Rowing for Water

An amazing story of a young women with a cause.

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Does money make you happy?

Not if you are Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder.

After several life-changing trips abroad, and realizing that there might be some connection between his 4.7 million fortune and the poverty of the people he saw.

All the money he raises from selling his home, business and other assets will go to his microcredit charity which offers small loans to Latin America and helps self-employed people in El Salvador, Honduras, Peru, Argentina, and Chile.

                                                        

Read more of the story here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/7190750/Millionaire-gives-away-fortune-which-made-him-miserable.html

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Help Haiti

If you're interested in helping out families in Haiti immediately, here are some organizations to which you can contribute:

Red Cross

https://american.redcross.org/site/Donation2?4306.donation=form1&idb=1258680681&df_id=4306&JServSessionIdr004=k1o23ghjt4.app196a

You can donate $10 to be charged to your cell phone bill by texting "HAITI" to "90999"

Doctors Without Borders:

https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=197&hbc=1?ref=main-menu

Find more ways to help through the Center for International Disaster Information, or through USAID's interactive website.

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