Though there are myriad ways to donate at banks and stores, below are ways to donate now<\/strong><\/em> and two way to help emerging economies and poorer nations long term:<\/p>\n via<\/strong> Bloggers without Borders<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a project\/mission<\/a> conceived by Metblogs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Sean Bonner<\/a> and launched ahead of schedule in response to the Asian tsunami earthquake. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bloggers without Borders is dedicated to raising awareness for charities and charitable events around the world. We use the tools and exposure of modern citizen journalism as a means to lend a hand in the solicitation of donations and outbound information management.<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jonas Luster posted yesterday<\/a> to answer some questions about the project.<\/p>\n via<\/strong> The Guardian<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Charity Christmas Appeal<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n ABOLISH THIRD WORLD DEBT<\/strong><\/p>\n The UK in the guise of Prime Minister, Tony Blair, assumes the Presidency of the G8 today, 1 January 2005 and it’s annual Summit will be taking place in Scotland from 6-8 July. Tony Blair’s is on record as saying “I really want to focus on the challenges of Africa and climate change during our Presidency”. Billions of people living in the world’s poorest countries are effectively imprisoned by debts that they nor their governments can ever repay. Year in, year out, those governments struggle to pay back millions of pounds and dollars with almost no chance of ever clearing their debts. The fact that these debts could be cancelled without impacting the world economy makes this state of affairs even more unfair and punitive. Debtlinks.org<\/strong><\/a> carries links to scores of projects and sites worldwide that are working towards the abolition of third world debt or simply check out \u00e2\u20ac\u0153third world debt<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on Google to make yourself better informed.<\/p>\n BANK WITH COMPASSION & CONSCIENCE Move your current & savings accounts, your pensions and your investment to a banking or financial organisation that has a provable track record in ethical investment and money management. In the UK, The Co-operative Bank<\/a> leads the way by providing competitive banking services whilst maintaining clear ethical policies<\/a>, promoting trade justice<\/a> and a whole host of other campaigns<\/a>.<\/p>\n Once again, I hope that 2005 provides each of you with what you hope for and, just as importantly, that as a global community we really focus on what people need<\/em>, rather than simply what we want<\/em>.<\/p>\n An earlier version of this post was posted to <\/em>london.metblogs.com<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>bloggers without borders<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wish each and every person visiting my blog a happy, healthy and peaceful 2005. That said, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not pretend that this is like any other New Year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day. In the last seven days, those usually quiet, restful days between Christmas and the New Year, 150,000 people fellow human beings have died with millions more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Dec\"](\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/dec.jpg\")
MAKE AN IMMEDIATE DONATION <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nvia<\/strong> amazon.co.uk<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s British Red Cross Disaster Relief page<\/a><\/p>\n
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