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Showing posts with label Help needed. Show all posts
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Sunday, April 27, 2025

Local Businesses - Highly Rewarding And Beneficial Even For Beginners

 Working with local businesses can be highly rewarding and beneficial, both to the companies and those providing support services or products. This post explains why you should consider this approach, how to get started, and some effective traffic sources to generate revenue. 

Supporting local businesses strengthens the community, boosts the local economy, and creates jobs. Many consumers prefer to shop local, especially in times of economic uncertainty.

Monday, April 14, 2025

Common Traffic Buying Complaints (And How to Avoid Them)

 

Purchasing traffic—whether through Pay-Per-View (PPV), pop-ups, push notifications, or native advertising—can be an effective strategy for enhancing visibility and driving conversions. 

Purchasing traffic—whether through Pay-Per-View (PPV), pop-ups, push notifications, or native advertising—can be an effective strategy for enhancing visibility and driving conversions.

However, many advertisers have encountered challenges and disappointments that foster skepticism toward traffic sellers. Understanding these common complaints helps buyers make smarter purchasing decisions, and sellers can improve their offerings.

I continue to explore the Empire of Website Traffic Success, the fourth part of my research. The information was systematized with the help of AI.

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Professional Satisfaction - It's Why I Write For Causes And Volunteer For Decades

This is a story I told in my LinkedIn profile. Maybe it could be interesting for you, too.

The greatest professional satisfaction I have yet had is to see the prosperity in Puerto Rican communities, which had lived on the edge of starvation for four hundred years before I wrote my advertisement. -- Ogilvy 

The first time I wrote for a cause happened many years ago. 

Organizers of a summer camp for underprivileged children from a US state (which I can't remember now) reached out to me for help. I believe it was in 2006 or 2007. At that time, I had a blog on Blogger where I wrote in English. 

I wrote an article and posted it on my blog. I also shared it across various platforms as I usually did — submitting the website URLs to blog aggregators and promoting it on social media. 

After writing the article, I completely forgot about it. My intention was simply to help in any way I could. I didn't think that someone living in Italy could assist someone in the United States with their writing. 

 To my surprise, in the following fall, I received an email from the organization expressing their gratitude for my help. They even included photos from the summer camp. As a teacher, I felt a deep sense of satisfaction. It served as confirmation that the world is small and that even small steps can make a difference. 

 Since then, I no longer doubt that I can contribute in my small way to improving the world. We don't have to spend our entire lives searching for a grand purpose to turn the world upside down. Just do what you are trained to do, no matter how small, and it can make a difference.



Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Loving Host Families for NY Citie's Children Needed

The Fresh Air Fund asked me a year ago to publish their appeal that they are looking for the families that can invite children to stay with them in summer. Now, I received a mail with the request to publish this notice (I copy from the site The Fresh Air Fund

In 2010, The Fresh Air Fund's Volunteer Host Family program, called Friendly Town, gave close to 5,000 New York City boys and girls, ages six to 18, free summer experiences in the country and the suburbs. Volunteer host families shared their friendship and homes up to two weeks or more in 13 Northeastern states from Virginia to Maine and Canada.

Thanks to host families who open up their homes for a few weeks each summer, children growing up in New York City’s toughest neighborhoods have experienced the joys of Fresh Air experiences.

More than 65% of all children are reinvited to stay with their host family, year after year.

Today the Fund thinks just about the coming summer and invites the families from these zones to partecipate on their program and host children in their houses. This is the map of the zones they need to cover.

 If you or someone you know is able to host, please sign up now.
Please, pass the notice to your friends.
The link of the site is this
http://freshairfundhost.org/

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Our Help Made the Difference!

All you know that I often partecipate on the campains to help somebody. I even can say, it's the main reason why all my blogs exist in all these years. It's not a bragging. I always try to help with my posts, with money. Some of you even argue with me because there are too many beggars in internet, and often it's difficult to distinguish between good people and those who wants to live on the neck of trustful bloggers. Well, these my friends are right too. But I try to help if I think it's about the right reason.

