One Day on Earth by One Day on Earth

One Day on Earth creates a picture of humanity by recording a 24-hour period throughout every country in the world. We explore a greater diversity of perspectives than ever seen before on screen. We follow characters and events that evolve throughout the day, interspersed with expansive global montages that explore the progression of life from birth, to death, to birth again. In the end, despite unprecedented challenges and tragedies throughout the world, we are reminded that every day we are alive there is hope and a choice to see a better future together.

You can help finish the project here.

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François Amoretti - Cafe Sale.Tsunami

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake hit Japan.
One of the four largest earthquakes in history.

Artists from the community, joined by comic book writers and illustrators from all around the world rallied around us, Jean-David Morvan and Sylvain Runberg to form the Tsunami initiative.

We want to collect a maximum of quality drawings in order to hold a fund-raising auction on April 30th at Galerie Arludik in Paris. All the money we’ll raise will go to the earthquake’s victims. The auction will be followed by an exhibition and a book due out September 8, whose benefits will be offered to an organisation for people affected by the disaster.

Feel free to spread the word!

How To Help Japan: Earthquake Relief Options →

Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund (GlobalGiving) →

(Source: jacquesofalltrades, via honeymanifesto)

tumblr: water →

tumblrwater:

The world is a mess.

People are sick. Starving. Poor. Destitute. Every day I read or hear about it in the news. There are so many people that need help. There are so many needs, so many good causes.

I’ve had it pretty good in life. I don’t want to sit by and just do nothing, so I picked one cause I think everyone can agree on. I’m working to give people something they absolutely cannot do without - the most basic of health needs.

I’m working to give people clean drinking water.

More than a billion people don’t have access to safe drinking water. I don’t mean that their pipes don’t work; I mean that they have to walk hours each day to collect dirty water from stagnant ponds and muddy rivers. And the crazy thing is that for so many people, like for us here, clean water runs in lakes under their homes and village. But they don’t have the drilling equipment or the money to reach it.

Just $5,000 builds a well to serve a community of 250 people. My goal is to raise $10,000 towards two wells in the next three months.

There’s a lot of need in the world. I’m starting here. Will you join me?

Join with us, tumblrs..let’s fund two wells..enough water for 500 people…forever.

If hitting the radar twice in a couple of months can’t help spreading the word around, then I don’t know what it’s good for.

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KOMAZA: Fighting Poverty Through “Microforestry”

KOMAZA, Africa’s first nonprofit forestry company, is an inspired social enterprise that addresses this correlation through “microforestry” — small tree farms that offer profoundly lifechanging sustainable economic opportunities for farmers.

KOMAZA (Swahili for “promote development” or “encourage growth.”) spends less than $1 to plant a tree, and each tree returns at least $20 to the family. That’s over $6,000 from half an acre — you can imagine the powerful impact this income can have on people many of whom live on under $1.25 a day.

You can donate here.

Gulf Charity Poster by The Heads of State

You can buy it here, they’re donating half the price to Oceana.

Help Haiti - Drop the debt →

newfilosofee:

Dear Finance Ministers, IMF, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and bilateral creditors,

As Haiti rebuilds from this disaster, please work to secure the immediate cancellation of Haiti’s $890 million debt and ensure that any emergency earthquake assistance is provided in the forms of grants, not debt-incurring loans.

newfilosofee:

Children are shivering in sub-zero temperatures. Without protection from the elements, they are at risk of illness and infection. The poorest of the poor have only tattered rags, or even no clothes to wear at all. You can help deliver urgently needed clothing to protect these children from the deadly elements.

Thanks to donations of more than $53 million in new clothes and shoes, your gift multiplies 15 times its value to keep children warm. Please give now to protect these children with warm coats, sweaters, scarves, pants, shoes, socks, boots, and more.

”If I am warm, I am happy and I have peace … I am very grateful to World Vision for this jacket,” says Enkhtor, a boy in Mongolia. Without the jacket, he was unable to attend school, prepare firewood for the family, or collect water from the well. Can you help other children like Enkhtor?

Any gift you send today will multiply 15 times in impact to deliver new pants, sturdy shoes, protective jackets, and more to children in 22 countries around the world. Please give from your heart today.

http://www.worldvision.org/

iheartmyart:

Happy Holidays from Google!, $20 million given to charities for all of us! Awesome.

Albino by Johan Bävman

[In April of 2008 two armed men broke in to nine-year-old Josef Emanuel’s bedroom. They cut off his younger sister’s legs and left her to bleed to death. She became one of nearly 30 albinos in Tanzania who’ve been killed since January 2008 in a spate of targeted killings.

Already, before the recent wave of murders, they were an exposed and vulnerable group in one of the world’s poorest countries. In addition to discrimination, and now murder, the albino population face unique medical issues. Serious eye problems often lead to a lack of education among albino people.

They then are frequently forced to take low-wage jobs under the equatorial sun and a lack of knowledge about skin cancer kills many of them.

In the midst of tragedy there are also found laughter and a spirit of hope.
The albino people in Tanzania are organizing and refusing to let the murderers continue unnoticed. They are demanding action from the government and the government has begun to take notice.]

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caraobrien:

Click the image to see a larger image and read what this ad from Amnesty International says. Full text:

“My camp is my home, and the men here are part of my family. I don’t want to let them die by the hands of militiamen. So I made a decision in order to keep the men out of danger, I get the firewood myself. That is my gift for them; to face rape every day.”

Learn more about the atrocities women face in Darfur:

Stop Rape Now: UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict

Darfur— Rape as a weapon of war: sexual violence and its consequences

Darfur: No Redress for Rape

Amnesty International: Violence Against Women

Why Foreign Aid Is Hurting Africa →

(via magyk-girl)