A Dollar A Day special appeal - help send Angeline and Milky to sch...

I just remembered one of the things that made Steem great for me back in the day.

The simple ability to help make people's lives better.

Although I have learnt a lot on Steem, developed new skills, spoken with many fascinating people, the one big stand out for my time on Steem has been my work with A Dollar A Day.

Raising over US$ 5000 in less than a year, and with that money helping dozens and dozens of people around the world encapsulated the very essence of what I thought Steem represented. A new take on the world.

Because of the time demands of the SOS Forums and the Steem Daily News, and because of the dramatically reduced value of STEEM, I put A Dollar A Day into a state of semi-hibernation for the last few months.

I had hoped there would be a recovery to increase the value of the donations to the recipients but that hasn't happened. I have therefore been giving out larger one-off donations to projects and causes as they came up.

Most recently these have included larger donations to Hive account@papilloncharity for computers to a school in South Africa, and to Hive account@schoolforsdg4 towards the running of their slum school in Bangladesh.

These donations brought our remaining funds down to around 200 SBD. I am very grateful to various kind folk on Steem who have continued to send donations including most recently Hive account@steevc, Hive account@marblely, Hive account@quochuy and Hive account@drakos. And there was still some remaining from the large donation from Hive account@delishtreats from a few months back.

Random Kindness Education Program

Today I came across the Random Kindness Education Program being run by Hive account@meetmysuperego in the Philippines.

Random Kindness Education Program aims to assist underprivileged children or youth in their financial needs to be able to continue their education. This is a type of need-based scholarship that qualifies students to get a monthly grant based on their economic status.

https://steemit.com/philippines/@randomkindness/random-kindness-education-program

The first beneficiaries of the project are 14 year old Angeline and her 12 year old brother Milky.

They come from the Mamanwa tribe, a group of indigenous people living in Barangay Kagbana Burauen, Leyte.

The family are subsistence farmers and they live a long way from the nearest market town. They cannot afford education for their children.

Hive account@meetmysuperego has stepped in to help them through her Random Kindness project.

Angeline and Milky have this week started at Burauen Comprehensive National Highschool.

They have found a room to rent and Hive account@meetmysuperego is covering the $14 per month cost for that. She is now looking to raise US$40 per month to cover the school costs for Angeline and Milky.

I have just sent over an initial donation of 39 SBD from the remaining funds of A Dollar A Day to help with the initial school costs.

I will be sending more from Hive account@adollaraday shortly.

If you would like to support Angeline and Milky you can send donations direct to the Hive account@randomkindness account.

If you prefer you can send to the Hive account@adollaraday account and I will endeavour to bundle them up to reach the $40 needed each month.

Thank you.

[ A Dollar A Day logo by Hive account@hungryhustle // other images from Hive account@meetmysuperego ]

A Dollar A Day special appeal - help send Angeline and Milky to school

I just remembered one of the things that made Steem great for me back in the day.

The simple ability to help make people's lives better.

Although I have learnt a lot on Steem, developed new skills, spoken with many fascinating people, the one big stand out for my time on Steem has been my work with A Dollar A Day.

Raising over US$ 5000 in less than a year, and with that money helping dozens and dozens of people around the world encapsulated the very essence of what I thought Steem represented. A new take on the world.

Random Kindness Education Program