Unfortunately, those who organize the compains of help do not think to inform the partecipants about the results. In all these years I have only thank you comment from the organization that protects leopards. And it was a couple of back-mails from the funds where I personally sent money. Ah, no, I'm not right, many persons followed my links to the Baby-seals protection appeal and other humanistic and animal protection appeals -but I knew about them from my analytic program.

But this day is very happy. Very Very Happy. And I want to share the message with you because this letter is for YOU. Here it is:
Hi Liudmila

I wanted to write you a quick note to thank you for helping us this year with your post on Liudmila's Diary. The Fresh Air Fund was thrilled with all of the interest generated within the blogosphere for our Fresh Air children. We had close to 5000 volunteer host families open their home to a NYC child and 3000 children visited our camps. It was a great summer! Our Facebook Page continues to be a hub of activity for all things Fresh Air Fund. There are some excellent photos and videos we've posted along with photos from our host families. Please "like" us and it would be great if you could encourage your readers to do the same:

http://www.facebook.com/freshairfund

All of us at The Fresh Air Fund really appreciate your support. Together we can make sure these children have everything they need well in advance: camp counselors, host families, and plenty of resources!

Thank you so very much,

Sara

Saturday, June 19, 2010

A Beautiful Modern Tale: Two European Women Save Children of a Monastery

Please, post this fable in your blog! You can help children to survive -and it will cost nothing to you!

This story began some years ago when 2 European women met a Lama Bon that shortly arrived in Swiss from Tibet. The women were searching for spiritual development and were very brave students of this Teacher. They were devoted to their Teacher, and was logically they decided to visit Nepal or Tibet or India to become closer to the culture they studied.

In their pilgrimage, our heroines reached Sikkim in India and found a Bon monastery Yungdrung Kundrak Ling in very difficult condition there. Monasteries are very important in that part of the world because they are centers of culture, schools for children, probably the only possibility to give education to the new generations, not only places where monks can live and practice.

A monastery I write about with only a few adult monks had a group of children that lived there. (photo was taken in spring)

Монастырю в Сиккиме нужна помощь и нужны помощники


We all know the women I write about, we practice together, and know about their compassionate hearts, their wish to help everybody who needs help, their capacity to sacrifice themselves to the right cause. You can understand from it that they decided to pass their vacation helping the monks to maintain this school. They cooked, washed clothes, taught English and did everything was necessary. Both, they have grown own children and could not see without doing something to help how hard the life was there.

On the photo Geshe Gelek Jimpa reads and translates a greating letter sent from the monastery to the children of a Swiss school for their help:

Монастырю в Сиккиме нужна помощь и нужны помощники

Here what one of them, Daniela, tells:

Good health is very important there. The nearest doctor is 4 hours jeep journey and all day long walk far from the monastery. When I was there, soot entered into an eye of a 12 years old cook. This problem seems not grave but it can damage the eye for all the life. I had drops for eyes with me and cured the eye of that child. After that they treated me as a princess.

On the photo is a check the children of the Swiss school sent in the monastery

Монастырю в Сиккиме нужна помощь и нужны помощники

You’ve probably just said it: what all similar organizations need are money. All over the world. Yes, it's true.
Turned home, our courageous women began to think where they could find money to help that monastery. They told about it everywhere. Many persons helped. Even the children from the schools their daughters study at wanted to give what they could and to send in the monastery. The abbey of it wrote a letter to these children and you can see it on the photos. Daniela asked Geshe Gelek Jimpa to translate it on the ritrit in April (2010).

Ursula, that passed her vacation this year in the monastery too (in winter) wrote to all those who participated on the fund raising a year ago. I cite some dates here.

Dear friends and sponsors from Germany, Italy, Swiss, France and Spain... I could take euro 14,030 with me this time. Hope you’ve received thank-you letters from the monastery. The monks earned euro 2135 for the rituals they do, the government of Sikkim gave them euro 3000. With this money they began to repair the buildings of the monastery but there is much to do else.

The monastery needs your help if you want to go there. If you ask it, you will have the teachings in the monastery. You can ask the visa 2 times for 45 days in Sikkim now.

