Pink for October
Misstuned has gone Pink for October in support of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Mari doesn’t know if there’s a better way to tie in her favorite color with raising awareness for a deadly disease that affects the lives of millions of women. If you’d like to learn more about it, read the Wikipedia page on breast cancer. Mari had never heard about the possible benefits and detriments to eating soy in relation to breast cancer.
Mari will pledge right now, that any sum over 100 dollars1 Mari makes this month2 will go to Susan G. Komen for the Cure through the Pink for October team.
Wish Mari some money-making luck! Mari may not be able to do much by herself, but it’s something, right?
Do you donate to charities?
Do you support any causes?
1 Mari has to pay her bills, ya know?
2 Excluding any money Mari makes on 15 October. That’s Blog Action Day! Any money Mari makes that day will go to an environmental charity of Mari’s choice. Hooray for saving the environment!
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2 October 2007, 15:36
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Mari went pink!
I donate to a few causes, namely cancer and animal related ones.
I have to say that I have never been tempted nor will I ever be tempted to help kids in poor third world countries and what not that you see plastered everywhere. It pisses me off that people will help out kids in other countries but they’ll look at the homeless, poor, and the abused kids here and turn their nose up at them. Why does the US have to help everyone else but not their own?
Lovely layout, for a great cause!
I don’t support any charities personally, but I always help out at school when we’re doing something for charity.
And I agree with Joana about the kids in third world countries - why should we help people we’ve never met before, and are never likely to meet, when there are people living a couple of streets away that need our help just as much?
Oh, and I also get annoyed with people who support animal charities before supporting human ones. Sure, animals are important, but surely a person is more so?
I am currently running a month-long blogging campaign on environment-related matters, which had begun on Sept 15th, and will conclude on Oct 15th in conjunction with Blog Action Day. And I’d like to invite you to participate in the campaign.
Do you have any tips or experience to share?
I make a small donation to Amnesty International every month and obviously always participate on those random money raising things.
I have to say that I can’t agree with the two commenters above me. With that logic, I shouldn’t care about the poor and needy kids in America because I don’t live there and somehow I doubt that you’d ever accept that sort of an attitude. We should take care of all the children in the world, not just the ones that are closest to us.
Yay for pink, Mari and supporting worthy causes! Yay in general!
I sponsor a poor child (monthly) via the Foster Parents Plan of Canada. I support my church, when I can. Throughout the year, I drop money for random charities, depending on need. I always give food to food banks, especially around Thanksgiving, Easter and Christmas time.
I support my friends… some of who can be deemed worthy charity cases, LOL. :p
@Joana
It bothers Mari sometimes to see worthy causes get trampled on just because another worthy cause has Bono backing it (or something). Sometimes. Sometimes Bono has more of a reason to want to back another cause.
@Evie
Oh, thank you!
Well, Mari happens to disagree with you there. Sometimes, spreading a little love to someone you’ve never met…is just what this awful world needs.
Charities shouldn’t have to fight for attention.
Humans are animals. Last time Mari checked, we had the same basic functions as a great ape…
@pelf
Oh, wish the news would have got here sooner! Mari loves blogathons/campaigns.
Mari fully intends to go on a 10 day spree of writing environmentally-geared articles starting tomorrow on this blog. It will be therapeutical to let Mari’s thoughts about why people need to care about the environment out of Mari’s head.
@Kaisa
Mari has to agree with Kaisa. You can’t pick and choose who is needy. You just have to give to everyone. It’s like saying Mari shouldn’t care about homeless people in California because, living in Pennsylvania, Mari may never meet them or come into contact with them.
@fruityoaty
Those always break Mari’s heart, but Mari’s just now being able to support causes with her own money, so Mari’s not had the chance to do that yet.
Mari’s always given spare change to the Salvation Army around Christmas and whenever they have their bell-ringing people out.
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