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Sister, Can You Spare a Dollar? BlogHers Act!

Posted by Karoli in Blogging April 7th, 2008

Photo: Grandmother and granddaughter, by Curra &amp;amp; Enrique

BlogHers Act! launched an initiative that’s near and dear to my heart today. Being fortunate enough to have a relative in the foreign service who lived in many beautiful, yet poverty-stricken areas , I learned about Afghanistan, Tibet, Nepal, Bangladesh, Surabaya, India and Thailand, about the people, the art, the textiles, and the poverty endemic in these places. I’ve even been lucky enough to meet some people from those areas.

Yet, even with all of the wonder of those countries, there has been what feels like an everlasting dissonant chord: The heavy toll of poverty on the women and children’s health, happiness and well-being.

BlogHers Act! has begun a campaign in partnership with GlobalGiving.org to help improve the health and lives of women and children in countries like Darfur, Nepal, Afghanistan, South Africa, and Burkina Faso.

I’d like to ask you to spend a couple of minutes reading their post, and consider giving a small donation (as small as $10) to help women in these countries have a chance at a healthier and happier life.

There’s a little widget on my sidebar that you can use to go directly to the donation page, but if you’re unable to donate, will you please blog about it and link back to the BlogHer post? Let’s see how many lives we can save between now and Mother’s Day.

Thank you.

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Queenofspain,Erin Kotecki Vest 8 months ago 1 point
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Thanks so much. Really.

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Lisa Stone 7 months ago 1 point
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You are such a poet Karoli:

Yet, even with all of the wonder of those countries, there has been what feels like an everlasting dissonant chord: The heavy toll of poverty on the women and children’s health, happiness and well-being.

The first time I saw real poverty, I lived in Georgia. The second time, I lived in Montana. The third time, Cambodia.

I'm inspired by BlogHers Act because even though I do what I can state-side, it never feels like enough. Never ever. And your headline, "Sister, can you spare a dime?" does a great job of capturing that urge I think so many of us have to make a difference, to save at least one woman's life in a place so remote, so far away, that sometimes it seems only a wish and a prayer (if one is the praying type) could make a difference.

But with BlogHers Act, we are trying to move an entire sprawling community into action. I'm really grateful that you care about this, as someone who has enjoyed your comments on BlogHer.com and here for so long. And thanks to GlobalGiving.com, we actually know that our pennies and dollars will be **on the ground working hard for some woman and her family within 60 days**.

And that is a gift indeed. Thanks for banging the drum... :)

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