Hello!
Today, November 19th is World Toilet Day, a day to raise awareness for 2.6 Billion people in this world who suffer discomfort, disease and loss of dignity due to lack of access to basic sanitation.
Milaap.org, (read about them below) is running an online campaign to voice our support and end this discrimination in our lifetime.
Milaap’s challenge: If Milaap gets 10,000 people to join their campaign on Facebook / Twitter (likes/follows) before 26th November 2010, they’ll receive $2500 from NUS Enterprise as a grant.
100% of the grant shall go towards a pilot program to provide microloans for safe sanitation in Trichy, India benefiting 60+ people for a lifetime .
Join here: http://partner.milaap.org/
What can you do: Join the campaign, invite your friends to the Facebook page and Twitter page, donate your status message, Tweet/blog about this, email friends, etc. Just do whatever it takes to spread the awareness!
About Milaap: Milaap is a social start-up enterprise started by two NUS alumni. They raise loans through their online platform to support capital needs of rural microentrepreneurs in India and Southeast Asia working on community development initiatives such as those in the fields of sanitation, education, clean water etc. Find more about them here: http://www.milaap.org.
