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[Rivanor]

[OFF TOPIC] Lost Ring for a Good Cause

[lhall]

What a great idea! I love the groups mentioned above but here's some more off the top of my head.

Lush Cosmetics sells a "Charity Pot" lotion that benefits some nice charities, and it should target roughly the same demographic. Those are:

Clean Ocean Action
Amazon Conservation Team
Tree People
UNICEF's Unite for children, Unite for AIDS program
International Fund for Animal Welfare
WaterCan
Oceana
Ocean Conservancy


I personally like Rosa Loves and I know of a couple of other philanthropic tee companies, but I'll have to look up the names and add them in later.


Finally, I also think it would be interesting if the Lost Ring game somehow established a foundation that donates money to local charities, schools or area improvement in the cities around the world where labyrinths are run. It's a nice extra incentive for people to get events going and seeing the improvements/giving people the opportunity to help out would give players a tangible payoff that lasts beyond the end of the game.

[lhall]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AqlLyLeJuQ

Nice PSA for charity: water, seems like a good global cause.

[Oriza]

I don't know how much these relate to the game, and they are fairly big, but I personally think they're very good. And they were the only ones I could think of off the top of my head.

National Wildlife Federation
Save Darfur
[url=amnesty.org]Amnesty International[/url]
[url=wish.org]Make A Wish Foundation[/url]

All of these are global, but I think the SaveDarfur charity is the one that really will be influenced by the Olympics. Because, as (hopefully) most of us know, there is a horrible genocide going on in Dafur, Sudan right now. The janjaweed (sponsored military) are slaughtering millions of innocents there, and Sudan's government, instead of doing everything they can to stop the janjaweed, are actually SPONSORING them.

But one of the major contributors to Sudan's money that they use to pay the janjaweed is China-- as they import most of the oil they get from the Darfur region. (I'm not blaming the Chinese in the least, as I'm sure most Chinese people have no idea about this). The Olympics have already drawn many people's attention because of the whole Tibet thing and if we can get people to pay attention to where most of China's oil is coming from, perhaps we can help to stop this genocide.

/rant over. Sorry.
Also, a smaller charity that is very worthwhile is Nothing But Nets-- for every $10 USD you contribute, a lifesaving mosquito net is sent to malaria-ridden regions of Africa.