Facebook Adds Ebola Chairty Donation Button
Facebook is stepping up its efforts to fight Ebola by adding
a button designed to make it easier for its users to donate to charities
battling the disease. The social media company is also deploying 100 satellite
communication terminals to boost Internet and phone services to affected areas
in West Africa, where the disease has killed nearly 5,000, AP reports.
The programs come on the heels of a $25 million donation
last month by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention toward the Ebola response.
Facebook Inc. says that, over the coming week, its users
will see an option to donate to three nonprofits fighting Ebola. The groups are
the International Medical Corps, the International Federation of Red Cross and
Red Crescent Societies, and Save the Children. Facebook says it chose charities
that work directly on the ground and are able to accept money globally.
Facebook is hoping that its donation button will increase
the money going toward Ebola response efforts. Ebola aid donations have lag
behind large natural disasters such as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines last
year or the earthquake in Haiti four years ago.
"We need to get Ebola under control in the near term so
that it doesn't spread further and become a long term global health crisis that
we end up fighting for decades at large scale, like HIV or polio,"
Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page last month.
Source: juliablaise.com
Source: juliablaise.com
Well Done, Facebook Team!
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