Enough Thoughts and Prayers. It’s time to ACT.

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We’ve all experienced the trend. Disaster strikes. Our newsfeeds are saturated with horrible stories and images we can do nothing about. And in an effort to combat our consciences, we “send positive energy, thoughts, and prayers” and add a temporary profile picture and move on with our lives.

These constant horror stories numb us. We are so used to suffering, inequality, and tragedy that we barely pretend to care anymore. Regrettably, this informational inundation blinds us to “smaller” issues in our own backyards that we should act on — issues that we as individuals could easily help. Instead of helping though, we assume it’s someone else’s problem. Maybe the government will help. Or an NGO, or charity. But the truth is, there aren’t enough organizations out there to help everyone who needs it.

Meet Lena Dzuba. She is six years old, lives with her single mother in an apartment in Belarus, and is disabled. Recently, the elevator Lena uses every day to get up to her home on the fifth floor broke, making life extremely difficult. Belarusian law allows citizens to petition the government with particular concerns and needs, but raising awareness and support is not easy, nor is it cheap. Lena’s mom is willing to put in the work, but she doesn’t have the money to make a petition a reality. Without it, the elevator remains broken.

Stories like Lena and her mom’s are all too common around the world. Unfortunately, there is no way that every government across the globe can help every citizen like they need to be helped. This leaves people like Lena’s mother at the mercy of a few government officials who also suffer from the information inundation. They’re numb, just like you and me. But now there is a way you can help.

ACT is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that is designed to allow ordinary people like you to help people like Lena who are in need. Because it’s built on the Ethereum blockchain, ACT allows Lena’s mom to submit a verified proposal to an unlimited number of concerned global citizens like you, asking for help. Users of ACT are able to vote on the importance of proposals. These votes are weighted with funds that will support the cause: in Lena’s case, the funds necessary to raise awareness and create a petition to the government repair her elevator.

Using Ethereum’s Smart Contracts, your funds are held safely in a vault until the proposal’s goal is met. Then, those funds are transferred to Lena and her mom, allowing them to repair her elevator. ACT is much more than a crowdfunding platform — it allows you to be a concerned citizen of the world, caring for your fellow humans in a way that no government can.

ACT allows you to do something more than sending positive energy and temporarily changing your profile picture. ACT allows you to raise awareness for countless issues that are being ignored daily, and it allows you to make a real difference in real people’s lives. No longer do people like Lena need to depend upon the whims of an impersonal government. Now Lena has you.

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