Yesterday I came across the posts again of my Steemit friend @bigdude on what is happening at the moment in Venezuela.

In this post about what is currently happening in Venezuela @bigdude describes how just one simple cabbage in the supermarket will cost about $0.63. This sounds like a reasonable price until you read further and see that the average Venezuelan worker earns about $1.24 monthly

I was deeply shocked again.

Even though we all know hyperinflation is causing serious issues at the moment in Venezuela, when you see it written out like this, it is just unbelievable. I also asked my #whaleshares Discord buddy @steamdan on his situation there, and he also confirms this is just the current state of reality there.

Luckily we as a community can do something!

@bigdude is working on gathering SBD for the kids there to buy new shoes. As you can imagine with these kind of prices for groceries, is that buying shoes for the little ones is last on the priority list. But not having decent shoes can mess up childrens feet forever and who knows what that will do to their chances for a decent job in the future.

Well, they have made a tremendous effort already with buying 59 pairs of shoes for the kids payed with our upvotes. Isnt that fantastic??? 59 parents who will not have to worry about buying their kids shoes, but can focus on the normal groceries.

Okay, time to do something

@bigdudes idea is to get 100 pairs of shoes to the kids so that is 41 pairs to go still. @pennsif project A dollar a day charity is getting their own steemit account called @adollaraday and they are also making constant donations to @bigdude project. Support this project people!

Immediate result from a dollar a day

So I was thinking to myself and talking to @soyrosa on the #alldutch Discord about it, let me just buy some shoes here for them, and send them out. And 5 minutes later I rejected this thought immediately for these reasons.

• If I buy the shoes here cheap, they will most likely be from a mass producer using childrens labour. Not okay
• If I try to send a box to Venezuela, it might get intercepted by customs and that will be a loss (maybe even customs will sell them theirselves for all I know) Not okay
• If @bigdude can buy the shoes there locally, also that shoesalesman will benefit from this.

Conclusion, three winning reasons to use the blockchain for this

I find it so cool what @bigdude is trying to achieve with his Project Dudeland. They have also already bought schoolsupplies with SBD, gave food to the soupkitchen with SBD and fixed up a school kitchen with SBD. This is heartwarming. As he says himself:

MY COMMITMENT TO ALL OF YOU

We have delivered 59 pairs of New Shoes and 41 more are missing to reach the goal, it will be the second fundraiser to fulfill this ambitious project of donating 100 pairs of New shoes.
For the execution of this project the approximate amount of 80 SBD or 70 STEEM is required, that is 2.5 SBD / STEEM for each shoe, this is subject to change, since in my country , the price of things increase every day.

All this is subject to Change, remember that in Venezuela the value of the products increases every day.

For the peace of mind of those who wish to confirm the expenses of the donation, they may request said invoices, if they so wish.

So again guys,

Let you heart speak! Every cent of upvote will get a kid closer to some new shoes. I will set an example by also sending some liquid SBD to @bigdude account

I know its just 1.5 SBD but that is all my wallet has at the moment, but all little bits add up to something big!

But you dont have to SEND SBD. You can just give this post an upvote or a resteem and I will send all SBD generated by this post to @bigdude. That is what is so beautiful about Steemit.

It will not cost you anything but your vote.

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