First of all – Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers of the world! And of course to the children of the world who made them mothers (hey, that means all of us)!

As you probably already know by now, if you leave a comment here today, you will be raising money for FINCA International, an organization that provides loans to low-income micro entrepreneurs, focusing especially on women.

For each person that will post a comment on SmellyBlog on today, I will donate $1 to FINCA International. This way I hope that there will be more small businesses to make the business world more diverse and help more women gain independence – financially and otherwise.

I also encourage you to visit and leave a comment on the other blogs that participate in this project “Benevolent Blogging”. These bloggers which will donate from their own personal money to the charity of their choice are:

• Beauty Addict for Orphan
  Foundation of America


• Blogdorf Goodman for
  FINCA International


• Brain Trapped in
  Girl's Body for FINCA International


• A Girl's Gotta Spa for Orphan
  Foundation of America


• MonkeyPosh for Humane Society
  of the United States and Muscular Dystrophy Association


• Mother Hen’s Place for Aga Khan
  Foundation Canada


• Legerdenez for Orphan
  Foundation of America


• One Child Left
  Behind for Heifer International


• Perfume Posse for Orphan
  Foundation of America


• Perfumery for FINCA
  International


• Perfume-Smellin'
  Things for Orphan Foundation of America


• The Scented
  Salamander for Orphan Foundation of America


• Scenteur 7 for Orphan
  Foundation of America *Participating May 10th through the 15th!*


• Scentzilla! for FINCA
  International


• SmellyBlog for FINCA
  International


• The Soap Blog for UNIQUE


• That Obscure Object of Desire
  for FINCA International


• Urban Chick for Womankind
  Worldwide *Participating May 12th 'til she returns from holiday in a few
  weeks*


• Victoria's Own for FINCA
  International


• Yankee Family goes South
  for Orphan Foundation of America

You are more than welcome to leave comments on any of the posts for today, Sunday, May 14th, 2006, and I will count you in!

Hugs,

Ayala