An anonymous donor has contributed 1 BTC (WOOOOW!) @ralphtheninja has donated 0.5 BTC  (WOW!) 

@FakeEStott will deliver to ONE randomly selected lady an amazing hat (WOW!) from gettoknowbitcoin to her doorstep.

You’re not a woman? Have some mBTC? Support this project? Make 250 women happy and a very much needed part of the community. Chip in:1MBs7ky8VXeTa9EgdnrwWimZHghDJKyKnd

Thank you for your generous donations!

UPDATE:

Thanks everyone for donating so much bitcoin and making me so busy Right, this giveaway exeeded our expectations and we have to make sure that the rules are clear and everything is transparent. We are working now on an updated website, adding more information and tiding up. The rules are staying the same apart from the timeframe. I’m thinking of adding another variable. If we don’t reach the given number of participants (500) by Sat 15 Mar 20:00 ECT, the giveaway will commence with a 24 hour countdown. This will give us more time to research how to spend it to multiple outputs in one go now. Expect the update tomorrow evening.

BitkoinMama

"Why Bitcoin Matters for Africa" from  Arianna's Bitcoin Blog

From June through August of this past year I backpacked through southern Africa, and the poverty of Zimbabwe really struck me. It’s a country graced with incredible natural beauty, and cursed by decades of misrule. Zimbabwe suffered from the second worst hyperinflation on record; it reached an absurd 231,000,000% in the summer of 2008. That means that the price of goods doubled every 25 hours. To look at it another way, if you started with 100k today, tomorrow your purchasing power would be cut to 50k. A week later, you’d be down to less than 1k, and within two weeks, you would essentially be unable to buy anything.