MiniMonos: MiniMonos Friday Featured Friend: Givealittle

The Legalo Family's Bar & Fales at Faufau beach, Samoa was destroyed in seconds by a massive tsunami on September 30 which caused wide-spread devastation across the island.

Despite their own immediate danger, the family's quick thinking and bravery meant a number of tourist's lives were saved. Those tourists, and their family and friends wanted to help the Legalo Family. So they turned to Givealittle.

Givealittle is an online giving platform for everyone and part of a wave of online ventures worldwide who nut out ways to use the web to create a real difference offline. As the Givelittle team say: “Everyday we get up and come to work on clever online tools so that real issues, people and organisations can get the support they need from people like you. Just call it our noble mission!”

With Givealittle you can find charitable causes to donate to, start your own cause for public donations or support a favorite charity with a fundraising page.

At MiniMonos we used Givealittle to give a donation to the people of Samoa after the tsunami. Donations to the Legalo family helped pay for timber for them to rebuild their business.

In the wake of the Haiti disaster 2 separate appeals launched on Givelittle raised a total of over $20,000 USD.

Here's the awesome and inspiring team behind Givelittle! Fantastic effort, guys -- we love what you do!