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Help From Home Newsletter - October 2009

Heart-4-Seniors - put a smile on a senior person's face by sending them a card to let them know that somebody cares about them

Ecofont - be 'green' and save upto 20% of your ink usage by installing the ecofont on your pc

Refugee Action - take action online to help refugees build a future for themselves

Wetlands Preserve - fights for earth, human and animal liberation via various tactics including online emails and letters

JackTheDonkey - the community where your time online supports the charity of your choice, for free via advertising generated revenue. Just visiting the website generates a donation!

AllExperts - think you know your stuff. Volunteer to become an expert in your chosen field and help answer queries posted by people all over the world

BananaLink - bring to justice the people who inflict violence onto banana union leaders in Guatemala via an email campaign

Distributed Proofreaders Canada - This is a web-based method to proofread a Public Domain book to ease it's conversion into an e-book. The focus is only Canadian material.

SITES OMITTED

Ask An Expert

Limbs For Life

The Action Blog

Survival International

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

FEATURED VOLUNTEER ACTION

Edison

Edison is a small piece of free software that you download and install onto your pc. It's an easy to se energy monitoring application, which with one little click you can save on the energy that your pc uses and therefore fight climate change.

However, Edison can be tweaked to suit your requirements. For instance you can tell it when you use your pc the most and it will optimize the energy savings to suit this mode. You can also the Edison efficiency slider to choose the level of energy savings you want to achieve.

Of course none of this is useful unless you can see the savings you're making, which Edison calculates and displays on screen.

This action can be found here

VOLUNTEER ACTIONS LISTED

Charity = 192

'Green' = 182

Advocacy = 120

SITES OF INTEREST

Charity Guide

Very similar to Help From Home in that it provides info on volunteer opportunities that you can perform in 15 minutes, a few hours or on vacation. It's tag line is 'Volunteer on Demand' and is aimed at the person who likes volunteer actions at their convenience.

Eat So They Can

Eat So They Can is an international fundraiser that invites citizens of the world to participate in what is collectively one huge dinner party; where donations are collected from dinner guests and donated to GVN Foundation to benefit the Kenyan Children's Fund, which supports Kenyan children in need.

CHARITY GAMES

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

FreeRice

For each word definition you answer correctly, 10 grains of rice are donated to UN World Food Program in an attempt to end world hunger. The rice is paid for by advertising sponsors, which do not get in the way of the game.

10 SECOND FREE DONATION

Click the link below to take you to a webpage that generates cash donations to programs that fund cancer research  - all at no cost to you. Just click on the blue 'I Fight Cancer' button.