I hope some good comes out of this appeal for one rupee a day for Project Why. A few popular blogs had linked to the post as well (thanks Amit, Uma, Abi, desipundit); more people have seen Anouradha’s modest appeal, will they also act on it?
No one has responded with ideas on what we can do further with blogs for fund-raising for such causes. So here is my own idea: the next time there is a blogger’s meet in any city, can each of the bloggers put aside for a good cause the money they have spent on their coffee there. If each of us spends 50 rupees on coffee there and puts aside 50 rupees, at the end of the blogger’s meet, we have not just ten (or twenty or more) happy bloggers who have their next post ready, but a bunch of happy children – who possibly have eaten a meal or receive medical tretment with the money.
I am not personally invovled in Project Why (or any such project) yet – regrets. But as a blogger, I believe in the power of many. I can make a beginning this way… I also know that bloggers in Bangalore have been thinking about doing something together this way.
What do you think?
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May be very late in pointing out this – but I recently came across the world community grid project. In the debate of leaving computer on v/s switching it off after each use, I side with the former. The project is an effort to use your computer in its idle time. This is from the site – World Community Grid’s mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Our work is built on the belief that technological innovation combined with visionary scientific research and large-scale volunteerism can change our world for the better. Our success depends on individuals – like you – collectively contributing their unused computer time to this not-for-profit endeavor.
They have a new fight AIDS @home project for which I am going to start donating my computer time. Please sign up for that right now. (And imagine having this on your CV, ‘helped find cure for AIDS). Thanks!