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She's a softy 
I used to donate a bit to various African charities which where providing agricultural, clean water assistance and didn't have high administration overheads.
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| Originally posted by eRRaTiK she's... complicated and/or confused. |
I'm waiting til I'm on my feet before helping anyone. Selfish in the short run but better in the long.
Re: Charity
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| Originally posted by echosystm I've been thinking about this alot today... I've been a complete selfish cvnt basically. Everything has been handed to me on a silver platter throughout my entire life. I'm already an organ donor but that's about as far as I've gone. I'm making a rule for myself to give blood once a year. I'm going in next monday when all the alcohol has cleared out. So that's all well and good... but I feel like I need to do something more. I've been considering doing a shift at a homeless shelter or chilling out with sick children, but maybe there are better places my efforts can go? I thought about sponsoring a child, but that just seems like such a waste of money; cherry picking one person will make little difference, and offers the society a pretty poor return for the amount of money invested. I considered making donations to charities but most of them are just money sucking black holes. Any ideas? I want to donate a considerable ammount of money (for an unemployed uni student) to a charity that will actually put most of it towards education and infrastructure in the really fvcked up countries that need it most... Not considering local charities at all; Australia has minimal problems, most of which are of it's own making. |
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| Originally posted by mezzir don't say spending time with one kid is a waste |
Oxfam... Can I believe the green pie chart? I have had bad experiences with green pie charts... 
donating blood is such an easy thing to do, and is SOOOOOO helpful to the human population out there. you can donate blood ever 6-8 weeks too. so honestly, you could donate 6-8 times a year, not just once.
Last time i donated, i got a phone call about a week later from the place i donated that said my donation had saved a life. it was pretty neat to hear.
Like others have said, check your local shelters/youth groups/churches etc.... for volunteer work. Your local Red Cross Unit has so many classes you can take like CPR, Life Guarding, emergency response, etc... you can take to help serve your community.
Donations don't always have to be in money too. clothing is a huge thing, especially for the salvation army. local schools that are maybe lacking state funding or something can always use extra school supplies. giving a classroom extra pens and pencils can be *huge* for those kids. seriously. If you want to donate money too, find a cause that you want and basically just google it or ask your local city hall about where / who to contact. Again, it doesn't have to be much - $20 can help someone, somewhere. When Katrina hit, i donated $50 to the Red Cross for those in Mississippi.
congrats on taking up an initiative to do something to help out your local man.
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| Originally posted by bubble why not give it to your aborigines? after all, you're on their land. don't you feel any moral obligation to them? |
I have donated money especially to charities like MIRA,Funds for Cancer Research,and the Montreal Children's Hospital. Even if it isn't much, i highly suggest donating a little bit to something worthwhile once in awhile. Not only will it make you feel good, but its always good to hedge your bets and have some good stuff on your resume in case there really is a God.
Just no aids funds because then you might catch the gay and baby jesus dont want them for a sunbeam.
my family like a lot of others i know are donating money to various causis
during the winter time at the super markets some charities are here and u can donate some food for the poor people
it works very well , same for old clothing....
l think it's a good idea u have to do some charities , one of my friend is during Christmas time doing volunteer work for the red Cross it could be an idea.
But like someone said why not helping the aborigenes ?
Because aborigines don't need help as bad as kids in rwanda. Those poor bastards don't even have water to drink, and 1 in 3 has aids.
If I donate $100, I want it to go OUTSIDE Australia.
We're living in a global community now. I think it's a great idea to look at what's happening inside and outside of our own nations and offer help where we feel it's most needed.
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| Originally posted by CranberryJuice But like someone said why not helping the aborigenes ? |
Did you know drug addicts now get an extra $50-100 per week from CentreLink? Apparently it's meant to "stop crime" heh.
Feels great to know my tax dollars are going towards crack.
Does the company you work for provide any organizations? You should look into it. We have "team [insert company name]" at our work which provides opportunities to volunteer. It has a whole bunch of different options... environmental volunteering, children, sick people, etc etc. It's actually a really great feeling once you get into it. I never realized how much I like volunteering until I got into it earlier this year.
just send your old porn and foster cans to the aboriginals and give the money where it is needed most...to improve the quality of trance "music"
We've just got back from a monthly fundraiser for the county air ambulance who get by totally on donations & do a very important job. It's Prize Bingo but they make a lot in proceeds from raffling off donations and so forth, that it does a lot for them. I also support an animal charity, the RSPCA
For the Aussies, I'm putting together a team for the upcoming Worldvision 40 Hour Famine.
More info here.
If anybody is interested in joining the team please pm me asap.
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