Taylor was so amazed by the beautiful sight in Uganda when he first reached the place, and said “This is so cool, we’re so bad-ass. There’s stuff going I don’t know what it is, I’ve heard bad things about it. It’s so beautiful, and there are so many kids!” “Taylor, 50% of this village has AIDS. Their parents are dead.” “At that moment, that trip turned from being an adventure into a transformational experience of [...]

Procter and Gamble (P&G) launched its corporate social responsiblity (CSR) campaign in this August: Give Health program – aimed at providing a day’s worth (about 2 litres) of clean drinking water for 100,000 days to people in need around the world. Started this November, female bloggers can get involved in this campaign by addding a Give Health widget to their blogs. (although I’m not so sure why only female bloggers…)

The project got covered in the news on The Straits Times 28 August, 2010 (Saturday) Home/Causes section. What a great way to end the module for us.

If you are not sure what happened, here’s what my group did for a fundraising project in July.

As everyone around me would know, this entire July I have been actively involved in online fundraising for my school project – where 85 students majoring in Public Relations in Murdoch University in Singapore have been assigned to 14 different causes to work with.

Using social media, we raised funds of over $10,000 with zero cost.