Intel Corporation, Save the Children and Kiva.org have joined forces to raise awareness and funds in an effort to address two of the world’s most pressing challenges – providing access to quality education and fostering economic development where it’s needed most. Intel’s “The Small Things Challenge” aims to help ensure children in developing countries can attend primary school and entrepreneurs in need have a chance at success. Throughout the developing world more than 75 million primary age children are not in school – robbing them of future opportunity continuing the cycle of poverty – and at least 80 percent of humanity lives on less than ten dollars a day, according to data from the United Nations.

With the “Small Things Challenge,” we are encouraging you to do a very small thing in order to make a big difference. Through the program, Intel hopes to donate up to $300,000 this year to Save the Children’s Rewrite the Future education initiative, which is focused on securing quality education for the millions of children out of school due to war and armed conflict, and to Kiva.org, which facilitates microloans to entrepreneurs in need around the world.

So what is the “small thing” you can do? Visit www.smallthingschallenge.com and click on the “Intel will donate 25 cents for you” button on the left-hand-side of the website. For every click, Intel will donate 25 cents to be shared equally between Kiva.org and Save the Children. So easy to do over a morning cup of coffee! And better yet, it’s FREE.

To learn more about Save the Children or the Rewrite the Future initiative, you can also visit www.savethechildren.org.

To learn more about Kiva, visit www.kiva.org.

-Matt Flannery, Co-Founder and CEO of Kiva, & Ana Rahona, Communications Director, Save the Children