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Update 1/1:

We did it! Thanks to the participation and generosity of the bitcoin community, we not only met but exceeded our goal. With the matching contributions from ChangeTip, we raised $4,850.06, which is approximately 2,487 meals delivered!

THANK YOU!

Everyone, we need your help ​today!​

We only have until midnight EST on ​​New Year’s Eve​ to help a great charity we are supporting, Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission, of Philadelphia, PA, USA. (@PhillyHomeless on Twitter)

In October, I wrote an article about bitcoin in my country. Since then, I've found a lot of ways to get the most out of it. I was going to write an article about these things, until one thing stopped me — the day I couldn't log in to ChangeTip.

The leading non-profit organization, Children of Bellevue, devotes its efforts to providing companionship, support, and smiles to the pediatric patients of New York City’s Bellevue Hospital. The founders of Tipping Point will donate gifts to children from the ages of 6 months to 17 years. Tipping Point invites you to help make the holidays happier for needy children in the hospital.

Bitcoin can be a boon towards charity and causes, especially for a growing country like India. I've had the opportunity to extend the ChangeCup movement and bring it from New York City into India, in a vision to create a unified solution for noble causes. ​

​​This is the first article in the new column Tipping Point​, ​devoted to exploring the positive impact of micro-donations on humanitarian and charitable causes around the world.

Written and illustrated by guest author Ahmad al-Hemmaly

Salam (peace) upon you all.

I'm Ahmad al-hemmally, known on the Internet as @ahmadmanga.

It's a known fact that I'm Libyan, and I believe Libya needs Bitcoin. It's a digital, global, and transparent currency. The people at the Africoin Report asked me to write about the state of Bitcoin in my country. I hope this article will be enlightening.

Written by guest authors: Mamadu Sallieu Barrie, Abubakar Mansaray, and Abdulrahman Jalloh

We are three young and energetic youths striving hard to make a change in our country. We are not yet university students, but on the verge of enrolling (depending on our performance) in the just concluded West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). We first encountered bitcoin in January 2015 through a friend, who later became a brother, called Chernoh Saeed Sow.

I live in a community called Old Wharf under the Wellington section, the eastern part of Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. My family and I have lived in this community for a good six years since we migrated from Kenema, the Eastern Province, in 2009.

I was born in Kenema in 1992, during the rebel war. Kenema was among the towns that the rebels captured from early 1997 to 2000. They killed thousands and destroyed properties, which led to the backwardness of the people there and the country as a whole. ...

My trip to Kenema was another dream come true. I was eager to return back to my childhood town that I left in 2009 when I was 17. I was welcomed there like a prince, due to my hard work. People promoted my visit via social media, and I felt at home again. I brought them news of a great technology that will change the mindsets of many in the future.… The good news was bitcoin.

This is the first article in the Africoin Report, which was founded for all Africans and people around the world who are interested in Bitcoin — both those already in the community and newcomers. The forum on WhatsApp has already benefited many beginners and has grown bigger than expected.

We plan to use this blog as channel for education about the cryptocurrency. I created the Africoin Report to invite all 'Bitcoin gurus' to mingle and share ideas with us in a forum for online teaching and learning.

In part one, I interviewed Daniel Modell (dmnyc) about the ChangeCup project he started, using ChangeTip and Bitcoin to buy coffee and food for the homeless during the cold winter in NYC.

When I asked him whether he had anything else he wanted to share during the interview, he said he has been corresponding with a young man named Chero.