Picking Up Pennies For Darfur

January 25th 2007





Today I took the coins I had collected to the post office and changed them for a money order which I have now mailed to Save Darfur, in Washington, D.C. The grand total was $63.16.









Now, this may not be a huge amount of money but if it was collected by 1,000 or 5,000 or maybe 1,000,000 people each year in America, just think of what that amount of money could do to help the starving, displaced people of Darfur?

So, make today the day that you start picking up pennies when you see them on sidewalks and in the malls.

In my experience the best places to find dropped pennies are at shop registers where people are handed their receipts and coins and drop the coins when exiting the store.

I have found many, many coins in the foyer of cinemas too.

In a mall close to where I live there is a 'ski simulator' ride. After it has turned its occupants up side down and round and round they seem to lose coins from their pockets. At the close of the day at the mall, I often scramble under the machine and collect the dropped coins. I have, on occasions, picked up over $1.00 in loose change just from under the machine. Times that by 365 nights of the year and you can see the total growing!!!!

Another great place for finding dropped coins are in noisy music stores such as Virgin Mega Store. I think people drop the coins and cant hear them drop above the noise of the music. But I know they're there and I pick them up for Darfur.

Let me know if you find any special places where people drop pennies and just walk away. Maybe this year more of us can make use of these disguarded coins and make a difference to Darfur.

http://www.savedarfur.org