WE HAVE MOVED..We are no longer accepting membership here. Follow us to SPRUZ ->

It’s nearing the end of June … mind boggling how fast time goes. We’d like to take this opportunity to reach out to each and every one of you and tell you how much we appreciate your membership, your involvement and all the support we’ve received. We’re looking forward to continuing our quest to make a difference to world famine, one person at a time, one step at a time with as much awareness and funding as we can generate.

As you may, or may not know, the program we’ve used from the beginning is called NING. It was offered to users as a free website for social networking. It’s served us well and we thank the people at NING for their platform and support. Earlier in the year, NING made an announcement that effective July 15, 2010, they would no longer offer this platform for free. Since our existence is about generating funds, every cent that comes in is assigned to charity. We don’t have a float or a wonderful benefactor; we just plug away, one day at a time and often into the early hours of the morning (in all time zones). We’ve had to make a decision. We have decided to move our network to another platform called Spruz.

We have enjoyed our time with you here at BloggerAid on NING. Over the past year we have gathered together to share our thoughts and along the way enjoyed a sense of community and friendship while all the while raising funds and awareness for those in need.

Join us in our new home at http://bloggeraid.spruz.com where we will continue to make lasting friendships and join together as a community to raise awareness. As food bloggers who understands the importance of food more than we do.

Our new home has been constructed and as always we will be be looking for new ways to improve and make our community stronger. It looks a little different but like a good bottle of wine it will improve with age. Val has been working long hours migrating information from one site to the other. If you have suggestions, willingness to help with the site or any comments, please, don’t hesitate to leave them for us or join the "Think Tank" where we can have open discussions collectively.

To make this migration easier please follow the link on the left hand side bar that says "We are Moving". We no longer accept membership or content on this NING site.

See you there:D

Val and Giz
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The members of BloggerAid-Changing the Face of Famine have published a cookbook where 100% of the proceeds target children and education through the World Food Programme called School Meals. Purchases can be made by clicking here .

The highly successful BloggerAid-Changing the Face of Famine Cookbook continues to be available through the Create Space e-store. The e-store is a direct connection of Amazon. In answer to your questions the book cannot be found directly on the Amazon.com site. We have chosen to deal exclusively with Create Space where our children in the School Meals Programme with benefit the most!!!The children need our support!!!

Simply copy and paste the photo of the cover above with this code.

https://www.createspace.com/3405882

Paste it into an HTML in your side bar of your blog and you are on a role!

To purchase your copy follow the link above or in the left hand side bar here on the HOME page which will take you directly to the e-store. This is also an excellent place to direct your fellow bloggers, family members and friends to add this professional cookbook to their collections. The money raised goes directly to the WFP account and the School Meals Programme on site. Let's keep the momentum going. Tell your friends, who will tell 2 friends, who will tell 2 friends......

Val and Giz


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View and Review

We’re more than excited to share the newest effort of BloggerAid…Changing the Face of Famine! With the expert help and many diligent hours of behind the scene energy of Ruth Daniels of Once Upon a Feast, we are proud to announce View and Review.

Agreements have been reached to partner cookbook publishers with BloggerAid…Changing the Face of Famine to offer our members participation in book and product reviews. What does this mean?

Read more....

I’m another blogging South African - passionate about social media
and social activism. As I see it, the two go well hand-in-hand. For
the last year and a half I’ve worked for the United Nations World Food Programme based at the headquarters in Rome.

I’m fortunate enough to love my job – no,really. Why? As the online marketing manager, my job combines my two passions. I get to spend hours every day, helping to feed people who desperately need it by using online tools like Twitter, Facebook and You Tube to raise awareness and funds… and encouraging others to do the same. Social media has been revolutionary by giving enormous power to the person on the street. Whereas in the past, traditional media held the reins on deciding what the masses talked about (and knew about), now the average person is often dictating what the media covers. How we use that power will be
really telling.

For the first time in history there are one billion
people hungry in the world –at the same time there are one billion
people online in the world. If every one of us online sent one
email, or one tweet, or donated just 25cents a day – the awareness
and funds generated could be enough to end world hunger! One way
to be part of the solution is using the power of words by collaborating
and joining other bloggers, much as the members of BloggerAid-Changing the Face of Famine already do.

Recently WFP followed your lead and set up Bloggers Against Hunger We try to provide tool
kits for blogging about hunger issues, provide events to blog
around and help to promote the posts written to others. (In fact,
many BloggerAid -Changing the Face of Famine members are helping us out already.

We’re really grateful for all the support the good people of BACFF have
given through all the crises with Haiti being the most recent.
When I start my working day at 8am every morning, I try to keep in
mind the number of people that will be waking up too and starting
the day on an empty stomach. And I have the power to make a
difference.