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Help From Home Newsletter - December 2009

Re:cycled Tweets - Recycle those pointless Tweets you receive. For every Tweet that's recycled, one penny will be donated to the TRASHed program and you'll also receive a beautiful new Tweet recycled from the characters of the original Tweet!

MadeBig - Play games, earn points, convert to pledges, donate pledges to charities. Pledges mean cash. When a pledge target is reached, money gets donated to a charity. Click on the 'Games' tag.

Yahoo Answers - Answer questions about, for example, fundraising ideas, charities, community service, name suggestions for charities – anything related to serving the community. There are loads more categories to choose from but this link takes you to the 'Community Service' section.

Barnardo's Believe in Children - Barnardo's needs your help to influence the UK Government to make the right choices for UK children. You can help by raising this issue in your local newspaper via an email.

Envirofone - Recycle your old mobile phone for cash, via a prepaid envelope and offset your phone's carbon with C02 Balance.

Ghosts of Burton - Help researchers in their quest to spot a ghost with this ghost cam. Click on the upper right image and let the researchers know if you spot anything out of the ordinary. It's set up in a haunted Art Studio.

Labour Behind The Label - Labour Behind the Label supports garment workers' efforts worldwide to defend their rights. Various online campaigns available.

Hair For Oil Spills Program - Collect and post your hair to this organisation so that it can be used for hairmats that help to soak up oil spills, which in turn reduces the damage that oil spills have on the environment.

SITES OMITTED

ClickWorkers

All sites omitted because they have either closed down or are no longer operational.

FEATURED VOLUNTEER ACTION

The Rosetta Project

The Rosetta Project is an online library of fine illustrated antique children's books, which has grown from the work of a single man with a handful of books in 1996 to a vibrant volunteer driven organisation, publishing new books and translations every week. These days the library contains tens of thousands of beautiful illustrated pages which have been gathered together over the years by volunteers.

It accepts books in all languages and their plan is to include sound files of the books so that all the children world-wide can read and listen to these stories. Categories of books range from 'Pre-Reader' right through to 'Adult Readers'. They also have multi media books as well as books with audio.

Ways in which you can help out are by donating books, scanning in books or translating the books into various languages. They are after books that were published before 1930.

This action can be found here in the 'Book Scanning Category' category.

VOLUNTEER ACTIONS LISTED

Charity = 198

'Green' = 184

Advocacy = 123

SITES OF INTEREST

World Changing

Worldchanging.com is a nonprofit media organization that comprises a global network of independent journalists, designers and thinkers. They cover the world’s most innovative solutions to the planet’s problems, and inspire readers around the world with stories of new tools, models and ideas for building a bright green future.

Caring Bridge

Caring Bridge provide free, personalized websites that connect family and friends during a serious health event. Caring Bridge makes easier to share health updates and receive messages of love and support.

CHARITY GAMES

Play a game and a donation goes to charity at no cost to you.

Feeding America

Answer trivia questions on food and every correct answer will provide 5 pounds of good, nutricious food for people who really need it in America. All donations are paid for by Kraft Foods.

10 SECOND FREE DONATION

Click the link below to take you to a webpage that donates free books to children - all at no cost to you. Just click the green-ish 'Click Here to Give – It's FREE' button when you get there. Easy life!