The Hong Kong government is always looking for new & profitable ways to exploit the harbour & reclaim the land for commercial usage. Someone has to fight on behalf of the waterway & that someone is The Society For Protection Of The Harbour.
Check out their website for more information on how you can help preserve one the world’s greatest beauties for future generations.
Check out the Arbor Day Foundation’s website where you can have trees planted in the name’s of loved ones. It’s a gift that gives for a lifetime.
http://www.arborday.org/shopping/giveatree/giveatree.cfm
If you need convincing:
‘As the trees grow and prosper, so does the meaning of your gift.
Over the course of 50 years, a single tree can generate $31,250 of oxygen, provide $62,000 worth of air pollution control, recycle $37,500 worth of water, and control $31,500 worth of soil erosion.
Your trees will be silent sentinels, honorable monuments, and for decades to come, active participants in nature’s plan.’
I’ve recently started loaning money to third world entrepreneurs on a microfinancing website called Kiva. I think it’s a pretty cool way to contribute to the under-privileged in the developing world. It’s not a handout so it comes back down to the basic principles of teaching a man how to fish. Sometimes I wonder if traditional charitable contributions to the third world do more harm than good, such as turning a nation’s peoples into beggars. I think microfinance is a way to combat that while providing encouragement, & exhibiting generosity, but at the same time providing a real world sense of responsibility.
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Kiva (www.kiva.org) is a non-profit that allows you to lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur in the developing world.
You choose who to lend to - whether a baker in Afghanistan, a goat herder in Uganda, a farmer in Peru, a restaurateur in Cambodia, or a tailor in Iraq - and as they repay their loan, you get your money back. It’s a powerful and sustainable way to empower someone right now to lift themselves out of poverty.
