$28.33 for a Scholarship to a Northern Ugandan Child #kony20
If you haven’t seen the Stop Kony movie, take 30 minutes and do it. What the movie doesn’t focus on as much is that the organization also collects money for scholarships:
“With little access to higher education due to financial hardship, few Northern Ugandans have an opportunity to continue their education past primary school. Our scholarship program gives students a chance to attend secondary school and even University. Commit to giving future leaders the chance to rebuild the legacy that was lost in this war.”
<iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/37119711?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=d13030” width=”400” height=”225” frameborder=”0” webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/37119711”>KONY 2012</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/invisible”>INVISIBLE CHILDREN</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
Donate to Movement (Invisible Children)
And if you want to watch another moving story about the same conflict, watch Kassim the Dream, from 2008.
$28.33 for 28.33 Square Inches of Land in Detroit
Detroit. The aging industrial city has gotten too big for its residents and continues to face a crumbling infrastructure, a declining population and high unemployment.
via modeldmedia.
Jerry Pappendorf came up with this idea to sell space online to mirror in the real world. So when you buy an inch of land you invest in community projects and mini-grants like Georgia Street Garden, Detroit Lives! and Motor City Blight Busters.
$20.00 for One Ton of Ballast Stones
I heard this story on the radio this afternoon about a girl who ditched honors college and went to Kenya and started a nonprofit organization to affect change in one small town. The organization’s mission, in their own words:
“By paying for the schooling of the neediest students, SPBP can support them and cover the cost of books. By directing this new money to provide the infrastructure for the water system, we can also provide stability and basic infrastructure to the village, the local public school, and the surrounding area.”
Self portrait
lo, thistlebird!
All I really need to get by is some scrap metal and a hug.
My new Twitter background. Apologies for being such a weirdo.
I just discovered the work and life of Margaret Kilgallen. I like how she spoke about visual communication. She was captivated by “folk” art, did everything by hand, and perhaps most potently to me, snuck around train yards. In this vein, she did a series of hand-painted trainyard photos.
This clip from YouTube originally aired on the PBS show ART:21 | Place.
I was probably thinking of The Very Hungry Caterpillar when I made this.
