Kerblam! by Christopher

Friday, December 8
Donate to the Darfur Wall Project and get your name in lights for $1

I'm not kidding, in fact I'm dead serious. If you donate $1 (or more), you can pick a number from the Darfur Wall (see darfurwall.org) and you can put your name and location to it if you so desire. Your donation goes to charities helping those who are suffering as a result of the Sudan crisis, where over 400,000 have been persecuted or killed as a result of the fighting and violence between the Janjaweed militia and the Sudanese government.

For more information on who the site supports (i.e., who they give all the proceeds from the donations to), and for more information about the people behind the site, and the charities themselves, check the web site (the link above will take you straight to the /about page).

The cool thing is, if you donate more than $1, for every extra dollar you donate you get another random number with your name and location on it. I donated in total $7, and lit up 131085 (my birthday!) and 303303, because I thought it looked nice.

You can donate (painlessly) by PayPal, by check (which costs them less in admin fees, so they can donate all of the proceeds to the charities receiving the monies from the site (PayPal always takes a cut on any transaction) or via credit card.

I lit 131085 (my birthday!) - The Darfur Wall Foundation - light up a number for $1 to show your support

I also lit 303303 - The Darfur Wall Foundation - light up a number for $1 to show your support

(My donations also lit up five other random numbers)

Go do it. It's painless, it's for a good cause, and you get your name up on the web for that warm and fuzzy feeling factor. Everyone's a winner baby, that's the truth.

Dragged out of Christopher's memory and pasted
into his blog at 12/08/2006 07:35:00 PM. Roughly.
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