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Epic Thanks: Sharing Gratitude And Working For Change

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Tomorrow many will gather with friends and family to give thanks but Tweetsgiving takes the celebration online for a good cause. Epic Thanks is a an offshoot of the original Tweetsgiving celebration which was founded in 2008. It was started by Epic Change, a group that has focused on building a primary school in Arusha, Tanzania run by local changemaker Mama Lucy Kamptoni. What started as a small school now serves over 400 children and has become one of the top primary schools in their country.

The Epic Thanks website is about the transformative power of thankfulness. For the last day or so people have been creating personalized thank you cards that can then be posted on Facebook or Twitter as well as the Epic Thanks website, sharing your feelings with the world. You can also donate to three great changemakers: Mama Lucy; Subhash Ghimire in Nepal, who is working on building the first peace school in Nepal for children affected by war; and Mike Halley, a retired US Marine who founded Halley's K-9s for Veterans, an organization to provide service dogs to disabled veterans of all ages.

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To Mama With Love, Honoring Mom By Doing Good

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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Need a last minute Mother's Day gift idea? If you are looking for a way to honor your mother (or any mother figure in your life) here's a cool way to take a digital approach. No, not an e-card, something a bit more personal. A heartspace on To Mama With Love, a social charity initiative from Epic Change. The way it works is that you donate money to Epic Chance to help build a home for orphaned children in Tanzania and then you create a heartspace for your Mama with images, words, video, anything you like. The space appears on a map on the website along with other expressions of mama love. So far there are nearly 200 mamas on the page.

Epic Change is a 501c3 US nonprofit that has helped grassroots changemaker Mama Lucy Kamptoni, who started a school in Arusha, Tanzania with money she made selling chickens. She began with just 10 students but now serves more than 411 kids and her school is currently ranked #2 in her district out of 118 schools. A video on the project is after the jump.

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Epic Change, Charity of the Day

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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Epic Change has a unique philosophy toward doing good in the world. They believe that people's stories are assets that can be used as resources to improve their lives. They help people share their stories in innovative, creative and profitable ways to help them acquire the financial resources to create change in their communities. Their first project involves rebuilding and expanding Shepherds Junior, a small pre- and primary school located in Arusha, Tanzania. The school is taught in English but includes courses in the country's primary language, Swahili, and celebrates the culture and history of Tanzania. The school's goal is to give the children in the area a high quality education at an affordable price and charges less than 30% of the cost of private schools of similar quality within the area. They charge nominal tuition to most students and uses income to subsidize the costs of orphans and lower income children who attend the school. The land on which the school is based was sold to a hotel developer. Epic Change is working to help rebuild and expand Shepherds Junior in a new location adding a computer lab, library, cafeteria, playground, classrooms and solar panels for power. An acre of land has been purchased and students are currently attending school in four new classrooms. The Epic Change group and some volunteers are headed back to Tanzania this summer and future story-related projects include a greeting card line that includes pictures of the children and a post card line that includes photos by the children. Epic Change is actively looking for donations as well as volunteers to join them in helping work epic change in the lives of these children.

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