Dollar Destinations

Where is your dollar going? With poverty and hunger at crisis point in Sierra Leone, it is not surprising that the majority of dollars have been tagged by onehitwonder givers so far to go to Africa for food and health.  Of those who indicated where they would like their dollar to go, 58% picked Africa: 20% for health related needs; 14% for food; 11% for education; and the remainder for housing, emergency relief and micro-enterprise and small business loans.  The Asian region also featured moderately strongly amongst hitters with 7% choosing their dollar to be used for health, and almost 6% for food related needs. 

[the ohw team]

Internet Socialite?

Are you an internet socialite? Use your internet savvy and social networks to get the word out about onehitwonder!  For example, after you've made a $1 hit, join the onehitwonder group on facebook and send invites to all your friends.  Tell them you've given a dollar and encourage them to do the same. Mention onehitwonder in your blogs or post a link to the the website on your own webpage or blogging site.  Use the 'small change, big changes' mantra to lead people to the onehitwonder page.  And so on. In other words, conjure all your internet influence and become part of something worth spreading!   

[the ohw team].

Be Bothered!

Can't Be Bothered?  I was recently listening to Zainab Bangura - Sierra Leone's foreign minister - pleading with us to ask our governments to act on behalf of the people of her country, 70% of whom cannot afford one meal a day.  Between now and September, 90% of the people of Sierra Leone will not afford one bag of rice*.

Once again I was reminded that nothing will change if we can't be bothered... be bothered by the fact that many on our shared earth face poverty, starvation, disease, civil war.... 

Please be bothered.  Perhaps be bothered enough to make a one dollar hit and pass it on...  Your small change - along with the small change of many others - can make big changes to people's lives: their livelihood, health, quality of life, and ability to survive.  

Thankyou for being bothered!  the ohw team.

*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQhqbaqc42w&eurl=http://www.avaaz.org/en/world_food_crisis/tf.php?cl_tf_sign=1