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Making a Difference One Textbook at a Time!

This is my first advertising post for which I have received compensation. I've been approached in the past, but never agreed as I will only complete reviews/posts for those companies/products near and dear to my heart. www.operationsmile.org and www.CampusBookRentals.com are two of those companies truly making a difference.

Being educated and knowledgeable can haunt you. At least it does me. When I was pregnant with our first, I remember worrying about every possibility known to man. Will she have fragile X? What are our chances of Autism? How about cleft palate? Thankfully, we were always within an arms reach to great healthcare. I mean really great healthcare. The United States has a pretty good thing going.

However, what happens to those children, those families not as fortunate to live in the land of everything? Cleft palate and other facial deformities are a life changer. It affects every facet of a child's life--social, emotional, communication, physical, etc. Everything changes when a child is diagnosed, which occurs every 3 minutes. In fact, 1 in 10 of those children will die before their first birthday.



Operation Smile is the largest volunteer based medical charity that provides free cleft surgeries, working in over 60 countries. Since 1982, it has provided 200,000 free surgeries to children and young adults in need. For only $240 donation, a child is provided a surgery.

CampusBookRentals.com is teaming up with Operation Smile, donating to Operation Smile for each textbook rented. This is an incredible company I wish I had available to me while completing my undergraduate and graduate degrees. There were several books that I purchased from bookstores, paid way too much for, used for the class and sold back to the bookstore for next to nothing. CampusBookRentals.com not only saves you money, but offers free shipping when you rent as well as when you return AND you can highlight the books as though they are truly your own! They have even come up with a new concept--www.RentBack.com, which allows students to rent out the textbooks that they own to others. This is an awesome deal is it earns you 2-4 times more than you'd earn selling them back at the end of the semester.

Great solutions, which are flexible, convenient, money saving AND help children in need. Being a Speech Language Pathologist, children with cleft palate are near and dear to my heart. I choose to shop with those companies who truly make a difference. www.CampusBookRentals.com and www.RentBack.com are great examples of companies who make that difference!

Visit www.operationsmile.org for more information on how you can make a difference in a child's life!
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