“when i hate being myself, when i just want disappear forever, i open one door and there i was in your heart. If you open that door and come in, i’ll be waiting for you there, it’s okay to believe, i’ll comfort you magic shop .” -magic shop
bangtan helped me a lot, i am very grateful to have them in my life
Another year, another thing you didn’t know St Valentine was the patron Saint of: plague
Obviously everyone is suffering from a global pandemic right now but by supporting Unicef we could help deliver 2 billion Covid-19 vaccines and 500 million tests and treatment for health workers and the most high risk people on the planet.
Even small donations help but share if you can’t. Donation and more information in the link here.
UNICEF supports health, nutrition, HIV prevention, education, safe drinking water, sanitation and protection for children and families caught in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. We call on all sides to recommit to the ceasefire.
I wanted to share this for awesome apps/programms with you:
1. Sleep Better
- you can tell this app when you have to wake up in the morning & then tell it that you’ll go to sleep. the app will wake you up, when your body is the out of the deep sleep!
2. To Bed
- you can tell this app when you need to get up in the next morning, and it tells you when to go to sleep
3. Forest
- I’m sure you already heared of this, this app makes you stay focused on work or let’s you give a mobile free time with friends
4. Tap Unicef
- This website (bookmark it on your phone) makes you stay focused & does good! For every 15 minutes you don’t touch your phone will one kid get a glass of water donated!
Over the course of writing and publishing on Tumblr, I’m very thankful for your boundless support and encouragement. Now my goal in terms of scale has been achieved, it’s time to roll out my biggest dream when I first started this blog. So I have a Tip Jar, and now I’m publicly making an announcement about it!
Since 'read and chill’ is a non-profit blog, all proceeds will go to charity! There are 2 organizations that I really want to contribute to for the first half of 2022:
->30% of your donations will go to UNICEF Vietnam in protecting children’s rights in Vietnam, including education and safety.
->70% of your donations will go to Rethink Mental Illnessforequality, rights, fair treatment, and maximum quality of life for all those affected by mental illness, their carers, family, and friends.
I will transfer your contributions by June 30th, 2022. If you would like to warm my heart AND contribute for donation, please visit my Tip Jar via Ko-fi! Let’s work together for a better world!
P.S. You can help me hone my Math skills by adding a note if you solely want to donate to 1 organization! Suggest other organizations for the second semester of 2022!
Thank you for your support!
'read and chill’s Donation Box is still open! Come and support!
Over the course of writing and publishing on Tumblr, I’m very thankful for your boundless support and encouragement. Now my goal in terms of scale has been achieved, it’s time to roll out my biggest dream when I first started this blog. So I have a Tip Jar, and now I’m publicly making an announcement about it!
Since 'read and chill’ is a non-profit blog, all proceeds will go to charity! There are 2 organizations that I really want to contribute to for the first half of 2022:
->30% of your donations will go to UNICEF Vietnam in protecting children’s rights in Vietnam, including education and safety.
->70% of your donations will go to Rethink Mental Illnessforequality, rights, fair treatment, and maximum quality of life for all those affected by mental illness, their carers, family, and friends.
I will transfer your contributions by June 30th, 2022. If you would like to warm my heart AND contribute for donation, please visit my Tip Jar via Ko-fi! Let’s work together for a better world!
P.S. You can help me hone my Math skills by adding a note if you solely want to donate to 1 organization! Suggest other organizations for the second semester of 2022!
Female genital mutilation or cutting isn’t something anyone likes to talk about. It’s sick, it’s twisted, and it happens to extremely young girls (even girls under age 5). By 2030, it’s estimated that 86 million more young girls are going to experience some form of it. How much longer are we going to ignore this?
Last week, UN official Navi Pillay emphasized the importance of efforts to stop FGM, calling it a “form of gender-based discrimination and violence” and violations to the rights to physical and mental integrity, the right to be free from torture, the rights of the child, the right to health, and the right to life, in some cases. “It generates profoundly damaging, irreversible and life-long physical damage, she added.
Defined as "all procedures involving partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons,” FGM is practiced, primarily in Africa, for multiple, while illogical, reasons. It is intended to reduce a woman’s sexual desire and protect her virginity, for ‘hygiene,’ or for religious reasons (although FGM predates Islam). The most common reason, though, is that everyone in so-in-so’s village did it, so so-and-so does it to his daughter too.
There’s good news, though: it’s decreasing in prevalence. “But FGM can be eradicated, and there are encouraging signs of this at national, regional and international level,” Pillay said. Many countries have adopted legislation and policies to end it, she continued, and “where laws have been accompanied by culturally sensitive education and public outreach, the practice has declined.” According to the UN, FGM declined 5% between 2005 and 2010.
However, if it continues at it’s 1% decay rate, even by 2074 only half of the current prevalence will be eliminated.
The best way to fight it is with awareness: talk to your family and friends, share stories like this on social media, and be a voice in your community for our sisters across the globe who have been silenced.
Keeley’s birthday is approaching again (10th February) and we would like to continue the tradition of organising a charity campaign for UNICEF on her behalf.
Helping children in need is a matter that is close to her heart. She has supported the organisation since 2012 and has been an ambassador since 2016. So, what better way to make her happy and make a difference than to donate to UNICEF? Especially now when families may need more help than ever all round the world.
Any donation counts and helps to contribute to the cause.
Let’s get together again and show our support to Keeley and the children. Please join us at https://gofund.me/87737d5b
Passion and Serenity is very pleased to announce that the donation to UNICEF was made last night and totaled $1,673!
Thank you so much to our contributors, production team, and supporters! Much like our zine-turned-compendium, this amount turned out to be much larger than we ever expected, and we are so grateful.
While we are no longer selling any copies of the zine, the Etsy store with leftover merch will remain open for the time being. Any future purchases will also be donated to UNICEF.
Ewan and Liam are both longtime supporters of UNICEF. The organization was founded 75 years ago and works in over 190 countries and territories to protect the rights of every child. They are currently on the ground in Eastern Ukraine delivering aid to hundreds of thousands of children and families. Read about their efforts here.
