Results

Dear all donors

Thank you very much for donating into my fund raising.

Please find a video to the results

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtA9yFXPdTc

Best,

Sarahi

Last week

Hello to everybody!

I am writing with just one week to go before the end of this fundraising.

I would like to thank all my friends and donors for making an effort and supporting me and my country.

I am sure that a better education leads to better societies and ultimately to a better world. I promise that for me, this is not the end and I will keep looking for opportunities to help.

Ultimately, what and how much we give are not as important as the mere action of giving.

Many thanks and I hope you are looking forward to next week's results of this fun fundraiser.

Sarahi

Rules for the last days

I have received some comments from some of my friends. So to make the rules for the last days and the deadline clear for everybody here are a few points:

1. I am not going to donate any money counting from the posting of this entry. That means I cannot influence the final desicion. It is all up to you!

2. Starting on August 7th, a week before the deadline, I will stop updating the statistics of the donations and remove them from the blog. I want to avoid that people wait until the very last moment to change the result with their donation. Donate freely and let this competition be fair!

3. I will receive donations the whole August 14th. The donations/votes will be counted on Monday 15th under the supervision of my PhD supervisor, Dr. Falk Warnecke.

On August 15th a video will be published with the final result.

I am very excited!!!!

UNICEF webpage link update and translation

This is an update for the link to UNICEF

https://donaunicef.org.mx/donar.php

It seems that the old link is not taking unique donations, so please use this one :)

To help you with the spanish

Click Donacion Unica (Which means one time donation)

Write down the amount of PESOS that you want to donate

Then Personal data

Sex M (male) F (female)

Nombres - Names

Apellidos - Last name

Calle y numero - Street and number

Colonia - Neighborhood (just write a diagonal line)

Ciudad - City

Estado - Estate (only applies if you are in Mexico)

CP - zip code

Pais - Country

Fecha de nacimiento - Birthdate

Telefono casa - Phone number

Telefono officina - Office phone number

Correo electronico - Email

que lo motivo a donar - What motivated you to donate (pick "invitacion de algun amigo")

Card data

Tipo de tarjeta - Kind of card

Debit o credito - Debit or credit

Numero de tarjeta - Card number

Codigo de seguridad - Security number

Fecha de vencimiento - Valid until

Banco emisor - Bank (pick "no aplica" for banks outside of Mexico)

Do you wish to have a receipt?

(only aplies if you live in Mexico, so click no)

And accept the terms and conditions of UNICEF

Enviar - Send

To all my international donators

Please remember that Mexico UNICEF webpage takes the donations in mexican pesos

Currently

1 Euro = 16.98 mexican pesos

1 Dollar = 11.8 mexican pesos

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Por favor recuerden que la pagina de UNICEF Mexico toma los donativos en pesos mexicanos

Al momento

1 Euro = 16.98 pesos mexicanos

1 Dollar = 11.8 pesos mexicanos

The movie

The problem

As of August 2010, the drug war had violently killed around 35,000 people throughout Mexico. But the war was not over in August 2010. Mexican citizens continue to suffer the insecurity and violence that this war brings with it, day after day.

It is not only the mafia that suffers. A video taken from a kindergarden has been circulating the internet since last week.

This video shows first the news of 5 people killed and then a video taken by a kinder garden teacher instructing the kids to keep their heads on the ground while the shutting was taking place outside.

Honestly, the video broke my heart as I watched it. I think no country or kid deserves what is happening in Mexico.

As mexican, I feel powerless against the situation, and my only hope is that these kids grow up to take better choices.