Unique charity opportunity/challenge
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the initial idea was from my sins who saw the Hati disaster and wanted a way to help - there idea was -
"Dad you know how you build websites and they make money for people - could we build something to help these children - who now have nothing?"
we sat down and thought of a way to facilitat where we can actually make a real difference - so the idea is to collect the donations of pennies and pounds once there are a million members - so in theory collecting £1 million every other month.
If the process takes off and people commit to the idea then a UK charity would be set up following the UK Charity Commision guidelines and be a legal entity - but the idea in principle is that each person donates £6.06 each year (6 months of pennies and 6 months of pounds) so a very insignificant amount individually but as a group a massive difference.
My boys expressed the wish to help any cause - non political or religious who needed it - examples would have been - the tsunami - new orleans - obviously haiti - to name a few.
I thought that for two boys of 8 and 11 its a pretty amazing thing to think about from watching the news - all i've done is start the ball rolling to try to facilitate this idea.
But with facebook having 250 million + active users it seemed the easiest way to reach a mass audience quickly - if the uk can get 300,000 users to knock simon cowell of number 1 then you would hope they could make something quite unique and charitable happen.
thanks for the responses though :)