Bloggers for Haiti: with a little help from my friends
Apologies for channelling The Beatles there. But an amazing thing has happened. A little email chat between friends has turned into a really amazing thing. And I’m so, so proud. Really, I am.
Our JustGiving page total stands at just over £3000, which means that so far we have raised enough money to send six whole boxes of help to the people of Haiti.
And how did it all happen? Well, it went something like this:
First, Erica at Little Mummy did a blog post…
then Laura at Are we nearly there yet, Mummy? did a blog post…
then Tara at Sticky Fingers did a blog post…
Then Alice at Dulwich Divorcée did a blog post…
then Rosie at Rosie Scribble did a blog post…
then Jo Beaufoix did a blog post…
Then Lulu at Family Affairs did a blog post…
Then Jane at Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman did a blog post…
And then Linda at You’ve got your hands full did a blog post…
and then Susanna at A Modern Mother and her amazing British Mummy Bloggers all did posts…
and then bloggers all around the world started blogging about it:
There was Grandad at HeadRambles in Ireland…
and Coastal Aussie and Baino in Australia…
and Don’t Bug Me in Canada…
and even Hails at Coffee Helps in South Korea…
and then all their wonderful readers donated money, and those readers that were bloggers did blog posts about it. Then their readers donated money, and their readers who were bloggers spread the word by blogging, and the British Mummy Bloggers all blogged about it, and suddenly everyone was tweeting about it: Chris Evans tweeted about it, for goodness’ sake!
And not only did we make an enormous amount of money for Shelterbox to send their fabulous boxes to Haiti, but we made new friends, read new blogs, learned new things about each other.
And no, I doubt that many people will ever make a living out of blogging. But bloody hell, we can make a difference.
STOP PRESS:
ShelterBox Press Officer Angelina Lambourn said: ‘The devastation in Haiti has moved everyone here. We now have our boxes on the ground and it’s a privilege to help. The scale of devastation is huge. By the sheer grit and determination of our staff and volunteers we have been able to respond in record time. Our thanks go to the teams of volunteers, as well as to our donors such as Englishmum.com, who have allowed us to do this. ShelterBox relies entirely on public donations and people’s generosity. We receive no institutional funding and no DEC money. I’d urge, if you can, to help us.’
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And once everyone has read this post and commented, go and read Jo’s where she gives English Mum the praise she deserves:
http://www.jobeaufoix.com/2010/01/18/a-shining-star-of-wonderful-gorgeousness/
laura
xx
Of course everyone else gets kudos too!
I’m so proud of us all, as a community for making a difference. 6 boxes is incredible
English Mum says so therefore I will follow. THAT is how wonderful you are.
And now all the niceties are out of the way I’m off to read the 54 emails you’ve helped clog up my in box with . . . curse you EM
Off you go, then
PS: I love you xx
EM – I love you, you are a star.
xxx
Well done great effort!
RRR
Mwah.
And where you see tJust, well you knew what that meant. I think I may need to clean my keyboard.
Well done EM and everyone, what an amazing amount to have raised so far, you’re all brilliant.
Kate, I couldn’t find an Irish equivalent either so have given to Irish Red Cross instead.