KELOWNA, British Columbia (Business Wire) More children around the world will soon have safe places to live, learn and play thanks in part to the support of kids who play in the popular snow-covered virtual world, Club Penguin (clubpenguin.com). The fourth annual Coins For Change event, conducted from December 17 to 27, 2010, allowed the children who play Club Penguin to help change the world by donating the virtual coins they earned playing games online to real world causes that matter to them.
Kids could donate virtual coins to provide medical help, build safe places or protect the earth. At the end of the event, the virtual donations to the three cause categories served as votes to determine how a $1M cash contribution from Disney Online Studios would be divided among charitable projects aimed at helping children, families and the planet.
Thanks to more than 3.4 million players who donated in excess of 12.2 billion virtual coins, Disney Online Studios will donate:
- $290,000 USD to support medical clinics in Malawi and Lesotho, Africa (conducted by Partners in Health).
- $50,000 USD to fund operations for sick and disabled children in Cambodia (conducted by Children’s Surgical Centre).
- $75,000 USD to provide school programs for kids displaced by war in Sudan, Africa (conducted by War Child).
- $75,000 USD to protect children from violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (conducted by War Child).
- $150,000 USD to fund projects to provide water to communities in India (conducted by Free The Children).
- $180,000 USD to teach kids and families to care for watersheds and rainforests (conducted by Rare).
- $180,000 USD to protect endangered animals in Columbia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and the Andes Mountains (Conducted by Wildlife Conservation Network).
The Coins you gave are Changing the World :)
Providing Medical Help $340,000
Protecting the Earth $360,000
Building Safe Places $300,000
Fun Facts :)
You Gave 12,261,193,800 Club Penguin Coins. That’s like:
2,452,238,160 Pizzas made in Pizzatron!
2,919,332 Years working as an EPF Agent :)
Buying 15,326,492 Puffles :)
Taking 490,447,752 pearls from clams in Aqua Grabber :)
Buying every single item of clothing ever released 16,613 times :)
Thanks Billybob for this Super FUN and Cool Facts but I am so HAPPY that we gave the Coins to real Children in need instead :)

“Our players work hard to earn virtual coins on Club Penguin, but when a need is expressed they give freely and generously, and I’m always blown away by their passion for helping others and protecting the earth,” says Lane Merrifield, one of Club Penguin’s co-founders and executive vice president of Disney Online Studios. “It was particularly exciting this year to see even more kids from around the world rally together as part of Coins For Change.”
I LOVE Coins for Change it is so Much FUN to Help out :) Thanks again Billybob (Lane Merrifield) for making this Possible :) And Pretty Please let us have Coins for Change 2011 next December :)

…On this Video you can see some of the kids that have got help through Coins for Change :) Coins for Change Result Video 2010 :) and on this Link Collection Post you can find out about ALL the FUN we had TOGETHER in Club Penguin during Coins for Change 2010 :)