charity

Book Wish Foundation, a new nonprofit devoted to providing reading relief for people in crisis, announces a project to help Darfur refugees and neighboring villagers in eastern Chad. Donations are needed for library construction, reading glasses, secondary school textbooks, dictionaries, English language course books, and school supplies.

For each definition you get right, ten grains of rice are donated through United Nations to help ease world hunger. Doesn’t seem like a very meaningful donation, but maybe it helps. Hmm, why don’t they just donate it all at once and ease world hunger sooner?

A photo essay about John Wood, a former Microsoft employee, left the software giant in 1999 with a goal of building school libraries in Nepal. He is founder and CEO of Room to Read, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that taps wealthy donors across the globe to help build schools and libraries in developing countries.

How do you explain the unexplainable to a child?
100% of the profits from the book will go to a Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood program.