If we were all to redirect a mere 5% of the billions of dollars that we already spend each year on gifts, there would be enough to eliminate extreme poverty in about 15 years.
UEnd:Poverty. Gift different.
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Friday Photo
Kamla Rani, a tiger widow living in Burigoalini is making paper packet for marketing. This business contribute her to maintain her family.
Visit the project page here: http://www.uend.org/dt/projects/82
(This was also our POTW)
POTW: Ensuring Livelihood Security For Widows
Project Snapshot
- Lives affected: 1750
- Project cost: $10,000
- Dollars raised: $893
- Dollars needed: $9,107
Here is a project that might pull at your heart-stings. In parts of Bangladesh, men make a living working in the mangrove forests of Sundarbans; something they’ve been doing for centuries. However, these parts are also the habitat of Royal Bengal Tigers, which presents a real danger to the men. Thousands of men have been killed over the years and leave their widows to fend for themselves. (watch this short YouTube video about the relationship between Tiger and worker)
In most cases, these widows are seen as bad luck, often blamed for their husband’s deaths. They also cannot marry again because of this labeling, are not welcome into their family’s homes, and chastised like this for the rest of their lives. Even the government wasn’t willing to help.
LEDARS, Bangladesh has stepped up to help these women by: setting up self-help and support groups for victims; lobbying against the government to improve human rights; teaching fishing techniques to improve food quality and boost commerce; training women to tailor clothes and create small businesses; setting up children’s learning centres and providing free education for victim’s children; handing out micro-finance loans to enable women to create businesses; and building better drinking water facilities and sanitation facilities.
This project needs your help.
Seriously, they are in need of $10,000 to fully fund this project. To date, they have raised only $893, leaving $9,107 left. We need to see this project raise more funds.
If you can, please help by:
1) Donating directly or by giving a gift card » HERE
2) Raising awareness of this cause by Tweeting it or sharing on your Facebook wall, this link: http://www.uend.org/dt/projects/82
3) Making this project your gift of choice for an upcoming birthday, wedding or special event (this can be a fun way to see major funding toward a project).
4) Joining U:Powered Membership for $5/month so we can continue to raise awareness and funds for projects like this.
LEDARS website: http://www.ledars.org/livelihood_security_program.php