Write to Usha for more information ushala@aol.com
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The Information Letter from the Monastery you can find here:
Life of Children in a Monastery

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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

My Very Short Letter To You





My dear friends,
one young blogger found me on blogcatalog today and asked me to look at his blog. I do it, when one asks me. Why not. Before I passed to the blog I read suddenly his profile. It is here

http://www.blogcatalog.com/user/nhc1987

Read it you too. And maybe do what I did. Logically I don't write it here. All us know what I'm speaking about if you've read the profile.

Maybe it's the case to help.

Friday, March 21, 2008

Terrible Notices From Tibet

To see all photos from Lhasa visit these pages:
http://www.freetibet.org/press/kirtiphotos.html
http://www.freetibet.org/march2008.html



I received terrible notices from Tibet today and write about it here as promised to many of you ( I will boykott the Olympic Games and not watch any... ).

A pacific manifestation of 300-400 persons in Potala was blocked and shot by Chinese militaries with machine guns on 16/03, tell by phone italians presented in the zone.

Map of protests is from International Compain for Tibet

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Thursday, March 20, 2008

I will boykott the Olympic Games and not watch any of the competitions, not for a second!

To see all photos from Lhasa visit these pages:
http://www.freetibet.org/press/kirtiphotos.html
http://www.freetibet.org/march2008.html


The title of this post is a quater from the mail from a friend I received now.
Many of you know that I practice Tibetan Buddhismus and am in contact with corresponding organizations that is why some friends asked me if I know some ways to protest against cruelty of Chinese government against Tibetans (Debasis wrote yesterday, there are 90 of them killed till today) and against animals.

PLS read till the end of the post

I removed embedding codes of the videos because they do not work on te page. So, if you want to watch the videos, PLS click the addresses.
Some addresses of cruelty testimonials you will find in the comments to the post.

Tibet: inedit videos su internet
(Translate the page you are interested in) italian
http://tv.repubblica.it/home_page.php?playmode=player&cont_id=18426cv

Tibet: ''Cultural genocide'' Words of Dalai Lama
(Translate the page ) italianhttp://tv.repubblica.it/home_page.php?playmode=player&cont_id=18424


Now I'll try to find addresses of petitions you can firm and protests you can join (and will post them here then).
And I wanted to ask all of you: pls write here if ou know other ways to protest, so we can help people and animals.

Here you can join:
2/IOC: Speak Up About the Tibet Crisis! it's an appeal to president of Olympic Comitet Mr. Rogge

I had this email-comment today(21/03):
Please start to collect signature against Chineese oppression in Tibet and boycot Olympic
Tamal Lahiri
My answer:
Excuse me, pls, Tamal, but I'm not professional webmaster and do not know how to create pages like appeals. If somebody will send me addresses I'll publish them in my blogs, but I'm not able to do them myself.
From other side, I agree with Lama Paljin Tulku Rinpoce in this sence.(read down)

Here is what thinks Lama Paljin Tulku Rinpoce about the question - and I think is the most clever of all I read before:

(Translate the page)(italian)
Note del Ven. Lama Paljin Tulku Rinpoce in margine ai recenti fatti

BEATO COLUI CHE PUO’ DIRE “NON VIOLENTO E’ IL MIO NOME”

Il Buddhismo insegna che nulla succede per caso ma che tutto dipende da cause e condizioni. Le cause e condizioni che hanno ancora una volta spinto i tibetani a manifestare, in Tibet e fuori, il loro dissenso con il governo cinese sono ben note a tutti.
Ad esse va aggiunta l’imminenza dei Giochi Olimpici che dovrebbero consentire l’omologazione della Cina come paese degno della considerazione mondiale.

Questi sono gli ingredienti che recentemente hanno fatto esplodere la situazione a Lhasa e colpito emotivamente il mondo libero.

Ma dobbiamo chiederci a chi serve la violenza espressa da entrambe le parti, poiché la violenza, da qualunque parte arrivi, è sempre un male.

L’informazione televisiva ha riportato in evidenza problemi che il sangue versato in anni di impari antagonismo non ha ancora potuto risolvere.

