UPDATE: I AM NO LONGER AN ELEVEN MOM, I STEPPED DOWN AT THE END OF 2008. MY REASONS ARE POSTED HERE.


Today is Blog Action Day and bloggers all over the world will be coming together to fight poverty.  I am honored to do my part for this very important initiative.  My effort today is dedicated to my late grandfather (whom we affectionately called Gar), Bill Prigg, who even on the coldest nights of winter would deliver blankets to the homeless of Washington, DC.

This one's for you "Gar"!

Walmart has pledged to match, dollar for dollar, all of the money the ElevenMoms raise today through our advertising.  Their slogan is "Save Money. Live Better" and by supporting Blog Action Day they are helping those in need, live better, indeed.  Every penny I make from advertising via YouData today (at top of far right hand column on this site) will go to the Blog Action Day efforts.  If you haven't experienced YouData yet, it is an advertising platform where YOU decide what ads to view.  So take a moment to create your MeFile and start helping me raise as much money as possible today.

So who am I raising money for today?  A project that a fellow ElevenMom, Colleen Padilla aka Classy Mommy, is passionate about.  Project Peanut Butter.  As a mom I wanted to give to an organization that specifically helps kids and when Colleen told me about what they do, I knew it was the perfect match for me.

What does Project Peanut Butter do?  From their website:

"Project Peanut Butter is a therapeutic feeding program for malnourished children in Malawi and Sierra Leone, on the continent of Africa. It was founded by Professor Mark Manary, M.D., a pediatrician at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and a professor of pediatric medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Manary has worked in Africa for more than two decades, finding his calling solving the problem of severe malnutrition among the world’s most impoverished and malnourished children. He is recognized the world over as a leading authority on severe childhood malnutrition.

Dr. Manary was the first to conduct clinical trials of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), a peanut/dairy/vitamin/mineral food that offers a 95% recovery rate for severely malnourished children and is administered in the home. This represents a vast improvement over the milk-based formulas of the recent past that offered dismal recovery rates of 25% - 40% and required hospitalization, subjecting children to infectious agents when their malnourished bodies were less able to withstand this additional burden.

In 2007, the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition, the World Health Organization and UNICEF issued a joint statement, establishing Dr. Manary’s community-based treatment protocols and formula as the most effective method by which to treat severely malnourished children the world over."

I am really excited about this program and again I hope you'll help me raise money for this worthy cause.  Please show your support by visiting the other ElevenMoms' blogs that have posted about poverty today.

Green Your Decor: http://www.greenyourdecor.com/2008/10/15/blog-action-day-fight-poverty-with-your-wallet/

Being Frugal: http://beingfrugal.net/2008/10/15/world-poverty-how-you-can-help/

Deal Seeking Mom: http://www.dealseekingmom.com/blog-action-day-doing-my-part-to-end-poverty-and-how-you-can-help/ and   http://www.dealseekingmom.com/freebies-roundup-blog-action-day-edition/

Frugal Upstate: http://frugalupstate.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-action-day-2008-poverty.html

From Dates to Diapers: http://www.fromdatestodiapers.com/2008/10/walmart-teams-up-with-elevenmoms-to.html

Kingdom First Mom: http://www.kingdomfirstmom.com/2008/10/fight-poverty-with-blog-action-day.html

Skimbaco Lifestyle: http://www.skimbacolifestyle.com/2008/10/join-me-fighting-against-global-poverty.html

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