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TweetsGiving: Show Your Gratitude With Epic Change
There's just one week before TweetsGiving! Next week, participants will share what they are grateful for through Twitter and other online media and attend gratitude parties around the world. People donate to a shared cause in honor of that for which they are most grateful Funds raised will go to support the work of Mama Lucy Kampton (@MamaLucy), a ChangeMaker who has transformed her community in Arusha, Tanzania through her school Shepherd's Junior.
Learn more and show your gratitude!
Scheduled for November 24 26, 2009, the 48-hour event created by Epic Change will encourage participants to express their thanks using online tools and at live events. In honor of the people and things that make them grateful, guests will be invited to give to a common cause at events held across the globe.
Why TweetsGiving?
Last year, funds from TweetsGiving helped build a classroom in Tanzania. This year, the Epic Change team are working on building a technology lab there. Earlier this month, we interviewed Avi Kaplan from Epic Change, and asked him what they were up to in Africa:
What are you up to right now in Africa?
We just spent three weeks at Shepherd's Junior near Arusha, Tanzania setting up a technology lab and wireless internet at the school. Together with our fabulous volunteers Melissa & AJ Leon of theLacProject, we taught the students and teachers about computers and social media. The students of Class Five at the school are now on Twitter and Tumblr and you can follow them all by clicking their pictures in this blog post. The internet has opened up the world for these students and their teachers are increasingly using the web in their curriculum.
For more details from our recent work here, including video, photos and more in-depth coverage of all about the work we've been up to in Tanzania on the "I <3 Epic Change" Blog created by theLacProject and in a recent article in the Huffington Post.
(Read the rest of the interview here.)
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- Attend a gratitude party
- Spread gratitude on the web
- Host a gratitude party
- Join the TweetsGiving Community
- Amy Sample Ward's blog
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Great
I hope that word of this event and goings on will spread throughout the internet quickly so that more and more people can participate. What a wonderful idea and I am sure that there is going to be much to be thankful for. casino online