Everything About Coins For Change 2008

Coins for Change 2008

Waddle around and make a difference

Coins For Change gives kids who play Club Penguin a chance to donate their virtual coins to make a difference in the real world.

From December 12 – 22, kids can click on a donation booth in Club Penguin, choose a cause, and donate their virtual coins. On December 25th, Club Penguin will count up the votes, and New Horizon Foundation (created by the founders of Club Penguin) will make a $1 million donation, split between the causes, according to how the kids vote.

Kids can choose these causes:

KIDS WITHOUT PARENTS AND KIDS WHO HAVE BEEN HURT BY WAR
In partnership with Partners in the Horn of Africa, the donation will help to offer education, play therapy, and structured activities for kids who have been orphaned by AIDS in Ethiopia.

In partnership with War Child, the donation will also help kids who have been affected by war by supporting education, children’s rights efforts, and poverty reduction in Georgia, Afghanistan and Northern Uganda.

KIDS WHO ARE SICK
In partnership with Partners in Health, the donation will help children in some of the world’s poorest communities to receive the medical care they need in Haiti and Rwanda.

KIDS WHO ARE POOR AND WHO CAN’T GO TO SCHOOL
In partnership with Free the Children, the donation will help communities to build schools and provide education to impoverished kids around the world in India, Ecuador and rural China.