We’re writing to ask you  to join a very effective program to donate to charities, with no money out of your pocket! This program is put out by the giant online retailer Amazon: if you buy your stuff online at smile.amazon.com ( = amazon.com), Amazon will donate automatically 0.5% of the total to the charity of your choice. To learn more about this program, we invite you to visit their webpage http://smile.amazon.com/about.

Next We’d like to plead with you to select the charity Afar Foundation (AFF) as your charity of choice on smile.amazon.com . This charity focuses their activities in something we all deeply care about: education of under-privileged children and youths. We have donated regularly to AFF for several years.  We have known the members of this organization since my college years and We can without hesitation vouch for their integrity, trustworthiness and efficacy . We encourage you to visit AFF webpage afaronline.org to have a better understanding about this charity. AFF is registered with SmileAmazon to receive the 0.5% automatic donation from Amazon.

To get on board with this donation program, please follow these simple steps:

            – First, we’d ask that you choose “Afar Foundation” as your charity of choice on smile.amazon.com by following the directions in the attachment ” How to select AFF on SmileAmazon”. This will take a few minutes.

            – Afterwards, whenever you need to shop on Amazon, please sign-in  smile.amazon.com ( please bookmark this link), then go about your shopping as usual. At  your  check-out, Amazon will donate automatically 0.5% of the total to AFF!

Furthermore, as you’re well aware, these educational needs we’re talking about are immense so there is no end in sight for our fund-raising activities. Therefore, I’d ask you to go one step further by reaching out to as many people as you can to ask them to join this program. Please emphasize the” No out-of-the-pocket money “ feature of SmileAmazon. It would be awesome if you could invite 5-10 people !