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Happy Mother’s Day to all of my family and friends!
I’ve been trying to compile a list of really simple and EASY ways YOU can help Japan via facebook, twitter, and other websites.
Help with Facebook.
Voskos Greek Yogurt will donate $1 for every ‘LIKE’ on this facebook status HERE (note: you have to first ‘like’ their main fan page before you can ‘like’ the status) *I liked it
Dog Bless You started out donating up to $1 for every page ‘LIKE’ and hit their goal! They’ve now received a grant PLUS their search and rescue dogs are now on the ground in Japan doing their wonderful job of searching for victims. Although now ‘liking’ the page won’t donate any more money (as far as I know), it’s still a wonderful page to follow and support. *I liked it
Explore.org is donating a $1 for every LIKE to their facebook page HERE *I liked it
Causes.com has a few quizzes and movies you can watch, each earning around .10 cents for relief . Choose ‘give money’ to donate actual money or choose ‘give time’ to take the quizzes/watch movies, etc. to have them donate money for your time. *I did it, but didn’t finish them all, will go back and do more.
CityVille,FrontierVille, FarmVille, etc. each have ways to purchase virtual goods in the games to help Japan
Other Ways To Help
The hello bar (which for some reason I can’t get the website to pop up yet, it could just be my browser or the site might be temporarily down) is a way to embed code into your blog/site to help Japan, more info HERE
Text To Donate: The American Red Cross has once again launched a texting campaign to raise money for relief efforts in the Pacific region. Last year, the Red Cross was able to raise over $20 million for Haiti relief through simple text donations.
If you would like to donate to the American Red Cross for Japan Earthquake Relief, just text REDCROSS to 90999. Each text will provide $10 towards the Red Cross’s humanitarian efforts.
itunes Open up your itunes by clicking HERE to donate through your itunes account.
Lady Gaga has created a ‘rubber bracelet’ (the type made popular by ‘Livestrong’) for Japan. MTV reports, “A bracelet that Lady GaGa designed to raise money for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami has raised over $250,000 in just 48 hours.” buy your own HERE. You can buy it for just $5.00 or choose your own price and add a donation on top of it. *I bought one.
Bands For Arms has a relief bracelet as well for $10.00, you can purchase it HERE (you’ll have to scroll down to find it, they offer several sizes as well so check the little drop down menu to make sure you pick the right size for you). Their website says, A portion from the sale price from this bracelet will be donated back to The Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund for Japan
http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/japan-earthquake-tsunami-relief/ *I bought one.
More Information:
Twitter published a blog post detailing ways you can help with the relief efforts. Not only have they updated Japan’s mobile website with the latest information on the disaster, but they have also published a list of hashtags to tweet and/or follow related to the crisis. You can read the full blog post HERE (your internet browser should automatically ask you to translate the page into english for you, if not a website like babelfish should be able to do it for you)
News Links:
NHK – NHK World English
