars.
Internet users in Burma reported that access to Google and Gmail had been blocked by the strict military junta governing the country in the summer of 2006. By this time, Yahoo and Hotmail had already made the censored IT blacklist.
Not satisfied to “go carless,” or even have a carectomy performed, University of Wisconsin Ph.D. candidate David Zaks has announced his plans to divorce his car. Fortunately, the car is taking it well, and moving on… to New Orleans, in fact, to help out with post-Katrina reconstruction efforts. Help David finalize his divorce… we all need support at times like these.
So I wouldn’t say we were incredibly green this weekend, but we were relatively green.
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When you get a new eyeglass prescription, even though your old pair of specs will no longer be useful to you they might be useful to someone else. Next time you get new frames, instead of throwing your glasses away donate them to an organization that will give the gift of sight to those who might not otherwise be able to afford it.
Several charity organizations accept your old prescription glasses to help people in
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