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SPUD4STEEM is almost here - stand by to Power Up ! Steem.Amal continues to grow its charitable activities. Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about PromoSteem, SteemField, SteemitFoods, Steem Cameroon, buying Jeans for Steem, some Guides & How To's and many more contests... --- ---

1. SPUD4STEEM Power Up on 1 May

The monthly SPUD4STEEM event organized by @kiwiscanfly is about to happen again on 1 May. It is an excellent opportunity to sell your SBDs for STEEM and power them up into Steem Power, or better still to buy more STEEM for fiat or other crypto. If you are one of the top 'power uppers' you could win a share of the 21000 SP delegation available as prizes in the SPUD4STEEM event... * [**T Minus 27 Hours SPUD4STEEM - Who's Ready?**](https://steemit.com/spud4steem/@kiwiscanfly/t-minus-27-hours-spud4steem-who-s-ready) Powering up helps you build your influence on the platform, allows you to earn more from curation rewards, and helps Steem to grow and increase in price. --- ---

2. Steem.Amal Continues to Grow in Indonesia

The Steem.Amal humanitarian project initiated by members of the SteemSEA community is continuing to extend it activities. As Program Manager @el-nailul reports it is now operating several concurrent programs including providing food packages for orphans, wheelchairs for people with disabilities, new sanitation facilities for mothers and emergency assistance to families who have lost their homes to fire... * [**Official Report: Steem.amal Program Update and Another Emergency Response has been initiated**](https://steemit.com/hive-103393/@el-nailul/official-report-steem-amal-program-update-and-another-emergency-response-has-been-initiated) @nadilchairi reports further on another house fire where Steem.Amal is now providing emergency aid... * [**Betterlife [actsofkindness] Kebakaran Rumah di Tambon Tunong Aceh Utara**](https://steemit.com/hive-103393/@nadilchairi/betterlife-actsofkindness-kebakaran-rumah-di-tambon-aceh-utara-tunong-aceh-utara) --- Steem based charitable activities are continuing to spread around the world. Steem Sri Lanka also now has a very active charity @sl-charity that is already delivering on several projects. Steem Women's Club has been running a 'Chain of Goodness' project that is seeing an increasing number of charitable activites being carried out by its members especially in the Philippines. In Venezuela @mariana4ve is being assisted by @el-nailul to provide weekly food parcels to ten families in need... * [**El Juego del Diario 28/04/21 (149) "Aprobado el Presupuesto, gracias a El-Nailul"**](https://steemit.com/hive-103393/@mariana4ve/el-juego-del-diario-28-04-21-149-aprobado-el-presupuesto-gracias-a-el-nailul) * [**Weekly foods program for 10 of Venezuelans families || First 10 packages are sent**](https://steemit.com/hive-103393/@el-nailul/weekly-foods-program-for-10-of-venezuelans-families-or-or-first-10-packages-are-sent-or-or) --- ---

3. PromoSteem Continues to Grow Everywhere

The PromoSteem project is continuing to spawn new promotional activities around the world at an ever increasing rate. The Community now has @stephenkendal as an official sponsor and is continuing to seek more delegators... * [**Sponsorship & Delegator - PromoSteem**](https://steemit.com/hive-153176/@promosteem.com/sponsorship-and-delegator-promosteem) The daily PromoSteem curation post gives an update on some of the many initiatives being set up to help promote Steem... * [**Top 5 Daily Curation 100% Vote [ 29/04/2021 ] - PromoSteem**](https://steemit.com/hive-153176/@promosteem.com/top-5-daily-curation-100-vote-29-04-2021-promosteem) @stephenkendal is also helping with some fun promotional gifs... * [**Let's make Promo Steem fun! (Includes a Free-to-Use .gif)**](https://steemit.com/promo-steem/@stephenkendal/let-s-make-promo-steem-fun-includes-a-free-to-use-gif) --- ---

4. SteemField Update

The @roadofrich development team have posted another preview update for SteemField... * [**[KR] "SteemField" PC버전 웹 개발 Steemit Website development. - SteemField 업데이트 내용**](https://steemit.com/steemfield/@steemfield/k1dqj-kr-steemfield-pc-steemit-website-development-steemfield) --- ---

