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A cafe and charity in Scotland named Social Bite, is doing great things for homeless people. They train and hire the homeless to work in their restaurants, donate 100% of the profits to charity, and give free food to the homeless community. Now Social Bite has even built a small village for their rough-sleeping employees! Awesome!
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James Longcroft wanted to sell bottles of water in the United Kingdom to raise money to provide clean drinking water in Africa. But the bottle had to be completely biodegradable and non-toxic to ecosystems, and inexpensive. Named Choose Water, the bottles are made of a special paper, and all profits will go to his charity, Water For Africa.
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A house was just 3D-printed in Texas in less than 24 hours! It has a living room, bathroom and porch and was printed from mortar. ICON and New Story are the organizations that built the home as an example of the communities they hope to create for the poor in El Salvador and Haiti.
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Talk about putting your money where your mouth is! Comfort Restaurant in Richmond Virginia, co-owned by Chef Jason Alley and Michele Jones, now donates all of its net profits to help fight hunger! They partnered with FeedMore, a hunger relief organization serving central Virginia. Eat delicious food at Comfort, feed strangers. It’s a win-win!
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Darren King from Worton England takes jumping rope to a new level. He just spent 8 hours at the gym to raise money for the Prostate Cancer charity while breaking a world record. He raised 5000 pounds and skipped 59,916 steps! Do you think you could beat that record? Start practicing!
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Los Angeles is the latest city to use a new way to raise money for charity. They unveiled 6 parking meters to collect change for the homeless. Denver, Milwaukee, Washington DC, Detroit, Pasadena, and Indianapolis have similar programs. The meters have happy faces painted on them because it feels good to help others!
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Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico over 3 months ago. 45% of the population still doesn’t have electricity, and it could take until May to get all the power back on. Some kids in Traverse City Michigan raised $600 for Puerto Rican relief by having a bake sale! Brainstorm how you can help, too!
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The Action Hunger and Friary charity groups in the United Kingdom have developed a vending machine for homeless people. The machine will have fresh fruit, sandwiches, socks, books, toothpaste, and other essentials. The homeless population in Nottingham will get keycards to access the machine 3 times a day.
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Giving Tuesday is a good time to tell you about ways kids have raised money for charity. 8 year-olds Max Chwatko and Alex Travis started charging a nickel a joke to raise money for cancer research and have raised $30,000! But the Comedy Kids can’t top Charlie Simpson. The 7 year-old raised $240,000 for Haiti after the earthquake in 2010 by riding his bike 5 miles!
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Yesterday people spent over 6 billion dollars shopping online on Cyber Monday. Today is the day to give something back! It’s Giving Tuesday, named in 2012 when two organizations wanted to designate one day for global charity. Last year generous people around the world donated more than 168 million dollars to help others!