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Caring Connections Initiative



          One of the major challenges of being                  No gifts should be sent as this can create
          childless not by choice is the profound               a sense of obligation. It may also make
          sense of isolation. Caring Connections is a           people feel uncomfortable if they cannot
          new initiative from designed to help                  afford to send a gift of a similar value. As
          reduce that. Similar to a Pen Pal scheme,             this initiative is about spreading happiness
          Caring Connections is about sending good              this would defeat the object slightly.
          old-fashioned snail mail to people around             There is no cost of subscribing to Caring
          the world who are also CNBC.
                                                                Connections: However, only people who
          Subscribers to Caring Connections will                have subscribed to the magazine will be
          received the postal address of other                  able to subscribe. This is to provide an
          subscribers. They will also receive some              extra layer of security to the initiative.
          basic information hobbies and interests               Full details will be included in the Jan/Feb
          together with birthday if shared. They                2018 issue of the magazine together with
          randomly choose a person to they want to              Terms of use. These are designed to
          send a physical postcard, card or letter.             protect all subscribers from receiving
          They do this to increase the sense of                 inappropriate material.
          community and support yet without
          expectation of anything in return.



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