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Connecting Children, One Laptop At A Time Think about all of the ways that you’re connected to the world – your smartphone, your tablet, your laptop or desktop computer, your television. Think about the ways that those devices give you a broader understanding of the world around you, and the ways you use them to educate yourself and fulfill the social aspect of your lives. Now imagine that you didn’t have any of that. Could

The Global Fund for Women “Women’s rights are human rights.” This famous quote comes from Hilary Clinton from her United Nations conference back in 1995. Yet nearly 20 years later, women all around the world are still denied these fundamental rights. Here at ContactsforLess.ca, we support gender equality and believe all human beings on this planet deserve the same fundamental rights. Global Funds for Women is our group of the month and here are a

The Earth Island Institute is one of the coolest non-profit organisations in the world! It provides individual projects with the freedom to develop new initiatives, gives them new ideas and the tools to create them with. Since their founding, in 1982 by legendary environmentalist David R. Brower, they have provided fiscal sponsorship to more than 100 projects around the globe, making our world greener and better, one project at a time. Watch the video below in which

50,000 whales were killed since 1986. That’s almost 5 whales everyday. Murdered for profit over the past 30 years. How is this still a THING? Someone has to do something. Despite the ban on commercial whaling (hunting for commercial profit) in many countries, Japan, Norway, and Iceland still continue to brutally spear our marine friends. The ban was created in 1986 by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) when it became apparent that the whale population