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I have successfully been able to create my own personalized "End Poverty" t-shirts that I believe will help in advocating and creating awareness for those living in poverty, around the world. Below is the links to some of the shirts and their descriptions:

1. The first shirt is a women's white "end-poverty"t-shirt. It is a women's shirt, that comes in various sizes. Made in USA by American Apparel. It is a body-hugging, close-contoured fit, with a thin fabric. It is a 4.3 oz 100% ultra fined combined ring-spun jersey, and can also be gotten in the color pink.
2. The second t-shirt is a men's black "end poverty" t-shirt. It also comes in various sizes, with a smaller cut, designed to fit tightly. For a looser fit, there are bigger sizes available. It is a 4.3 oz 100% ultra fined combined ring-spun jersey, that can be machine washed cold, and tumble dried cold. It comes in 19 different colors, with only a cost of $34.50 for one.
3. The third "end poverty" t-shirt is a kids sweatshirt by the fashion company Hanes. It is a 7.8 oz 50/50 cotton/polyester fieece. A standard unisex fit that can be worn by both female and male, that is not too tight or too loose, with a fieece-paneled front pocket. It has a hood, but without drawstrings, for the safety of the child, and is also machine washable. It comes in different sizes, labeled by both numbers and letters. 

All of these products ship within 24 hours of order, and has a 30-day money back guarantee. 

The Hunger Project

Founded in 1977, The Hunger Project (THP) is a global, non-profit, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world poverty. The Hunger Project has partnered with grassroots people in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, to develop effective bottom-up strategies, and has developed three critical elements, that when combined, empower people to make rapid progress in overcoming hunger and poverty, including:

• Mobilizing People At The Grassroots Level To Build Self-Reliance: The Hunger Project trains women and men equipping them with the skills, knowledge and methods used needed to take self-reliant actions to improve their lives and conditions in their communities, urging people not to wait to be rescued, but to take action now to meet their basic needs. The hunger project has created a vision level workshop that allows people to create their own vision for the future, commit to achieving it, and outline the actions that are needed for it to succeed, known as the Vision, Commitment, and Action Workshop (VCAW).
• Empowering Women as Key Change Agents: Women bear almost all responsibilities of meeting basic needs, yet, are systematically denied the resources, information, and freedom of action they need in fulfilling this responsibility. Around the world, millions of people eat two or three times a day, but a significant percentage of women eat just once. Research has shown that when women are supported and empowered, all of society benefits. Hence, The Hunger Project has created programs, wherever they work, that aims at supporting women and building their capacity.
• Forging Partnerships With Local Governments: The Hunger Project works in partnership with local government bodies to ensure that they are effective, include the leadership of women, are directly accountable to local people, and provide access to information and resources.

I have included a link to The Hunger Project's website below. 

http://www.thp.org/

Promote A Post

I shadowed two blogs that I presumed will be interested in promoting my blog, and that I was also highly interested in. I took my time in going through their blogs, and tried to undertand their perspectives of poverty. I tried to get to know them, through their styles of posting and through their response to readers comments. I also read their individual about me posts, to gain some background information on them. After doing all of these, I emailed both bloggers, introducing myself to them, letting the know of my purpose as a blogger. Of these two bloggers, one of them responded, while the other one I emailed was to no avail.

Paul Thomas EdD, the faculty director of first year seminars, council historian NCTE at Furman university, responded to my email, letting me know that he was going to review the post I intended on promoting, and also my blog in general. After he reviewed my post, he responded to my email, letting me know of my blog's potential and also how to improve on it. Though, he did not mention promoting my post, he gave me ideas on authors  that have writing about poverty eradication, and the specific books to look for.

Although, my main purpose of contacting Prof. Paul was not achieved, I have learnt something new on how to go about posting the most relevant issues on my blog. Also, through his blog, I have seen from a professional perspective, how to effectively respond to one's readers comment.