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Unsip for Child’s i Foundation

Bernadette — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:30:15 +0000

Unsip has joined forces with the Child’s i Foundation for the month of November. Together we are trying to raise a target amount of £400 which will cover the cost of medical bills for one month for up to 25 children in the care of the team at the Malaika Babies home in Uganda.
That target means we need to unsip at least 200 cups of coffee during November.
We’d really love you to get involved by downloading the free Unsip iphone app from iTunes and making a commitment to donate all the proceeds from your November unsipped drinks direct to Child’s i Foundation.
Thanks so much for your support.

£100 pays for a month’s wages for one of our carers, who provide love, attention and time making sure all the children receive individual attention.

£200 pays for a qualified nurse to provide the best possible medical care and to oversee the carers on duty.

£400 pays for all medical bills for a month for up to 25 children in our care.

The Unsip iPhone App is here!

Bernadette — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:17:43 +0000

The Unsip App in now available for free from iTunes.

Thanks again to Mitrais for their hard work.

You can now use the Unsip App to tell the world via Twitter and Facebook when you have donated the price of a coffee to your favourite charity.

Our totaliser on the home page of this website will provide updates as you Unsip.
Go to it!

Photo by Yuktaka Tsutano

The virtuous domino effect

Bernadette — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:13:36 +0000

Reading a post today from Kevin Roberts where he talks about the impact of the ‘Do One Thing’ approach to sustainability, his description of the “virtuous domino effect” also seemed a good fit for Unsip.
Interestingly at the end of 2009 his company Saatchi and Saatchi’s Hudson Street New York agency and HQ distributed free coffee mugs to their staff and began offering free morning coffee. As a result, in the first quarter of 2010 alone the office reduced the number of paper cups and lids used by 9,005, and saved $4,237 in the process.

They are on track to save almost $17,000 and 36,000 paper cups this year alone.
A small change making a BIG difference.

Photo by DeusX

Happy Unsip Day

Bernadette — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:48:37 +0000

Happy Unsip Day!

Keep thinking about the difference you can make for the price of a coffee.

Books for children who don’t have any.

Clean water for communities with none.

A loving carer to abandoned babies.

Simple hearing tests for babies.

In fact let’s stop thinking about the difference we can make and start ‘making something good happen’ like Seth did today.

Photo by Temari

The gift of a future

Bernadette — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:55:07 +0000

YKIP foundation is improving the lives people in Bali through grassroots Health and Education Projects.
The foundation provides simple and cost effective programs and solutions to improve the health of both adults and children.

For tiny sums of money Ykip provides support to hearing impaired children with hearing loss detection programs and by providing hearing aids to children who desperately need them.

There is no universal hearing screening at birth in Bali and there are many hearing impaired children who could benefit from hearing aids. Children who do not hear well enough to develop language before the age of 6 or 7, will probably never be able to do so.

The impact on the future of many children through these programs is huge.
These children’s lives are transformed as they are enabled to communicate, become educated and go on to live independent lives.

Your $3 coffee will pay for three babies to be tested for hearing loss at birth.

Donate your unsipped coffee to Ykip.

Unsip iPhone App

Bernadette — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:00:56 +0000

Our friends at Mitrais are working hard to develop a cool iPhone App for us.

The App will be free to download and will update the Unsip website, your Facebook page and Twitter status when you’ve ‘unsipped’ and ‘made something good happen’!

It will be a great way of showing the impact we are making together.

We can’t thank David, Erwin and their development team enough for helping us to make a dent in the universe.

Photo by Jorge Quniteros

But I don’t drink coffee!

Bernadette — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:20:33 +0000

So perhaps you don’t drink coffee?

Your body is a temple and you wouldn’t touch the stuff!

Perhaps you drink green tea, bottled water or a great glass of wine?

The point is you don’t HAVE to drink coffee to get involved in the Unsip movement and to ‘make something good happen’.

You just need to commit to the idea that $3 or the equivalent in pounds, pence, lira, euros or whatever is a tiny amount that can positively impact on someone’s life somewhere in the world.

We are talking about providing carers for orphans, books for children and water for communities.

All for the price of a Perrier!

Photo by Photos8

Make a dent in the universe

Bernadette — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:38:26 +0000

Cartoonist and author Hugh MacLeod was inspired to create this ‘Dent’ cartoon by the mantra of Steve Jobs;

“Let’s make a dent in the universe”.

It’s a great sentiment that sums up the Unsip ‘Why’ pretty neatly.

As individuals we have the power to make small dents and make good things happen.

Collectively we can move mountains……. for the price of a coffee.

Huge thanks to Hugh at gapingvoid for allowing us to use his cartoon here.

Our coffee love affair

Bernadette — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:00:21 +0000

Can you believe that we consume 400 billion cups of coffee every year?

In the USA alone 400 million cups of coffee are downed every day!

That’s 146 billion cups a year.

Starbucks is on track to generate more than $7 billion in 2010 purely from selling beverages, which accounts for about 60% of the comapny’s revenue.
And I haven’t even mentioned Italy yet. I’m sure you get the picture.

We’re spending A LOT of money buying coffee.
It is expected that by 2012 coffee sales in the USA will grow to $59 billion!

Imagine the change we could create if we could funnel just a tiny amount of that money to people making a difference.

We’re not asking you to stop having your coffee experience every day. We’re asking you to start by giving up just one and telling a friend who will join you. Then they’ll tell their friends, their family and their Facebook and Twitter networks.

And before we know it we will have made something extraordinary happen.

Photo by egor

Giving love and more

Bernadette — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:56:41 +0000

Child’s i Foundation is a charity working at grassroots level to help solve the problem of baby abandonment in Uganda, where there are 2 million orphans.

Their work involves setting up a support program to help mothers at risk of abandoning their babies; a transitional home to provide short-term life-saving care to abandoned babies; and a family placement program to ensure every child grows up in a loving family.

The charity was founded by former TV producer Lucy Buck who experienced the pain of having a baby boy die in her arms when she was volunteering at a babies home in Kampala. This drove Lucy to quit her job, move back with her parents and work full time to get Childs i off the ground.

Following two years of hard work the Malakia Babies Home opened it’s doors in May 2010 and is already providing a loving home to nine (at last count) beautiful babies. Child’s i Foundation has used the power of social networks like Facebook, Twitter and You Tube to reach a wider audience and gain the much need support of money, time and love.

So how can the cost of a latte help the amazing work Child’s i Foundation is doing in Uganda?

$3 provides a loving carer for four babies for a whole day!

Find out more about how you can donate the gift of your unsipped coffee to Childs i Foundation.