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ManiaPlanet is known for having a super nice & warm community. Players are creating new game modes, title packs, skins, videos - all kinds of creative content, every day, for free.
However, this is being taken to a new level with "Giving Gamers", a charity project hosted by wawawawu, a German community member. His idea was to collect planets - a somehow useless currency in ManiaPlanet - to exchange them into real money with the help of sponsors.
He received very positive feedback for this project, but it took him some time to actually tackle this project and present it to the public. Now, the basic idea is complete, sponsors are found and "Giving Gamers" is ready to rock.
"Giving Gamers" is focussing on supporting children charity projects all over the globe.
"Whenever disasters happen, children are always the most affected – regardless of whether the disaster is natural or manmade. Children are always at the mercy of fate and get often instrumentalized by various parties.
Whenever the earth on our little globe quakes, a vulcano bursts, avalanches, taifuns or tzunamis occur and waste big areas, if rain fails to appear for months or comes down like a flood and everything is submerged and washed away, if epidemics depopulates whole cities…
When anywhere in the world fights for borders, might, money, drugs, weapons, oil or the “right” religion are starting again…
One thing is for sure: Children are always most affected!"
Wawawawu and his sponsors managed to agree on an exchange rate of 1 Euro Cent per donated Planet - which means every single donation, no matter if it's "just" a small or a bigger one, will be very appreciated. 100% of the donated planets will be exchanged and forwarded to the organizations.
But Planets are not the only currency you can support the project with. Of course you can also donate real money via PayPal or Direct Transfer.
The current goal are 500.000 Planets, and together with your help we can reach this goal and get even further!
Find more information on the official website, available in 4 different languages.
http://giving-gamers.com/
It's a great cause and I can just highly recommend to share this ambitious project if you want to support this project. Thanks!