Maria Carolina is a Chilean prostitute who has auctioned 27 hours of sex to raise money for the country's largest charity, which focuses on poor, disabled children.

"I've already auctioned off the 27 hours of love," Maria Carolina told Reuters on Wednesday, saying she had raised about $4,000. "One of my clients already paid. It seemed like a good deed to him."

Speaking about Maria Carolina's unusual donation, campaign organizer Mario Kreutzberger said he would not encourage "immoral" activities, but said he would accept her pledge.

"Everyone can do what they want, but if someone tells me that they'll do something immoral ... I'm not going to encourage it," Kreutzberger, who as "Don Francisco" hosts the long-running "Sabado Gigante" program on the U.S. Spanish-language Univision network, told local media.

But Maria Carolina, who advertises her services on the Internet, defended her money-raising scheme.

"There are people who are going to be donating money that's a lot more questionable than mine," she said. "The only thing I did was publicize it."

Autism Speaks created a music video of the Five for Fighting song, "World", which features images of autistic children and their families. Five for Fighting is donating $0.49 to Autism Speaks for each time the video is viewed. They are aiming for 10,000 hits, but hopefully it will be more.  Here is the link to the video.

(Thanks, Pinggy!)

 Over the weekend, over 200 people helped build a playground for the Harold Colbert Jones Memorial Community Center. It took over 12 hours to build the playground. We moved over 176,000 lbs of mulch, mixed about 7 tons of Cement and built a swing set, climbing wall, jungle gym and a big fort with multiple slides.

Playground in Chicago Heights.