I love this story. What makes a great entrepreneur a greater person? How about doing something good for good cause. Train for Humanity is a great start-up non-profit organization that is built to do something meaningful! Personally, I have been with non-profit charity organization for years, I know how it feels to support a great organization like this. It makes me feel great! So can you! Please read more about what they are doing and show them your support!
Here are something about this great organization.
Over the past five years, 200,000 civilians have died due to violence, malnutrition, and disease in Darfur and an additional 2.2 million people have been displaced. We want to do something about it.
Fed up with watching humanitarian crises on the evening news and not doing anything to help, a group of bloggers (most notably, Leo Babauta of Zen Habits) have created and founded the non-profit Train for Humanity, which is an online humanitarian awareness and fundraising organization.
Over 150,000 new blogs are added to the Internet everyday. Train for Humanity’s mission is to utilize the web, social media, and blogging, in tandem with athletes in training, to support organizations that help prevent suffering and alleviate the pain of children, orphans, and refugees who have been displaced due to genocide or internal strife and war within their country.
Quite simply, they believe – getting fit + social media + blogging = social good
The three pilot project athlete-bloggers, Mark Hayward, Dan Clements, and Leo Babauta are hoping to raise awareness for the current crisis in Darfur and funds for the organization Darfur Peace and Development. All three are training for endurance events of varying distances ranging from a triathlon to a marathon.
They hope to show people that with a little creativity and innovation, anyone can assist and make a difference in the world. If you would like to learn more, have a look at the Train for Humanity website and please consider sponsoring one of them or spreading the word.
Please join us (bloggers) to spread the words and effort! These are great people doing great things to the world. At the mean time, I have to mention that Mark Hayward is one of my blogger friends for a long time. We have never met in our life, but what he has done in the past has inspired me a lot on my own entrepreneur journey. He is a great person who is trying to make difference in the real world. Showing your support will definitely make difference to the world that we are living in!
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thank you, Thank You, Terence!! Your support really means a lot.
@Mark:
Just curious how was it going for the first day? Did you get a lot of traffic, donation and stumbles? You can write me offline. Thanks!
any effort being carried out to do something about the situation in darfur is to be commended. i hope this organization finds success, and continues into the long term.
@konuji:
I am sure they will succeed. They are doing things with good cause, which will make them stand out from others.
This event has many positive qualities all bottled up into a single entity. Health is something that is being strengthened by the activity performed, and the process is placed under the theme of blogging, which is quite with the current times.