Those seeking an immediate and secure way to donate to the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh have a new avenue thanks to UNICEF Australia, which is continuing its foray into the cryptospace like a growing number of its fellow UN branches.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF[1]) has created The Hope Page, a UNICEF Australia[2]-affiliated website that utilizes part of the computer processing power from users who visit it to mine cryptocurrency for donation[3] to the organization.
According to The Hope Page, cryptocurrency mined via a user's web browser "is automatically donated to UNICEF Australia and is turned into real funds that reach children through life-saving supplies like safe water, therapeutic food and vaccines."
The Hope Page uses an opt-in variation of mining software from German-based Coinhive to mine the privacy-centric cryptocurrency Monero[4]. The software allows users to select how much of their computer's processing power they want to allocate to mining for UNICEF on a custom range scale between 20 percent and 80 percent. The website states that mining calculations are quarantined and "securely executed in your browser's sandbox" without the need for installing any additional software.
In its current configuration, The Hope Page is a digital donation pipeline for users to directly support UNICEF Australia's efforts to combat one of the fastest growing and most severe refugee crises on our planet: the displacement of an estimated 720,000 Rohingya people from their homes in Myanmar to one of the world's largest refugee camps in Bangladesh.
Nicole Lawrence, UNICEF Australia's external communications manager for fundraising, brand, and emergencies, told ETHNews, "The Monero goes into a crypo-wallet owned by UNICEF Australia and is then converted into cash before going directly to our emergency response to the
