“These herder woman look like Masai tribeswomen. I support small business people in emerging nations by donating small amounts to Kiva.com. which is a micro lending organization. They loan like $100 or so to small businesses usually run by women, and then that allows them to make huge changes in their lives. They have a 95% repayment log. I urge you to go the site and look at the people you can help make a living directly. I chose my latest person, a cobbler in Burkina Faso, the poorest nation in the world, and he paid back my loan in less than a year. That is equivalent to double his yearly salary! This is the way I think and help globally.”<\/p>\n
And the original post for the GIVEAWAY was (thank you to all who participated):<\/strong><\/p>\n I recently picked up two of these handy “family calendars” with the intent of gifting one. Plus, I wanted to support the organization behind it. The One World Family Calendar\u00a0features beautiful photography of people from around the world, along with\u00a0space for daily schedules for\u00a0up to five people. It’s a beautiful calendar that will help you plan the rest of your family’s year.<\/p>\n This calendar comes from the New Internationalist: People, Ideas, and Action for Global Justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n With new technologies, the whole wide world is at our fingertips, and we can help those in other countries as well as our own by shopping with a global responsibility in mind. And if you don’t think you support buying things from overseas, take a closer look around … that melon\u00a0purchased in December probably came from\u00a0South America, and that cell phone\u00a0positively came from\u00a0the other side of the globe. And wait … before\u00a0venting about buying American-made, please realize that it’s an opinion typed on a computer that was most certainly made in China, Japan, or Taiwan. Sorry, Dorothy, but we’re not in Kansas anymore. We’re all part of a bigger picture, and that picture involves supporting workers around the world\u2014not governments, but workers, people like you and me. So my stand is, I\u00a0support\u00a0workers, wherever they\u00a0happen to live. Made in the USA, <\/em>awesome. Project F.A.R.M. (First-class American Rural Made), <\/em>love it. And yes,\u00a0Made in the World.\u00a0<\/em>For me, they’re no longer mutually exclusive.<\/p>\n To win this beautiful calendar, tell me why you’ve decided to embrace the whole wide\u00a0world and ALL the working people in it.<\/strong> We’ll put your name in a hat and pull out\u00a0one lucky winner sometime in the next week or so. Stay tuned!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And the winner of the One World Family Calendar giveaway is: Lisa VonSaunder, who said: “These herder woman look like Masai tribeswomen. I support small business people in emerging nations by donating small amounts to Kiva.com. which is a micro … Continue reading ![\"world-family-calendar_9228\"](\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/world-family-calendar_9228.jpg\")
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