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Coffee-a-week-fund

How about we run an awareness drive to collect the amount people would normally spend on one coffee in a week. After a month we could use the funds we raised to sponsor a train-the-training program for childcare providers in a 3rd world community. Depending on how much we raise, we could send a person each month to teach communities how to plant food, and then how to teach others how to plant and tend their crops. Because we might not raise enough to go across the world to Africa or India, perhaps it might be useful to start more close-by with communities that are suffering from poverty and malnutrition...

Brittany      (Monday, 22 June 2009 @ 23:56)

Interesting idea Lisa! Maybe we could latch on to a community organization whose vision aligns with this--one that already supports aid to countries where poverty and malnutrition is a major issue. We could pitch the idea and setup the business plan for it. If it''s a global organization, we would have a lot less trouble seeing that the training program is implemented effectively. Just a thought ...