5. SteemitFoods Targeting 200K SP

@steemitfoods who were just pipped to the post by @steem-sri.lanka in the race for 100K SP has now jumped ahead with a massive power-up of 1000 SBD it was holding in reserve. The popular food community now has a total of 112K SP and is setting its sights on 200K... * [**10K SP Power Up | 112K SP Reached | Step by Step to 200 K SP**](https://steemit.com/hive-148497/@steemitfoods/10k-sp-power-up-or-112k-sp-reached-or-step-by-step-to-200-k-sp) --- ---

6. Steem Cameroon Sensitization Campaign

Country Rep @njiatanga reports on great progress being made with the Steem Cameroon promotional campaign. Appearances on local radio are attracting a good number of enquiries from people interesting in joining Steem, and the Steem-Cameroon Literacy Center is proving very useful for mentoring newcomers... * [**THE DAIRY GAME SEASON 3, THE NEVER ENDING SEASON : SENSITIZATION CAMPAIGN OVER CITY FM RADIO, NEWBIE ACCOUNTS CREATION AND MENTORSHIP AT THE STEEM-CAMEROON LITERACY CENTER, 27/04/2021**](https://steemit.com/hive-195150/@njiatanga/the-dairy-game-season-3-the-never-ending-ssean-sensitization-campaign-over-city-fm-radio-and-newbie-account-creation-and) --- ---

7. Steem Jeans at a discount

@sogata who is offering a 10% discount in his men's clothing store to anyone buying with STEEM or SBD, has achieved his second sale... * [**Day 9 Report Update - Steemit Campaign for My Shop Costumer by Giving 10% Disc for each purchasing with STEEM or SBD - I get 2 person who pay with SBD [10% payout to promosteem.com and steem.amal]**](https://steemit.com/hive-153176/@sogata/day-9-report-update-steemit-campaign-for-my-shop-costumer-by-giving-10-disc-for-each-purchasing-with-steem-or-sbd-i-get-2-person) @lapulga is very happy with the discounted jeans that he bought for 30 STEEM from @sogata's iLeven shop in in Banda Aceh, Indonesia... * [**Shopping Using Steem at iLeven Distro (sogata’s store), and get 10% discount**](https://steemit.com/hive-153176/@lapulga/shopping-using-steem-at-ileven-distro-by-sogata) --- ---

8. Guides & How To's

Country Rep @njaywan has posted about the importance of powering up - and not powering down... * [**HOW TO ASSIST IN THE STEADY GROWTH OF OUR COMMUNITY - POWERING UP, VOTING & NOT POWERING DOWN**](https://steemit.com/hive-187593/@njaywan/how-to-assist-in-the-steady-growth-of-our-community-powering-up-voting-and-not-powering-down) --- ---

9. Contests, Contests, Contests...

**As an offshoot of Steem News @pennsif now publishes a daily listing of the 'soon to close' contests on Steem...** * [**WIN WITH STEEM : Contests closing in the next two days @ 29 April 2021 - $700 to be won**](https://steemit.com/winwithsteem/@pennsif/win-with-steem-contests-closing-in-the-next-two-days-29-april-2021-usd700-to-be-won) --- @habercitr who runs the Steemit Contest Club Community has produced a compilation of current contests on Steem... * [**Active Competitions / Steemit Contest Club Community (28.04.2021)**](https://steemit.com/hive-189521/@habercitr/active-competitions-steemit-contest-club-community-habercitr-28-04-2021) --- ---

KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.84	30 Apr '21 0.29am UTC
STEEM price	0.00001574 BTC	30 Apr '21 0.29am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#165	30 Apr '21 0.29am UTC
SBD price	US$ 7.74	30 Apr '21 0.29am UTC
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#20,515	30 Apr '21 0.27am UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	211,987 / day	30 Apr '21 0.27am UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	614,762 / day	30 Apr '21 0.27am UTC

--- --- This is #345 (29 April '21) of this daily news service. --- --- [ graphics & images by @pennsif ]