Fin dal momento dell’invasione, e sono trascorsi più di cinquant’anni, nessun paese e nessuna Autorità internazionale ha concretamente cercato di modificare la posizione della Cina verso il popolo tibetano. Gli interventi a favore di una tradizione che scompare con grave danno morale e culturale per l’umanità, si sono sempre rivelati espedienti di facciata e sarebbe ingenuo credere che i moti e la repressione in corso possano cambiare l’ordine delle cose.

Siamo nuovamente di fronte ad un fatto mediatico che strumentalizza il dramma di un popolo a fini sensazionalistici.

E’ successo alcuni mesi fa in Birmania: il mondo ha seguito con il fiato sospeso la marcia silenziosa dei monaci buddhisti e si è riempito di nastrini rossi portati al polso o al collo in segno di solidarietà. Poi c’è stata la prevedibile repressione, e oggi è
tutto dimenticato.

Sarà così anche per il Tibet: la gente resta colpita dal numero dei morti ma dimentica presto i motivi per cui le vittime si sono immolate.

Nel gioco del “chi ha ragione e chi ha torto” si perde di vista il problema, e le possibili soluzioni diventano oggetto di fantapolitica.

Dobbiamo aver ben presente che il Tibet è troppo piccolo e poco importante per influenzare lo scenario politico mondiale. Per anni è stato usato come prova della crudeltà comunista, e quindi non conveniva cercare di modificare la sua condizione di minoranza oppressa. Ora la Cina è troppo influente sul piano finanziario, e quindi non conviene irritarla affrontando la questione tibetana.

Intanto la realtà socio-economica del Tibet, dove vivono sette milioni di cinesi contro quattro milioni di tibetani, è già cambiata in maniera irreversibile. I progetti di urbanizzazione hanno creato vere e proprie città, con relativi palazzi in cemento, là dove prima si trovavano piccoli villaggi con le tipiche casette tibetane. L’energia elettrica ha sostituito le lampade a burro ed ha permesso l’insediamento di attività industriali e commerciali su larga scala. Una ferrovia di oltre mille chilometri collega Lhasa con l’entroterra cinese. Il Tibet può essere attraversato in auto da oriente ad occidente e tra breve un autostrada arriverà all’Everest.

E’ uno scempio? Allora non andiamoci.

Era inevitabile, perché questi sono i segni del progresso? Allora cerchiamo di fare in modo che di questo progresso i tibetani siano i beneficiari anziché le vittime.

E lo potranno essere soltanto quando il rapporto con la loro terra sarà nuovamente vissuto con serenità.

Oggi i tibetani si sentono colonizzati e temono di perdere la loro identità etnica, ma questo è già successo. In tibet i giovani hanno il cellulare, usano il computer, studiano il cinese e si devono confrontare con gli usi e i costumi cinesi. Di quale cultura saranno portatori?

Forse un giorno la storia dirà che, oltre il confine, ad insidiare i tibetani privati della propria autonomia, c’era una sconosciuta divinità terrifica: la modernità. E che nel “paese delle nevi” ad aspettare i cinesi, che stanno riscoprendo a migliaia il buddhismo, c’era una rinnegata qualità pacifica: la buddhità.

Allora, come è già avvenuto in altri paesi, che dopo averli distrutti nel nome della rivoluzione si sono poi impegnati a recuperare i valori del passato, saranno gli stessi cinesi a voler preservare la tradizione tibetana. Sempre che non sia troppo tardi.

E’ da sprovveduti pretendere una ormai impossibile indipendenza del Tibet (cosa che Sua Santità il Dalai Lama ha già rinunciato a chiedere da tempo), ma è giusto rivendicare una reale autonomia religiosa ed il riconoscimento di una tradizione che si è formata in secoli di storia.

Ciò può avvenire soltanto attraverso un negoziato. Non con la violenza ma con l’accordo, con la pazienza e la perseveranza.

Il mondo non deve abbandonare i tibetani. Ma non è certo con i cortei, con i sit-in e con gli scontri davanti alle ambasciate cinesi che si deve affrontare questa situazione.

