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This week I found out how to use a cashiers check!! Before I never really understood what the difference was between a Cashier's check and a normal check, but my apartment needed a cashier's check for something instead of a normal check. So I had to go into my bank and get a cashiers check for the earnest money used in my home purchase. I didn't know how to do it, but luckily one of the teller's was willing to help out. The bank takes the amount of money you put on your cashiers check out of…
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I really like the idea of community currencies. If most people in the community use their specialized currency, it makes sure that the town or city's economy is not guaranteed to collapse if the national currency system breaks down. Particularly in underdeveloped communities I think this would be great because of the instability of the governments. Its a way to create a sense of monetary security within the town. Since there is one particular group using it, this system would also make sure…
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I like the work that Water for People is doing. I'm donating money to parter with this organization to bring clean water to people. Water For People helps people in developing countries improve the quality of life by supporting drinking water resources, sanitation facilities, and hygiene education programs. 783 million people don't have access to clean drinking water and 2.5 billion don't have clean facilities, and I feel like WFP understands that this is aright we shouldn't stand for. Every…
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In the past, Yani Madrid, a 37-year-old mother of three children, walked every morning before dawn to the nearest, unsafe, water source in the Honduran district of San Antonio de Cortés.
“Every day was the same thing. I carried two buckets to fill with water so we could have water at home to drink and cook," she says with a soft laugh.
Filled to the brim, the 60-pound buckets of water hammered her shoulders as she walked two hours, sometimes multiple times a day. Yani's children,…
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In the year 2020 I will be celebrating 4th of July with my friends and family at an outdoor cookout. This has always been my favorite holiday because of the number and types of peopler that it brings together. No matter what race or religion, every American can be thankful and celebrate Independence Day. During our cookout we will have an iPod doc that is completely powered by solar energy!! Singing along with friends and enjoying our celebratory cookout music will be completely powered in a…
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In the year 2020 I hope to be married and Eating dinner with my husband. I imagine that the food we'll be eating in our American apartment will be more organic than the food that we consume now. Hopefully a lot of fish will be in my diet becsue they are finding out more and more how healthy fish is for our bodies.
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I helped with a local church in Gainesville serve food to people downtown on a Wednesday afternoon. It was such a rewarding experience just passing food out to some of the thousands in my town who are homeless. Smiling at them and just giving them a warm piece of chicken or bread to eat was very touching. Helping them ensure that they would have enough warm food to get them through the next day of their life was the least that I could do. Doing that really gave me a new perspective and…
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I helped with a local church in Gainesville serve food to people downtown on a Wednesday afternoon. It was such a rewarding experience just passing food out to some of the thousands in my town who are homeless. Smiling at them and just giving them a warm piece of chicken or bread to eat was very touching. Helping them ensure that they would have enough warm food to get them through the next day of their life was the least that I could do. Doing that really gave me a new perspective and…
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Bread of the Mighty Food Bank is an organization that is working to serve people who are food insecure in North Central Florida. The Bread of the Mighty Food Bank was established in 1987 to serve the counties of Alachua, Lafayette, Levy, Dixie, and Gilchrist in North Central Florida. BMFB functions by acquiring, storing, and distributing food and basic essentials via the support of 130 plus agency partners and more than 800 community volunteers. These agencies include soup kitchens, food…
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