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Help From Home Newsletter - June 2010

Isara - Simply make Isara.org your browser homepage and you'll help fund their charity projects each time you visit at no cost to you! All revenue is paid for by sponsors.

Project Laundry List - Tumble dryers use 10 to 15% of domestic energy in the US. Hanging your washing out to dry will save this energy. Petition the Whitehouse to hang their clothes out to dry during a one day photo opp in a symbolic gesture to encourage others to do the same.

Outfits for Orphans - This is a Yahoo Group that exists to sew, knit or crochet clothing for the approx 12 million children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. Put your crafting skills to good use and join the group.

Limbs of Love - Limbs of Love is a charitable organization whose mission is to provide limbs to those patients in the US that have lost a limb but do not have the resources to pay for a prosthetic device. You can donate your used limbs using the postal address provided on the website.

The Brightside Trust - The Brightside Trust exists to help disadvantaged individuals by working to raise their achievement levels and by reducing the social barriers to their success via their e-mentoring scheme. Become an e-mentor and change an individual's life.

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Glupod

Frugal Reader

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

FEATURED VOLUNTEER ACTION

Hair For Oil Spills Program

The Hair for Oils Spills Program is run by Matter of Trust in collaboration with thousands of salons throughout the US and abroad, who donate their hair clippings to soak up oil spills. Phil McCrory, a hair stylist from Alabama, first discovered how hair can help when he was watching CNN coverage on the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. He noticed the fur on the Alaskan otters were completely soaked with oil and intrigued by this, he began testing how much oil he could collect with the hair clipping from his salon. Phil then invented the hairmat which is now used, amongst other things, as a way of soaking up oil.

Although this program obtains its hair mostly through salons, it will acceot donations from individuals. Any length of hair is fine and any type of hair is fine as well, ie. (straight, curly, all colors, dyed, permed, straightened...). They do request that the hair is washed and that it be only head hair that is donated! A postal address is available to post the hair off to the organisation.

This action can be found here

VOLUNTEER ACTIONS LISTED

'Do Good' = 213

'Green' = 193

Advocacy = 123

SITES OF INTEREST

Free Trees and Plants

Thousands of workers with disabilities need jobs. Freetreesandplants.com locates unsold plants, has them packaged by these disabled workers. You get the plants for free (excl P + P), you help stop a huge waste of plants being binned and workers with disabilities get jobs. Everyone wins!

SwapaSkill

Swapaskill is an on-line community enabling users to register their skills or expertise and meet people who have the skills they need. Their aim is to bring back community spirit, help save the environment and create a community where people are richer and happier in the widest sense.

CHARITY GAMES

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

Letters Hunter

Type the falling letters or numbers or combo of letters / numbers (your choice) to earn points. They fall fast and quick. The more you play, the more difference you'll make!

10 SECOND FREE DONATION

Click the link below to take you to a webpage that generates cash donations to programs that feed chimps orphaned due to poaching and habitat loss - all at no cost to you. Just click on the blue 'Donate' button in the Save Chimps for Free box.