Our favourite charity worker Bill Gates has successfully signed up 38 billionaires to give away half of their wealth to those less fortunate in what could be the largest-scale philanthropic work ever.
Maybe you prioritised reading comic books over extreme physical conditioning and the honing of your latent superpowers. That’s OK. Because if you have the cash, you can buy your way into the next X-Men movie.
ReCellular, the world’s leading recycler of mobile phones, has launched Phones For Haiti – a relief effort that donates 100 per cent of the value of your recycled phone to quake victims via the American Red Cross. [Phones for Haiti via Inhabitat]
mGive, a non-profit organisation working with Red Cross to collect donations via text message, has announced that they have collected over $US4 million for Haitian relief. Jenifer Snyder, mGive’s executive director, said that donations are coming in at the rate of $US200,000 an hour, though they have capacity to take on more.
