10 Cent Charity

Well, this is post number one hundred and fifty. I know I don’t often write anything truly in-depth or useful, and when I do it’s unfortunately usually about me. For this “milestone” though, I wanted to do something different. I wanted to do something that could be seen as useful to some degree.

Back a month or two ago on Piggy Bank, I wrote about how I bought a tin to collect all my shrapnel and spare money. And well, there’s a lot of it. That lead me to this idea, which i have to admit is influenced a little by killert00thbrush’s video for Twestival, and my addiction to SocialVibe.

Basically, for every comment made on this post (up to 10 per person. Have to set a limit.) by midnight on the 31st of October this year, I will donate twenty cents to charity. In broader terms, if I could get 50 people posting just one comment each, that becomes five dollars towards a good cause.
All that I ask from you is to make a comment, and link more people to this post. I’m not some famous internet star, and I don’t have lots of friends, so the only way to do this is by word of mouth; the more attention brought to this post, and the more people that comment as a result, the better.
At the end of these (nearly) two months, I’ll donate however much money the comments add up to. While I have the limit on number of comments (to prevent one person spamming it up hundreds of times), I do not on the amount to donate. If 100 ($10) comments are made, or 1000 ($100!!), I’ll still donate the money.

Oh, I should say what charity the money will go to. It took awhile to choose, because I didn’t want to donate to To Write Love On Her Arms as I’m already passively earning them money via SocialVibe. So after some thought, Blood:Water Mission seemed like a worthy cause for this money to go to.
Blood:Water Mission works to make the world more aware of both the HIV/AIDS and water crises in Africa, and provide funding for clean blood and water for Africans.
According to the organization’s website, just one dollar provides clean water for a whole year for an African. That’s so much for so little a cost. In turn with the project here, that means just ten comments will do the same.

So please make a comment here, and mention it to someone, so they in turn come here, see it and the cycle repeats. We’ll revisit this in a little under two months and see how much we can raise through this method. And now, to finish the post, a cliché of a phrase; Lets make a difference. I laugh as I type that but really, that’s the point of charity, and of this post, to try and make some sort of difference, to leave a positive mark on the world.

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