Friday, May 18, 2007

Give Water
Ripple.org is one of the coolest websites I have ever found. When you click the button to give water (on the site you can give food and more) you will be shown an ad. The company that provides this ad pays a certain amount of money per click to that page. ALL this money is donated toward your chosen cause.
From the site:
"Over an indvidual’s lifespan of fifty years (conservative estimate based on World Bank statistics) the average cost to provide water per day is per day $0.0016. For 1c (the lowest amount raised per click) this equates to 6.8 days access to clean water and sanitation.

"$25 will cover the cost of opening up a full 7 years of primary school education for a child at one of the schools built by Oaktree and its partners in East Timor. This equates to $3.55 for one year of primary education for a child and 1c for 2 days of primary education (the school year is 35 weeks)."