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Help From Home Newsletter - September 2009

Open Green Map - allows you to chart natural, cultural and green living sites in your community and worldwide.

RNIB - save your stamps for the Royal National Institute for the Blind and help to improve the lives of visually impaired people

GoodSearch - install the GoodSearch Toolbar to your internet browser and for every search you make, they'll donate to your favourite cause at no cost to you

SITES OMITTED

Floxter

Cambrian House

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

FEATURED VOLUNTEER ACTION

Mother Bear Project

The Mother Bear Project is dedicated to providing comfort and hope to a child, primarily those affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa, by giving them a gift of love in the form of a hand-knitted and crocheted bear. The bears are normally accompanied with a tag signed by the knitter. It is hoped that the child, who will have nearly nothing in the world, is felt loved by someone, even though that person may be half way around the world.

Knitting patterns are available from the site and once a bear is completed, it can either be posted or dropped off at various locations within the US. The project can also be helped out with donations of packing tape, yarn, knitting needles and polyfil.

'Make a bear, make a difference'.

This action can be found here under 'General Craftwork' on the 'Help From Home' website

VOLUNTEER ACTIONS LISTED

Charity = 189

'Green' = 181

Advocacy = 119

SITES OF INTEREST

The Nag

From angry rants and inspirational ideas, through to clusters of suggestions and real actions, The Nag is designed to let people be people, combine forces and collaboratively change things for the better and solve crucial environmental and social problems.

TribeWanted

Tribewanted is a unique cross-cultural community tourism project on Vorovoro Island, Fiji and a global online social network. The aim of Tribewanted is that the evolving island community becomes a model for cross-cultural sustainable living that positively impacts and inspires both locally in northern Fiji and globally online to improving the way we live.

CHARITY GAMES

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

TriviaForCharity

Pick a charity. Answer as many free questions on trivia as you can. Each correct question counts towards a donation to your chosen charity. Your visit is converted into advertising revenue, which is then distributed to humanitarian charity projects.

10 SECOND FREE DONATION

Click the link below to take you to a webpage that generates cash donations to programs that attempt to actively protect the remaining rainforests  - all at no cost to you. Just click on the 'Save The Rainforest' button.