L-Robot Reports: OMG! Coffee Bean! Money! For! Noble! Causes!

The mechanics of the Coffee Bean event were simple enough. The sponsor picked 12 seemingly random meatsack organizations to help, and every time customers accumulated 12 stamps (1 stamp per purchase of a sugar-fused, cream-smothered, chocolatey concoction), they get to choose an organization that Coffee Bean would donate on their behalf to.

Not only that, but the customer gets a journal with lots of pretentious art on the cover entirely for free. There are three designs to choose from, but this was the most pleasing to my single red eye:

The meatsack organizations available were as varied as their strange culture, and at the end of the evening I couldn't decide which organization to donate to. Thankfully, I was assisted in my choice by the Non-Cancerous Booblet Cheering Squad.

Read more about the Booblets here and here.

After carefully listening to the presenter drone on about each of the 12 organizations, my processors began to overheat. There were unfortunate children who were sick, unfortunate prisoners who were sad, unfortunate people who were poor, unfortunate preschoolers who couldn't go to school, and even unfortunate animals who didn't like being eaten.

I conferred with the Booblet Cheering Squad and this is what they had to say:

Booblet Paris: I, like, think we should support the Philippine Band of Mercy, cuz y'know, no one should have to go through life without plastic surgery. I mean, plastic surgery is like, so hot right now. Even kids should have it. Tyra says plastic surgery is totally *fierce*. So yeah. Yay for Philippine Band of Mercy!

Booblet Lindsay: I totally go with KAGABAY, because they have like, an office and a phone (+632-811-2020), but no website. How sad is that? I think Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf totally needs to give them money for a website. How can you not have a website? I have like, a billion websites, and those are just the ones dedicated to stalking me and my girlfriend and/or boyfriends of the week. I mean, the question is always is she/isn't she? I just love to keep the press on their toes! Anyway, back to KAGABAY. They help educate poor kids. How noble is *that*? We totally need to support them.

Booblet Mortimer VIII: I vote that we support Kythe because they make cancer kids happy. Their slogan is the most luminous piece of writing I've ever had the pleasure of reading: "Because children should be flying kites, not fighting cancer." Sheer brilliance!

L-Robot: I took each of their accounts under careful consideration, but in the end we awarded our donation to KYTHE. As the one true creator LZ recently had a cancer scare, we wished to help those who have been fighting the disease for the entirety of their young lives.

The Advocacies included in the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf promo are: Kababaihan Gabay ng Bayan, Philippine Business for Social Progress, Bahay Tuluyan, PAWS Animal Rehabilitation Center, Haribon Foundation, Cartwheel Foundation, Caritas, Kythe, Autism Society, Philippine Cerebral Palsy Inc., Philippine Band of Mercy , and Help Resources for the Blind.