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From 19 to 26 August ChangeTip and DirectRelief gather bitcoin donations to buy vitamins for pregnant women in Africa.

DirectRelief announced the campaign on their website:

“From August 19 to August 26, Direct Relief and ChangeTip are teaming up to provide 2,000 expecting mothers in Liberia and Sierra Leone prenatal vitamins. $5 or 0.02 BTC provides one bottle of prenatal vitamins for one safe pregnancy.”

The vitamins will help African women to cope with the problems during pregnancy. According to DirectRelief, every two minutes one woman in Africa dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications.

“Micronutrient deficiencies are a leading cause,” says the organisation.

ChangeTip users can donate money to the campaign via Twitter.

“You can donate via Twitter using the following syntax in your tweet:@ChangeTip, send $5 to @DirectRelief for #OneSafePregnancy.”

This is not the first fundraising campaign that targets bitcoin audience. After the disastrous flood in Tbilisi, a bitcoin company BitFury organised a fundraising campaign to help the victims. Users donated $64,000 in bitcoin digital currency to the special fund.

Two-thirds of the money was moved to a special account created by the Tbilisi City Council to help the flood victims. The rest of the money was divided between the zoo and a dog shelter located in the capital of Georgia that suffered a great damage from the flood.

 

Roman Korizky