Save the Children

Intel Corporation, Save the Children and Kiva.org have joined forces to raise awareness and funds so children in developing countries can attend primary school and their parents can earn higher incomes. Throughout the developing world more than 75 million primary age children are not in school – robbing them of future opportunity continuing the cycle of poverty – and at least 80 percent of humanity lives on less than $10 a day, according to data from the United Nations.

The program, called “Small Things Challenge”, donates money to Save the Children’s Rewrite the Future education initiative, which is focused on securing quality education for the millions of children out of school due to war and armed conflict. It also urges people to provide micro-loans through Kiva.org to entrepreneurs in the developing world, another way to raise the standard of living.

If people go to www.smallthingschallenge.com and click on the “we’ll donate 25 cents for you” button on the web site, Intel will provide up to $300,000 this year to the “Small Things Challenge”. So easy to do over a morning cup of coffee!