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Who Cares? Me. With that out of the way, I want to take a second to make a point about charity. I saw some comments today on Lowe’s Facebook page, where they are giving away $1M. One of the organizations that is up for voting is water.org. I like water.org. A lot. They’re good people. That’s beside the point though… Go check out these comments: http://www.facebook.com/lowes/posts/144071265650674 Here’s what gets me – The argument that the money should stay in the USA. People are saying not to choose water.org because funds will end up being used in another country. Who are we to...

If you follow Three Avocados at all on this blog or Twitter or Facebook, you know that we are an organization born out of a Christian mission trip and founded upon Christian principles. You know that I am a Christian. But I don’t call us a “Christian organization” or a mission. It was actually quite a struggle when starting the organization. Ultimately, it came down to this: I am a firm believer that people’s physical needs must be met before their spiritual needs can be met. I am not a huge fan of tying clean water to the Gospel message...

Born in the US? Congratulations, you won! Roughly 4.5% of the world population lives in the United States. That means you have a roughly 1 in 22 chance of being born here. Those odds really aren’t that bad. Let’s take minute though to look at the flip side of things. Approximately 15% of the world population lives in Africa. That means  your odds of being born in Africa are 1 in roughly 6.5. Now, let’s take a look at the GDP for the United States and for Africa. USA (2009): 14,002,739,000,000 (14 Trillion) Africa (2009): 1,184,000,000,000 (1.1 Trillion) Let’s do...

Recently, I’ve received a number of questions about our financial model. I’ve also seen some blog posts where people are taking a stab at what it might be. I think that’s absolutely wonderful that people are interested in the model behind Three Avocados. Based upon the interest, I wanted to take a few minutes to write a simple blog post describing the model. Simply put, in many ways, Three Avocados is no different than any other business…well, except that we give away 100% of our profits. The easiest way to think about our model is just that of a regular...

I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Pastor Charles Bameka, who is a Lutheran pastor in Kampala, Uganda, and surrounding villages. Charles himself has an amazing story. He was born and raised in Uganda, very poor. He was able to get an education and get a good paying job. He quit his job to become a pastor. Charles does amazing work all throughout southern Uganda. But, this post is not about Charles. Charles told us the story of a street kid in Jinja, Uganda. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, street kids are typically young, orphaned children. They...