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Today is my 2nd time to join Blog Action Day. The theme for Blog Action Day 2008 is “Poverty”. I hope my post bring “make poverty history” awareness to my reader.

Instead of blogging here, what can we do to help reduce poverty? Many events will be hold around the world in next few days. The goal is to end poverty and inequality.

What action can you take (at home) to help end poverty?

Kiva Loan Help Entrepreneurs

Kiva is a micro-lending website. It allow you to lend small amount of money to specific entrepreneur. They need the money to improve their business and hopefully lift themselves out of poverty.

You may check out their business model before lend your money. Overtime, the entrepreneur repays their loan. When you get money back, can re-lend to someone else in need. LiewCF already joined and become lender in Kiva. (more…)

Good news for Malaysian blogger and webmaster! There will be a 3rd Webmaster Malaysia Gathering in The Curve KL, 2 weeks from now.

This time, the gathering will be hold at The Apartment in The Curve KL. Excitedly, the event organizer has invited famous Malaysian blogger like LiewCF, Alang, and few other great webmasters to speak in this event.

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Today, 22 April is Earth Day. I wish to spread the words of awareness for the Earth’s environment. How a blogger bring the awareness of earth’s environment? What a blogger can do to help and save the earth’s environment? You might curious how can you do it? We will discuss it further when you read through.

Spread the Words

The first thing we as a blogger can do is spread the words to bring up the awareness for earth environment. I believe you have seen the movie “An Inconvenient Truth”. Although I am not totally agree with the author’s words, he did bring up the awareness of global warming. The fact is, not only global warming but also water and air polution. I believe we as human are not able to resolve this problem, but at least do not hurt the earth further.

Please copy and paste the codes below to your blog and show the Earth Day Awareness picture.

<div><a href=”http://ahtim.com/reduce-pc-power-to-save-the-earth”><img src=”http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2091/2432266113_ba6805b6eb.jpg?v=0″ /></a></div>

Reduce PC Power Consumption

I know you have curious, until which extend we can save the environment. According to the facts, more than 30 billion kilowatt-hours of energy is wasted because many of us simply forget to shut down our computers when we aren’t using them. This is really a bad habit.

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It was already 10 years since Netscape launched mozilla.org to develop its open source project. It’s most well known project – Mozilla Firefox has been reached its success milestone by achieve 500 Millions downloads.

With this achievement, Mozilla willing to donate 500 Millions grains of rice to feed the world’s poor and hungry people.You could contribute part of this 500 Millions grains of rice!

How to Donate Free Rice?

Play the vocabulary game on Free Rice and donation with go to the hunger. No sign up, no login, no hassle. Just goto Free Rice homepage, answer the word meaning with objective choice. For each word you answer correctly, Mozilla donate 20 grains of rice (money earn from ads) through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger in over 75 countries.

According to the United Nations, about 25,000 people die each day from hunger or hunger-related causes, most of them children. While you answer the vocabulary game correctly, you are actually helping one of these child to have some food on that day. So why don’t join now? There is no limit, do what ever you can!

My two cents

Mozilla is so kind to organize this charity work. Hope the money generated from the website can save some life in poor countries. I myself have contributed 100 grains of rice to them by answered 5 question correctly! How many grains have you contributed?

Tips: Check out the word’s meaning at Dictionary.com (English dictionary) or Tigernt.com (Eng to Chinese dictionary)