Something unexpectedly amazing happened when I took a bus from Zimbabwe to Zambia last month. I found a rental on AirBnB that was hosted by a young man who uses all of the earnings to fund a school. He built this school in a small village just outside of Livingstone, Zambia. This is the place where 115 children, many of whom are orphans, come to not only get an education, but even more important, they come everyday to get a good meal.
It cost me $15 a night for a small room with bed that I'm pretty sure had bed bugs, no air conditioning and the shower consisted of me dumping a bucket of cold water on my head, but it was so worth it. I stayed there for 4 nights and was able to visit the kids at the school. They were incredibly happy and curious, I wanted to hug them all and take them home with me. Since sadly this is not a reality, I realized that I could manage to give some of them a day they'd never forget.
You see, these children live in a village where their families farm corn. There are only 4 months in the wet season and once they are done harvesting the crops there is pretty much no activity happening in the village. These children have never left the small village and I wanted to change that.
I decided to arrange for a local safari trip to a small park for Ivor, Henry- a man who volunteers at the school, my friend, myself and 8 children. I would've loved to take all of the children but Ivor's van can't hold over 100 children.
I'm hoping that this post will gain enough success for Ivor to be able to afford to bring all of the children to that park for a safari they all deserve to experience. In addition to funding one of his many projects, like finishing the well so they will have fresh water available to grow vegetables year round.
Here's a video that I put together of the experience!
I hope you can see how much they deserve your help, I've made a bitcoin wallet for Ivor to which you all can make donations. This way he can continue to improve the lives of the children, youth and women in the village.
Use this QR code and public address to make donations for Ivor's orphanage and school:
1NAUqC18vtEGavZHKkj4yCQ6X7fVB6LNP6
Thank you for your support!
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Thank you very much, they appreciate it!!
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https://www.facebook.com/MilanguSchool/ We have shared your amazing blog on our fb page, hope you don't mind! thank you for all your help :)
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https://blockchain.info/de/tx/c5c7a6c164cd9a14ec58c5b6853ce2b31cd5fb587d52e273dfc48ced849b8236
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If there would be a possibility to donate SBD or STEEM i would contribute more!
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bless your soul!
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Hey @ heiditravels hope all is well. I see you're accepting BTC donations... Maybe consider SBD / STEEM as well?
If you needed a hand setting up a website to take SBD / STEEM donations I'll likely have some time later to give you a hand. Let me know. :)
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Thanks @klye! @heiditravels in case you missed it, since you've been traveling, @klye lead the campaign to get coinpayments.net a well-known internet payment processor to be able to accept SBD & Steem. https://steemit.com/steem/@klye/coinpayments-net-steem-steem-dollar-integration-success
And he's running a Steemit witness node :)
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I'm also building streemit.online :D
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Very cool I'll check this out right now!
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Fresh water wells are VERY important for villages in Africa. There is such a great need for them. After reading the book A Long To Water, which is based on a true story, I realized just how important they are. Due to this book, I later learned about Water for South Sudan which was started by the protagonist of the book later in his life. Africa needs our help.
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great @heiditravels 8]
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Wow, good stuff. I posted this on reddit.com/r/BitcoinChristian. It's hard to find philanthropy+bitcoin articles.
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Wow thank you!
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Fantastic, great to use your travels to promote local initiatives like this one! Access to quality well water / healthy agriculture is so important. Upvoted!
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Thank you!
Be sure to check out the bitcoin wallet as well :)
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Awesome story @heiditravels, thanks for sharing and helping out those less fortunate than us! :)
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The help is there truth ?
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You are such an inspiration Heidi. Love every one of your posts.
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beautiful what you do, I just wrote a post memo to a person who alos helped poor people, thanks for sharing these images and the existence of all, congratulations
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Good one Heidi.
You might consider setting up a Crowdrise account. Then you can post causes you like to support and folks can donate if they want. Those you work with can set up their own accounts and promote your causes (theirs) or they can set up their own and you can promote theirs. Whoever sets up the fundraiser can have the funds deposited to their account regularly (Might be US only, I'm not sure). And you can include crypto addresses in the listing for those who want to donate accordingly.
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