BooRah - Inside the Buzz

Today, BooRah is launching a new program that can benefit charities such as Sankara Eye Foundation, Children’s Tumor Foundation and America’s Second Harvest Food Bank. We’re requesting passionate people to sign up as BooRah members, invite their friends and families to participate, and thereby help these deserving organizations. Being a small company with many financial constraints, this is an option that lets us spread the word about our company while contributing to a worthy cause.
In early 2000, I came across a couple of my Indian friends who were volunteers at a relatively unknown charitable organization called Sankara Eye Foundation. As I saw their passion and dedication to realize a dream of “20/20 by year 2020″ in India, I felt compelled to participate and contribute. Today, they perform about 70,000 free eye surgeries every year and continue to expand. While their donations continue to grow, it is the grass roots efforts of their members that have made the organization vibrant and a model for many.

Locally, we continue to struggle with overwhelming burden of sub-prime mortgage melt down, inflation and threats to national security. People are turning to food banks and soup kitchens for help with basic necessities. According to the March 20th Wall Street Journal, local food banks are struggling at a time when more and more people are having trouble making the ends meet. The federal government and a number of corporations such as Walmart are stepping in to help in a big way.

Each year, 1 in 3,000 children throughout the world are born with a genetic disorder called Neurofibromatosis (NF). NF causes tumors to grow anywhere on or in the body, and can lead to severe forms of brain tumors, learning disabilities, and deformities. There is no cure. The Children’s Tumor Foundation is dedicated to ending NF through research and to improving the health and well being of those affected by NF.

We at BooRah, want to make a difference, in our own small way!

Tell your friends to join BooRah today and sign up to contribute to one of the above charities. In exploring BooRah, we hope that you’ll also have a found a new destination on the Internet for you to pick a restaurant for your next dining occasion.

BooRah will contribute $.10 to the charity you select, for you and for every new BooRah member referred by you through BooRah’s “donate to charity” program between March 23 and April 30, 2008 - up to $1,000 in total contributions. We’ll make the contributions during the month of May 2008. You must use BooRah website for us to process your referrals correctly. You can sign up for “donate to charity” program at http://www.boorah.com/restaurants/signup/charity.html