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Location: Alberta Canada
Job: Student
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Table of Contents:
FAQ
Money Found at School
Money Raised for Mission Trip
Money Count Progress
Carlos Blog
News and Updates
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FAQ
What is this charity project about?
It is called the Loose Change Project and the premise is simple: collect $100 worth of each type of Canadian coin for charity. It will add up to $600 Canadian upon completion along with other projects.
Months after this blog was made, I got into two other charity projects being a mission trip to Mexico and my family is sponsoring a child in Peru with a dollar a day.
The Mission Trip to Mexico will take place in April during Spring break where I among other schoolmates will go towards a place in Mexico to help them with various tasks and learn about their culture. I am collecting some spending money and charity money to be sent down to the Mexican children just like I am doing for Guatemala. A portion of any money made from recycling or donations from my school will go towards this. I hope to make a amatuer documentary for this.
A man came into my house and my mother and I decided to sponsor a child in Peru named Carlos who has suffered from malnutrition once and live in poor conditions but at least has some fresh water in his back yard. I'm going to learn from this experience while he gets aid from my family. I'm going to keep a section dedicated to him and will be updated to see how he's doing.
Where will the money go once collected?
I have talked to a teacher at my school who is also the president/volunteer dentist for Kindness in Action which is a volunteer organization dedicated to oral hygiene for people in developing countries and it is decided that I am sending the $600 to students in the country of Guatemala that is located in Central America just East of Southern Mexico.
The $500 I am collecting from mainly recyclable material is coming with me to Mexico to be distributed to an orphanage during the mission trip.
After the previous two are done, any money I get from finding, recycling or donations go towards Carlos for the dollar a day policy.
Why is the project money going towards Guatemala, Mexico and to Carlos?
Despite the economic growth for Guatemala that started in 1996, the year after the end of the Guatemalan civil war, Guatemala remains a developing country struck with rural poverty where 60% of Guatemalan households are below the poverty line with high rates of illiteracy, infant mortality rate and malnutrition.
Mexico suffers the same thing as Guatemala. I am heading to an orphanage where I'm guessing is underfunded and could use some extra cash to go towards education or upgrades/repairs.
As for Carlos, he lives in a house made from adobe with a slate/tile roof. He attends primary school. His school and nearest health facility is 45 minutes away from his house and his family of four uses an open field for a latrine. We are going to pay a dollar a day and this should not be a problem because my two previous projects are near completion.
Where will you get the money?
I will collect the money from whatever sources except the bank because using the bank would be cheating. I will primarily collect the coins by finding whatever money I find in town (I find tons at school) with some help from my friends. I will also add on any loose change I have left from purchasing items and will even trade coins for other coins once I'm done collecting those types of coins. I designed this to be a fun project for myself when it comes to collecting.
As for the mission trip, I'm making my cost to a whole lot lower by participating in various fundraisers.
What can I do to help?
There are a number of sites that you have to click a simple button and it will redirect you to a page full of advertisements that will generate money to pay for things that will help not only Guatemala, but will help other developing nations in need. You can help feed them, you can help them gain literacy, you can help give them child health care and you can help save their rainforests all by a click of a button on each of the sites in the previous links I have given you in this part of the FAQ. Try to click each button once per day and it will make a difference not only for Guatemala, but for other developing nations God wants us to help.
Buying Guatemalan Artisan Crafts will also help the Guatemalan kids and their families. The items were made by Guatemalan children and possibly adults as part of their education that can be purchased by you in order to help them out.
Another way is to join into the charity. Try raising fundraisers that will collect money that will go to schools in Guatemala. You can collect recyclable soft drink containers, you could also collect money from the floors at your school or whatever you want. Try to make the fundraiser fun for you.
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Money Found at School
This section is the amount of money I find at school each month. I have been collecting money since 2004.
2007-2008
September: $3.61
October: $7.98
November: $7.65
December: $8.35
January: $6.98
February: $8.86
March: $4.17
April: $10.05
May: $5.36
June: $7.11
Total: $71.12
2008-2009
September: $45.53
October: $6.03
November: $9.26
December: $6.05
January: $3.56
Total: $70.43
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Money Raised for Mission Trip
For the mission trip to Mexico, I am raising at least $500 to take down to the orphanages down there to spend it on supplies that will benefit. I'm hoping it can be converted to Pesos so it can be spent to buy more school supplies down in Mexico and the money for the supplies will go towards Mexican merchants.
Bonus Money Raised: $500.00
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Money Count Progress
This section of the blog post is for a public record of the collection of the coins. It will be updated every time I collect enough loose change to roll them up into coin rolls. These percentages do not include coins that have yet to be rolled up into a coin roll.
Toonies ($2): 100%
Loonies ($1): 100%
Quarters ($0.25): 100%
Dimes ($0.10): 100%
Nickels ($0.05): 100%
Pennies ($0.01): 100%
Overall: 100%
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Carlos Blog
This part of the blog is dedicated to Carlos to show any progress he is making through this sponsorship program my family has entered.
Currently waiting to hear from him.
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News and Updates
February 10, 2009: I have finally completed the money for Mexico. All I need are many nickles and I'm done completely.
February 6, 2009: After a long hiatus, made a major update regarding information, a new section and extra projects near completion.
October 17, 2008: I have finally completed the pennies and now have only the nickels to deal with. From the looks of it, it's far from over.
September 30, 2008: I have made a personal record of finding the most money at school in a month. I have found money from three different countries this month.
July 26, 2008: I just received a phone call last night from a woman who is in charge of the Rodeo fundraising. Apparently I got three people who want to donate their bottles to my cause. One even has a garage full of bottles that sounds like it could be worth quite a bit. I even changed some more plans but am still collecting the $600 for the Guatemalans.
July 20, 2008: YEEHAW! I just struck Gold! I'm volunteering at a rodeo to help relieve pressure for my mission trip funding and getting bottles for a bonus when I donate. Today I just collected six bags worth of recyclable material. Major profit will come of this!
July 7, 2008: Added additional information about my second fundraising for my mission trip.
June 29, 2008: I have made some major changes and updates in the information and organizing. It's almost done and I hope to complete it by the end of the summer.
June 18, 2008: I have completed my school year with a grand total of $70.99 found in my school for the entire year. Stay tuned for next years because I got a feeling that it will drag on to next school year when I'm in Grade 11.
June 7, 2008: The dimes are complete and now I only have to worry about the Pennies and the Nickels. Hopefully I should get them done over the summer but it will most likely carry on to the next school year.
April 30, 2008: I hit the mother load this month! I found $10.05 at my school, started to bring in money made from recycling by collecting recyclables around my town and I am putting up some more progress charts for these collectings.
January 25, 2008: I have finally finished up the quarters and now I only have three coin types left to do.
December 1, 2007: Ah great, it has been proposed to stop the production of pennies due to production costs. This may make my project harder to do. On the other note, I have added an overall percentage in the money progress section.
October 28, 2007: New minor information concerning currency exchange has been added to the FAQ.
October 20, 2007: Blog has been set up and is awaiting suggestions and comments.
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Below is a picture of the coin rolls. It will be updated every once and a while.

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