Some Simple Ways to See Those Around You

Dear Dani,

I love your idea so much and I have been back to your blog so many times to watch your video. I think you did such a fantastic job. The music and your voice ....it really moved me.

I have been thinking of the $2 question since I woke up this morning and found your email here. It is more difficult than I thought it would be.

I have a few things to suggest:

- Donating $2 in collection tins. People or organisations are always collecting someplace, somewhere.

- When you are at a shopping mall leave $2 on a children’s ride.

- Leave your $2 in phone booths.

- Buy a frazzled mum a cup of coffee at a shopping mall.

- Leave your $2 at a parking meter or feed one that is about to run out.

- Being crafty, I can make a painting or a small embroidery for $2.

- Buy handmade soap from markets and leave at shelters.

- Buy a croissant, a pie or a donut and give to a homeless and hungry person.

- Leave your $2 at a bus stop or train station.

- In Australia there is a magazine made by men who live in shelters and every Thursday they walk the streets selling them. They are $2.

- Buy bread rolls or a loaf of bread with your $2 and donate the bread at a soup kitchen.

I will keep thinking Dani. J I hope those few ideas are what you are looking for.

Have a lovely week.

Toni

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Planting Peace

how are you? thanks for wanting to help charities all over! our charity can deworm a little over 100 kids for 2 dollars. to learn more about our deworming project please visit www.plantimgpeace.org. thanks again and look forward to hearing from you.

may peace be your step Aaron

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Africa Bridge

Hi Danielle,

This is a great idea – I think you’re doing something with a lot of potential for an impactful message. Africa Bridge works in very poor communities in SW Tanzania, a very rural area without a great deal of economic viability or help from the outside community. Two dollars means quite a lot here – it represents how little they live on per day (less than one dollar) and also represents a difference between having food for the week or not. For two dollars, one orphan can attend school for one month (she needs $25 a year to pay for books, a uniform, and shoes – without them there is no school). The children we work with – the most vulnerable children and orphans – all want education more than anything else. For them, it is their ticket to a chance at reaching adulthood and earning living. So, I would say for us that what $2 means is a child’s chance to go to school for an entire month.

I’ll try to think of some other things.

Sandra

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Sandra Clark

Development Coordinator

(503)699-6162

www.africabridge.org

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