How You and A Small #BlueKey Will Change the World

by Tinu

 

In today’s install­ment of Non-Profit Sun­days, I want to tell you how you can help change the world with a blue key. If you get one, you can align with USA for UNHCR to help refugees get “the pro­tec­tion, food, shel­ter and care that they need”.

This is nor­mally the part where I’d go into detail about the spe­cific issue that made me want to back this endeavor, in this case, the drive to ask 6000 Amer­i­cans to get their own blue keys by June 20th, World Refugee Day. Instead of going into my nor­mal depth of detail on the issue, I’m going to point you to other resources where you can get more infor­ma­tion about who the refugees are, what UNHCR is/does, and the cur­rent sta­tus of the refugee cri­sis is.

I could go into all kinds of details, appeal to your sense of pity, pull on your heart strings. But I’d like to think that by now, we know each other. You know that when I want your money, I’m just going to ask you for it, and tell you what you’ll get in return, that’s worth so much more than what you’ll give, whether it’s to me, or some­one else. So here it is.

For your pocket change, you will change the world. You’ll give voices to peo­ple who need oth­ers to help speak for them after their prob­lems aren’t a hot news item anymore.

There was a time when I didn’t believe how far $5 could go. I used to think, “whose life is going to change for the price of a mag­a­zine?” Then I went to Africa, for almost a month, with less than $100 in my pocket and came back with change, and lived like a princess the whole time. So I can tell you with first­hand knowl­edge: Your $5 will change a life.

Like you, I have faith that many of us mak­ing small, con­certed efforts can make a huge dif­fer­ence. We can change the world — we ARE chang­ing the world. So today, I’m going to appeal to your sense of empow­er­ment in ask­ing you to join me in get­ting your own blue key. It’s a small sac­ri­fice that will make a huge dif­fer­ence. Visit the Blue Key Cam­paign to learn more.