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Scary!!  A video of ME!  I’m kind of nervous to post this video because that means you get to see the REAL me!  But it is so worth it!  Please watch this video that summarizes the Reading & Blogging for Darfur campaign that will be taking place on this blog during December.  And yes, that’ s me.  Yikes!

If you would like to get involved (and seriously, why wouldn’t you?!) then please visit this post for all of the details on what you can do to help.

I promised that I would give a “What If” scenario.  So what about my commitment?  I have more than 20,000 visitors to my blog a month, let’s say just the tiniest fraction see that button that says Darfur on that and click over because they are curious and see what’s going on and decide to get involved then that would be cool.

In addition, there are hundreds of bloggers (you don’t need a blog to participate though) out there.  At least more than 200 out there know that I exist.  If 200 blogs were to post about this campaign and put the button in their sidebar, then I will donate about $100.  Say I post anywhere from 40-50 posts this next month and receive about 30 comments per post then that is another $150 raised.  If I have at least 100 people read a book or watch a video about Darfur that’s another $50.  If I have half of those write a review on their blog that’s another $50.  Just think how many people will actually learn about the genocide in Darfur, if so many people are blogging about it, reading about it, telling their friends and family about it.

If you choose to sponsor me in my reading and blogging at a penny per page, .50 cents per post or both then here is what you may be able to expect.  Of course, if you feel like you can only contribute so much, then decide on that number and don’t feel like you need to give as much as I “read.”  Okay, so I’ve been collecting books that I would like to read this much.  They consist of Fiction, Non-fiction, Young Adult, and Middle Readers.  Basically a wide variety.  All totaled that equals about 10,000 pages (YIKES!).  If I were my some miracle where I don’t have to sleep for the next month and manage to read it all, then that is about $100 if you sponsor me for a penny a page.  More realistically, I’m thinking I’ll be very lucky to read half of that, so 5,000 pages is about $50.  There are thirty days in September and I’m hoping to post at least once a day, maybe two.  At fifty cents a post, that is about $15-$30.  If I have 25 people sponsor me, we would raise about $2,000.  If I have 50 that would be about $4,000.

Hmm . . . I hope I did the calculations right.  Of course, I have no idea how everything will pan out.  Mainly, I really, really want people to learn something about the genocide.  How can we help when we don’t even know what the problem is?

So tell everybody you know!  Get involved on whatever level you can.  There are some great prizes.  So great in fact, that it’s well worth getting involved just to qualify for them.  And if you would like to contribute some prizes please email me at natasha (at) mawbooks (dot) com.

Everything that you need to know is here.  It all starts tomorrow!

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