SO #hivecommunities There are so many Interesting, fun, engaging, enlightening, empowering and fun, did I say FUN communities within the Hive that to choose just a few does not do them all justice, however I am going to choose my first favourite community as the CHARITY Community!
Created by @AchimMertens just a few months ago, who also created the Chary coin which can be used in any other community if the person is blogging about a charity, the Charity community now has a handful of determined people who are in the planning stages and regularly working on ideas and proposals to build this community up to use the Hive ecosystem to it's fullest potential- because the Hive ecosystem does have the potential to become the best platform for charities and those of us that support them to become a huge success where everyone benefits.
Although it may only be small in numbers at the moment, we already have some big personalities working in here- those that are passionate about helping charities raise awareness of the issues surrounding the needs of their services and dedicated to growing this community both within the Hive and externally to garner more support for and to help raise funding for the smaller charities that need the help. @BAsilMarples, @ChocolateScorpi ,
Within this Charity community, we already have a range of smaller charities that use our services to help promote them by rehiving- or reblogging their blogs, as well as our curation upvotes which give them rewards that they can cash out to use to purchase whatever they need.
This is the living whitepaper as drafted by AchimMertens here @achimmertens/the-chary-whitepaper
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I would like to introduce you to them now.
Every year charity: water organises September Campaign to help fundraise towards a specific project. This year all the donations during the month of September will go into bringing clean water to 20,000 people in Mali, West Africa below the Sahara Desert
And you can read more about how this works here @oleg326756/charity-water-september-fundraising-campaign
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Then we have the HIVE UA CHARITY group who are made up of Project initiator 
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And then I'd like to introduce you to 
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And I'd also like to introduce you to another worthy contest for charity too on the #Hive we have 
A brief summary!
This is an exciting new concept that we have titled, “The Weekly Hive Charity Giveaway”, it will work on a trusted and verifiable numbers system.
Each donation of 1 HBD will be automatically assigned a number every week, numbers will be drawn and prizes will be awarded. It's similar to a lucky draw.
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in the #HiveBlockchain tonight and his name is 
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And then there are some offchain charities that SHOULD be on here because of the support that we would be able to offer them to help them achieve what they need for their charities to operate, so I'd like to introduce to just a handful of them that I want to be able to help on the HiveBlockchain platform and they are...
So please #MeetMyHero here https://www.soidog.org/content/john-and-gills-story and you can see my interview with them at #SoiDogs in #Phuket back in 2014 here. https://www.chocolatescorpion.com/animal-volunteers-abroad
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So tonight, I would like you to #MeetMyhero- an extraordinary woman by the name of #TraceySawyer, whom I met years ago as I was interviewing her about her completely upending her life to move from Melbourne to Longido in Tanzania after a chance meeting and then creating a project to help the Masai get clean drinking water to the village wells.
Tracey helps advocate, educate and empower the women and children- and even the men of all of the surrounding villages and with her friends over there, has since made these great achievements.
12,500 Masai have access to clean drinking water
37 subvillages in Masai land in Tanzania have been trained in permaculture techniques
700 Masai women and men have learnt how to grow their own food for the first time and are eating and selling their home grown produce
584 school students from four primary and secondary schools have been trained and are now growing, harvesting and eating the produce from their Testigo school gardens
6 villages now have household dams for rainwater collection
100 Masai women and men are now engaged in rural chicken breeding
100 Masai women and men have learned Swahili and English through our adult school
10 Masai women are making and selling beaded jewellery for export to the US
So without further ado, here she in with her Masai family here https://testigoafrica.org
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And another one of my favourite charities is the IAPF- the International Anti Poaching foundation created by #DamianMander who is an Iraq war veteran who served as a Naval clearance diver and special operations sniper for the Australian Defense Force. In 2009 while travelling through Africa, he was inspired by the work of rangers and the plight of wildlife. Liquidating his life savings, the International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF) was established to be the last line of defence for nature. Over the past decade the IAPF has scaled to train and support rangers which now help protect over 4 million hectares of African wilderness. https://www.iapf.org/gallery and https://www.iapf.org/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ongoing_homepage_link and https://twitter.com/IAPF
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This is NOT one of the dwindling number of African Elephants or Rhinos that Damian and his park rangers protect against the poachers, but instead my photo of a Thai Elephant that I had the incredible opportunity to look after while I was volunteering at WFFT in Thailand https://www.wfft.org/ who is another extraordinary group of people rescuing so many injured and abused animals to care for them in their sensational sanctuary.
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So I'd like you to #MeetMyHero- or heroes in this case and that is the The Gibbon Rehabilitation Project https://www.gibbonproject.org/ in #Thailand and a few years ago I had the absolute pleasure and honour of meeting and interviewing one if it's many passionate and dedicated volunteers, #Primateologist #PetraOsterberg, originally from #Finland and Lulu too.
You can check out their website here to meet the other amazing and determined volunteers to see why these #volunteers and the #donations that they need are so important to the protection, preservation, survival and rehabilitation of the #Gibbons in #Thailand, because In the last remaining rain forest of Phuket, Gibbons were poached to extinction some 40 years ago.
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So these are just a few examples of charities that the power of the HiveBlockChain has the potential of helping to raise the awareness of the issues that they are facing and the funds to help them combat those issues and this is why the Hive #Charity Community is my absolute personal favourite community on here because I have the power to help them by using the power of the Hive.
So thank you to 