Change the World in Your Pajamas

We received the best email from Mike Bright, who runs a website called Help From Home.  Since January 2009, the site has provided resources for commitment-free volunteer opportunities that can be done from the comfort of a your home. Almost all of the actions listed on the site cost nothing or very little to complete and take no more than 30 minutes to accomplish. Some can even be performed in under 10 seconds without getting out of your pajamas!

The site is operated from a purely altruistic basis with no intention of making or soliciting money. Mike's single mission is to change people's mindset by enabling them to see that volunteering for worthy causes can actually be conducted from within their own house, rather than the more traditional approach of joining a group of people at a certain place and a certain time to perform actions that benefit others. He says, "Most of us spend a lot of time in our own home, where potentially some of that time could be devoted over to helping charities or worthy causes. If people were able to donate between 10 to 30 minutes of their time to such endeavours on a one-off, daily, weekly or monthly basis, just think how much of an impact collectively it would make into the goals and aims of initiatives that are attempting to make the world a better place to live in."

On his site there is an Action Tracker, that records all of the volunteer efforts people have made. They also have a leaflet you can download, print and distribute to help spread the word about this wonderful organization.