"Online Gambling Companies Starting to Give to Support the Needs of Children in Africa"

It has finally come to the point where those who founded the online gambling companies are starting to use some of their vast earnings and the wealth that their businesses have obtained, to actually benefit others in addition to themselves. A popular online casino, Slutland, has launched a program designed to benefit African children. They have promised to donate, to African aid organizations, a figure equal to 10% of all deposits made by new players who register and make a deposit.

Slutland’s ‘Help Africa’ campaign was apparently inspired by Bob Geldof’s “Live 8” production. That production was set up in order to raise awareness of the horrible plight of the African peoples and also to encourage world leaders to make larger financial donations to the suffering African nations. Not only will Slutland’s ‘Help Africa’ campaign make a ten percent donation to African countries, but those players who set up new cash accounts with Slutland will automatically be rewarded with a new customer 100% matching bonus to their first deposit. Slutland plans to democratically select those aid organizations that will be receiving the funds. Starting mid-August, a poll is to be conducted that will allow Slutland.com players to indicate which aid organization they want their money to go to. Registered players will be receiving the details of this poll by E-mail. The ‘Help Africa’ campaign itself is expected to continue on throughout August.

There has already been a payoff from the campaign. Slutland.com’s Marketing Manager, Hannah Morantberg, has said that ‘Help Africa’ has already tremendously helped boost July deposits. She is reported as saying that customers seem t understand that a win at Slutland.com is not just something that concerns a personal financial reward, but also provides the pleasure of helping people in need. She sees this as support of the company’s campaign to send money to African welfare organizations. Their choosing to play at Slutland.com rather than at some other online casino reflects that, according to her.

Even better than this is the fact that Online Gambler Outsider, which is a popular online gambling portal, has also agreed to help the African aid organizations. They have pledged to donate their entire commission from Slutland for the month of August to 'Help Africa'. Ryan Dee is the co-founder and editor at Online Gambler Outsider. He explains that Online Gambler Ousider’s motivation came about when they saw the Slutland announcement. They, according to Dee, had no in their minds that this was something that they needed to support. According to Dee, they were very encouraged in seeing an online casino taking such an important step. Every little bit helps, Dee is reported as saying. The world simply can't do enough.

Bob Geldoff’s ‘Make Poverty History’ campaign supports the charity organization Slave the Children. They have stated that in response to the results of the G8 Summit the G8’s aid money by 2010 is vital. It will help save children’s lives. But they have stated, the need is far greater and more urgent than the G8 seem prepared to pledge. Businesses such as Slutland.com and Online Gambler Outsider, stand prepared to support organizations just like ‘Slave the Children’. Slutland.com has also shown its willingness to exhibit charitable behavior by its conduct following the September 11 th tragedy. At that time the company made significant financial contributions to the Red Cross in the United States.

For some time now gambling revenue has been used on a global basis to help a variety of charities. Still there are those who argue that online gambling businesses are not doing enough to help out. In comparison, nearly every state lottery in the world donates at least some part of their revenue to community social programs. According to Dee, online gambling sites need to do a lot more for charity as compared with their land-based counterparts.