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photo by Oso Sopheap blogs at ifocus with the tagline ???three This was a trip to bring urban young people to experience life in a rural area and to deliver school supplies for children who live in the province and are very poor. I can talk about my volunteer efforts to help poor children in the remote province.
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Pearl Children Care Center I discovered Camera Rwanda's beautiful photo stream when I wrote about it on blogher last January. Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0 just posted an interview with her entitled " Camera Rwands: Storytelling using Flickr."
Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. You don't necessarily see women keynote at technology conferences (well accept for women focused technology conferences like blogher ), but Geoff was trying hard ensure a gender balanced program and succeeded. George Brett who took some great photos of conference.
Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos. That's a photo I took this summer of a child at the Sharing Foundation 's Roteang Orphanage. Nast who writes a placeblog called BlogWindsor and Femilicious at BlogHer this summer. In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest ! I meet Candace N.
Winners of the Creative Commons Photo Contest, 2006. I'm working on a piece for the BlogHer Holiday Guide about encouraging children to contribute causes and charities. In our family, I involve my kids in various fundraising activities - from Cambodia to Creative Commons.
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DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. So, maybe they will make it easier for people who want to support specific schools and children. Virginia Debolt who covers the technology beat at BlogHer has a great roundup of the reactions. Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. I blogged it and was initially very excited!
Nancy live blogged Linda Stone's presentation and flickred lots of photos ) I think Annette's points on improving the conference dialogue between ideamakers and toolmakers is something that might be useful at the NTC Conference hosted by N-TEN. Photo Credit: on Flickr by Beth Kanter
Fund for UNICEF , $15/month can provide, "20 packets of high energy biscuits specially developed for malnourished children." Cross-posted from BlogHer. Photo of Sunflower by me. Even a small financial gift can make a big difference. For example, according to the U.S. Below are 10 low-cost ways to give.
Some blogs that I read, and don't usually get to write about here, are food blogs, and photoblogs, which are often the same thing since food bloggers use lots of photos in their posts. They post photos of cupcakes from cupcake bakeries all over the world, and from readers who submit photos of their own creations.
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