Writing for Charity/Change/Coffee

This is an alternative to the Facebook page here which is presented in a fairly complicated way (such is Facebook's layout system).

I am asking for pledges for the gruelling struggle that is writing a thesis and I'm doing it on behalf of two causes, listed below, and you can donate to one or both. Think of it along the lines of a sponsored run, but swap running for writing. I am writing about charity and our relationship with those in distant lands whom we hope to help.


Oxfam charity: http://www.justgiving.com/Adam-Hutchings
Zapatista coffee: http://www.gofundme.com/otpss

In 1953 Ramón Rivero walked 80 miles to raise money for the Puerto Rican League Against Cancer. This became the first known charity walkathon in history and has since inspired sponsored fundraising in its many forms - climbing, fasting, running, cycling etc.

I am using my dissertation. Just like climbing, fasting, running, cycling a dissertation is a big struggle, and quite a mountain to climb. Indeed I am sacrificing my summer for this.

I am fundraising for two causes, listed below. Feel free to sponsor one or both, and please leave comments either way. If you don't want to pledge any cash, comments on your thoughts are still welcome.

So sponsor my dissertation and help change the world!

1. Oxfam.
A well known humanitarian international aid non-governmental organisation (NGO), that states that 'We stand against poverty. For humanity.'
For every pound they get, 36p goes to emergency response, 7p to fundraising costs, 10p to support and running costs, 40p to development work, and 7p for campaigning for change (http://www.oxfam.org.uk/donate/how-we-spend-your-money).

Fund this here: http://www.justgiving.com/Adam-Hutchings

2. Zapatista coffee.
Trade with cooperatively run coffee farmers in a Mexican state called Chiapas which is autonomously run by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. The Zapatistas oppose economic globalisation, North American-style Free Trade, and the Mexican state's embrace of capitalism. The Zapatistas synthesise 'traditional Mayan practices with elements of libertarian socialism, anarchism and Marxism' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Liberation).
Your money goes into a pot which, at the end of the 60 days, will be used to purchase an equivalent amount of coffee from the Chiapas co-operative coffee producers.
Your money will go towards the income of the farmers in Zapatista communities, and towards 'the autonomous programs of education, health, and to other social structures.' According to this Wikipedia page, 'the coffee cooperatives operate as a driving force of the Zapatista movememt' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatista_coffee_cooperatives).

Fund this here: http://www.gofundme.com/otpss


Thanks! Comments will help too, almost as much as cash.