Project of the Week: Relief Equipment for Casualties of “Sidr”
When on November 17 cyclone Sidr reached the Southeast coast of Bangaldesh, the massive waves not only destroyed coastal villages, but the ensuing winds devastated whole areas further inland as well. Around 2400 dead were to be mourned (the Bangladesh Daily Star even speaks about unofficial estimates of 10.-15.thousand), over 3 million people were affected [...]
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betterplace junior donates
What an unexpected success betterplace junior has been! Yesterday those of the group who spent the holidays in Berlin met to donate the earnings of the two christmas stalls to the five projects chosen before (not yet under the name of “betterplace junior” as the website will only support such groups technically sometime early next year) . Together with the [...]
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Send a cow! – charities’ ethical gifts
What do I give for Christmas? There are different ways of making people happy. Like sending a cow. Charities are becoming more and more innovative in promoting gifts with a sense (and a twist) to them. We at betterplace.org like the concept of giving someone the chance to give. That’s why we came up with [...]
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Tags: alertnet, betterplace.org, charity, christmas, ehtical gifts, gift voucher
betterplace junior’s christmas stall
Yesterday betterplace junior organised their christmas stall on Kollwitzplatz in Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg. It was a huge success. Not only did the juniors – Anton, Jakob and Philipp, Lotta, Albert, Lilian and Vico, Juli, Daniela and Rebecca and Julius – catch the attention of the visitors (amongst others by walking around and distributing free clementines [...]
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The Graffiti of the Philanthropy Class
The new home of the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington D.C. tells the tale of a new class of pilanthropists. As The New York Times in an amusing article writes: You enter through the Arlene and Robert Kogod Lobby. From there you may choose to ascend to the orchestra level by taking either the Morris [...]
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Why is Africa underdeveloped?
There are many theories trying to explain why the African continent is the global basket case. While the per capita income of the rest of the world in 2000 was US$ 8800, in Africa it was US$ 1800, nowhere else is life expectancy so low and illiteracy rates so high. And that although since the [...]
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Tags: africa, aid, development 2.0., slave trade, slavery, underdevelopment, witchcraft
See you soon, Nunni
For the first time I heard of Nunni a couple of years ago. Stephan was drowning in his work and our friend Nico said: “I know the perfect relief for you. You need Nunni.” In the same breath, however, she added: “Unfortunately you won’t get her, though, since she’s working for me.” There she was, [...]
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A The New York Times collection of new trends in philanthropy
Check out todays collection of new charities and social networks adopting causes in The New York Times. Obviously the christmas season has started and betterplace will have its gift vouchers out any day!
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