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Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty

Today is Blog Action Day 2008, and the topic of action today is Poverty. Since I personally use the web for my activism and other forms of social action, I'll try to convey some ways that you can do the same.


First, there are two extremely easy ways to do a little bit to help eliminate poverty. The Hunger Site donates the proceeds of site advertising to charities that fight hunger in the U.S. and internationally. There is also a store where you can buy cool gifts and donate to fight hunger, and there are related sites that donate to child health and literacy, two other causes that impact poverty around the world. A similarly easy (but addictive) initiative to combat hunger is Free Rice, a game that rewards correct answers in vocabulary, geography, and other subjects with a gift of 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program.

If you want to give more directly to initiatives that help poor people improve their lot, there are many online charities that accept donations. Two of my favorite are also partnering with Blog Action Day. Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world; track your donations to Blog Action Day here.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is accepting donations through Blog Action Day partner Change.org. I have an account on that social action network, which is in the midst of a facelift, but I see a lot of energy being expended there and all over the net today, raising awareness and money in support of ending poverty.


Finally, the Blog Action Day site is full of ideas, including answers to the question "What can one person do?" Let's all try to do something today and into the future to end hunger, improve sanitation, fight disease, and everything else necessary to fight poverty around the globe.

Labels: bad08, blog, poverty

   Link: http://blogactionday.org/

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