I'm sure everyone has heard about the disaster in Japan. There are a few ways you can help right from the comfort of your own home.
I'm sure everyone has heard about the disaster in Japan. There are a few ways you can help right from the comfort of your own home.
You can text
REDCROSS to 90999 to Give $10 to Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami relief. This will be added to your bill at the end of the month, so it isn't necessarily the best way to donate, but it is the easiest. You can also
donate by visiting the RED CROSS website.
Say you donate what you can, but still want to help more? YouTube star Nigahiga took to the streets with a couple friends to get people to "Honk for Japan." For every honk, he would donate $10 to Red Cross. After an hour, he had gotten enough honks for $600, and immediately donated it. In addition to that, he created a video of his experience and for every 1,000,000 views he'll donate another $600+ to Red Cross. While he could just donate the money without the video and views, he has a good reason why he chose to go about it this.
Here's what he had to say:
People keep saying "why don't you just donate the money instead of trying to get people to view it?" My biggest strength right now is that I'm fortunate enough to have a following. The purpose of this video was not only to support Japan myself, but to encourage others as well. I could have easily donated the money and not made a video about it, but I think its a lot more important to get support from all over the world. I personally can't donate a million dollars, but if millions of people watch this and decide to chip in, it is possible... I'm just trying to help in the best way that I can.
Money Donated so far: $1925
3/14 - $600 (honk!)
3/16 - $650 (1 million views)
3/17 - $675 (2 million views)
Watch the video below to add to the view count:
