Give1Save1/Pure Charity

Alright friends, I have a little something I want to share with you, and I hope you think it's as awesome as I do!  I want to tell you about a little project called Give1Save1-Africa.  This project is so great!  It's a blog started by several women who have a heart for helping families bring their children home through adoption- and I love it!  As most of you who have been reading this blog for a while and know our story know- adoption is expensive, it's hard, and it's long!! And just when you think you've got everything figured out- God shows you His plans, that are so much better than anything you could have dreamed up.  And that is exactly what happend on our journey to our sweet Ryah! So here is what their blog says about what Give1Save1 is:

                                                                          

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Every Monday I’m going to ask you for a dollar. I’m going to tell you who it’s going to and what it’s being used for. We’re mostly funding adoption for the people, by the people. We’re just going to rain down a crazy blessing on a family, organization, orphanage, or project and we’re going to do it every week. We’re going to get huge. And the world will be changed for lots of people because of your generosity. That sounds exciting, doesn’t it?! Let’s do it.

I’ll tell you who we’re sponsoring and where to send your dollar. Then once you’ve donated your dollar spread the word to get some more dollars in here. If you have a voice, an email account, a blog, a facebook page, a twitter account or a pinboard USE IT! The only way we can make a big difference is to make it viral!

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And your dollar will be saving and restoring lives in all kinds of ways. Removing a child from an orphanage gives that child a family and a future, something everyone needs. It also frees up a bed in an orphanage for another orphan. Your dollar will change lives and save lives in ways you may never know.

So, every week they feature a new family's video in an effort to help them raise money for their adoption, and the goal is to get the video to go viral and have tons of people donate.  All they ask is that if you watch the video-you donate a dollar and share it with someone else so they can donate, and most people will give more than a dollar, but one dollar is all they ask.  We can all spare a dollar to help those in need!  One dollar can change a life- it's that simple! What an awesome and easy way we can all be involved in God's command to care for orphans.  I have seen several families have their fundraising efforts funded through this blog and I just think it's an awesome blessing!

Now, in the last month, Give1Save1 has also teamed up with Pure Charity to do their fundraising.  Pure Charity is an awesome organization that allows families a tax deductible way to give to projects that they would like to support.  You can shop pretty much anywhere you normally would online and get a percentage of that money back in your giving fund to go towards whatever project you choose, and there are so many amazing projects to choose from!  It's pretty awesome and we will definitely be taking advantage of this great opportunity! Check out this video:

Rewards Network Promo from Pure Charity on Vimeo.

Also check out this post to see an adoption friend of mine explain how this works with adoption fundraisers!

Now, if you've made it to the end of this post, you may have guessed that this was the opportunity I hinted about in my last update post.  And you can see that I think all this is awesome-from the obnoxious amount of times I've used that word in this post :)  Keep checking the blog this week for further updates, and you may just see some familiar faces on these sites soon! And please head over to Give1Save1 today to check out this week's family!