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Imagine a small struggling rural city. Only a few factories are left to employ many of the town’s people and the young people who move away don’t seem to be moving back after they finish college. There isn’t a lot to come back for! The local volunteer fire department needs a new tanker truck to make sure they can help save the lives of those left in the town if such a need arises. There’s not much going on there and it seems as if no one can remember the glory days of the small town…until suddenly something changes. Bingo! Many small towns around the United States are noticing a big difference in their economy and quality of life for their citizens when they decide to open up a community bingo hall in the area.

Bingo halls can provide success for a number of civic organizations in the local communities. In one Kentucky town, the local bingo hall takes turns each week allowing a different civic organization to be in charge. The given organization for the week is in charge of food, getting workers to show up, passing out cards and calling numbers. In essence, they are in charge of pretty much everything for that week. They also get to keep a majority of the proceeds for the week. This is a wonderful way to help with the different groups that may be in need of money in a community, with traditional door-to-door fundraising, which is sometimes an unsafe form of fundraising. If fact, the above mentioned story is a true one! Thanks to the local bingo hall, one community fire department used proceeds from a weekend of bingo to help finance a brand new tanker truck.

Bingo is also a success for many people because it can help fill the boredom and monotony for many people in these towns. It also helps breathe new life to the community, because it can bring in people from surrounding communities. These people come to the given town and eat at the restaurants, buy gas, etc. All in all, it helps the community immensely by bringing in outside money to help strengthen it.

Some people are unable to travel or even get out of their homes. For these people, there is now the world of online bingo. If you search the internet, you will find stories of people who were shut up in their homes and felt as if boredom would overtake them, until they found online gambling. Online bingo brought success for many because it doesn’t take in-depth skill and knowledge of cards, like most types of online gambling. As long as you can pay attention and have access to the internet, you can enter the world of online bingo.

Normally when we hear the words “bingo success stories” we probably think about someone winning thousands and taking a trip to some exotic location, but after this article perhaps we will think about the other types of success that can be brought about by bingo. Bingo can help a struggling community get back on its’ feet, allow someone cloistered in their home to become a part of an online community, and bring people together while playing a fun and carefree game!

Dan Kelly is the owner of Aboutbingo, an online Bingo news and review site dedicated to the UK & Ireland Bingo community. To read more articles by Dan Kelly, please visit http://www.aboutbingo.co.uk