Se veramente si vuole dare un segnale forte, dimostrare una vera volontà di cooperazione, aiutare a mediare, questo è il momento: le Nazioni Unite si mobilitino per una pacifica soluzione della vertenza. L’Europa dia il suo appoggio.

Da più parti si chiede di fare pressione sulla Cina perché siano rispettati i diritti umani. Nessuno è in grado di fare concrete pressioni su questo colosso economico, destinato a diventare in pochi anni la maggiore potenza mondiale, ma la politica del dialogo ed il solerte monitoraggio nei confronti di una nazione che si risveglia alla civiltà, può dare positivi risultati per il futuro non solo del Tibet ma dell’intero pianeta. E’ in questa prospettiva che i Governi dei Paesi democratici devono aiutare la Cina ad affrontare nel modo più consono il suo inarrestabile processo di democratizzazione.

NON BOICOTTARE LE OLIMPIADI

La realtà della situazione tibetana doveva essere ben
presente ai membri del Comitato Olimpico Internazionale che anni fa hanno assegnato alla Cina l’organizzazione dei Giochi Olimpici 2008.

Dire che ci si aspettava che questa concessione modificasse in un colpo solo la politica cinese sui diritti umani, vuol dire non tenere conto della gradualità con cui sono sempre avvenute nel mondo le trasformazioni sociali.

Per comprendere le ragioni che porteranno allo svolgimento delle Olimpiadi, indipendentemente da ciò che oggi avviene in Tibet, basta pensare ai trentotto miliardi di dollari spesi per l’organizzazione, alle cifre da capogiro versate dagli sponsor internazionali (quasi tutti occidentali) , agli impegni presi dalle maggiori emittenti televisive del globo, e soprattutto agli enormi interessi economici che gravitano intorno ad un paese con centinaia di migliaia di individui che si stanno aprendo ai consumi di massa e al capitalismo.

Fermare le Olimpiadi è dunque impossibile, boicottarle sarebbe un grave errore.

Non dobbiamo dimenticare che 10.000 atleti di 202 paesi hanno speso per anni denaro, tempo ed energie in vista di questo avvenimento che rappresenta per tutti
il coronamento di un sogno.

Ma soprattutto dobbiamo considerare le Olimpiadi come una grande festa dello sport e dell’amicizia fra i popoli, che può aprire la mente e il cuore del popolo
cinese e dei suoi reggenti.

Nate come semplice confronto sportivo, le Olimpiadi, con il loro forte peso mediatico, sono oggi diventate il termometro dello stato politico, economico e atletico della società umana e c’è da augurarsi che i princìpi di giustizia, lealtà e l' eguaglianza espressi nei giochi, vengano recepiti dalla Cina non soltanto per ragioni di immagine ma anche come esempio da seguire sulla via della civiltà.

La fiaccola olimpica attraverserà prossimamente un Tibet sconvolto dai recenti avvenimenti: speriamo che la sua luce possa portare a Pechino un messaggio di
fratellanza e di rispetto per l’altro che anche i cinesi sappiano fare proprio.

La storia delle Olimpiadi è costellata di iniziative prese da singoli atleti contro la violazione dei diritti umani in certi paesi oppressi.

Non sarebbe male se, anziché boicottare le Olimpiadi o manifestare contro la Cina, gli atleti presenti trovassero, tutti insieme, il modo di testimoniare con un gesto comune, nella giornata di chiusura, quella convinta adesione ai valori di libertà e di pace di cui i Giochi Olimpici sono portatori sin dalle origini.

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Make a gift to those who needs it

This is not a review. This is a message I want to pass to all you. Maybe we can help those who really needs help and give them a possibility to survive with our attention. I really believe in it.


Give a farmer a llama -$45

For families in Hurungwe, Zimbabwe, a goat will produce milk to trade with other people and the goat’s first kids will be passed on to other families and help them too. -$17

Gift meal for 70 children in Battambang City, Cambodia -$12

Gift a scholarship that will pay for school supplies and healthcare, allowing a child to go back to school. -$28

Provide vaccinations against common childhood diseases. 2 children -$20

There are many other gifts you can choose.

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