Give pencils by signing up for Camfed news

Camfed is an NGO that sponsors girls' education in Zimbabwe, Ghana, Zambia, Tanzania and Malawi. Supporting girls' education has been demonstrated to be one of the most effective ways of reducing poverty and producing all sorts of other happy benefits. So if you'd like to contribute to this happiness you can sign up to the Camfed newsletter at http://uk.camfed.org/site/PageServer?pagename=involved_index; for each signup the organization will provide an African girl with a year's worth of pencils.


Effort involved: so little you can sneeze at it. You can always remove yourself from the mailing list. Also, you can always use dummy email addresses to sign up to the newsletter multiple times. This might be a case where mild fraud has a positive outcome.

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