Re: Is it better to give to an organization?
From: phil (guesswho_at_guesswho.com)
Date: 01/23/05
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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:10:55 -0500
soft_in_thehead@hotmail.com wrote:
> What is the best way to donate?
Try something different.
Donate your time:
Find an elderly person in a nursing home nearby (who has no one) and
"adopt" them, take them out once in while or if they can't, visit them
regularly and get to know them. Make their day/week by caring about them
and making sure they're are being well-cared for (long term).
Contact a local cancer treatment centre and ask if anyone needs a ride to
their radiation therapy treatments. For breast cancer, the treatments
usually take 15-20 minutes. It's getting there and back home (or to work)
that takes the time.
Donate to the Lupus Foundation (affects both women, men and children) -
they need research $$$ too.
http://www.lupus.org/ The wristbands are ugly, but there's a magnitized
clock I think for the car for $8.00 and other products there, if not a
straight donation. http://www.casselman.net/ Order her books - give them
to people who might appreciate them. she's got lymphoma and Lupus. Please
don't email her, she's quite sick right now and has been for over a year
now..
Contact Medcins sans Frontieres (doctors without borders) and donate
http://www.msf.org/donations/index.cfm
http://www.msf.org/donations/index.cfm
(ask that it go to their regular programs - not the tsunami - as I believe
there's been lots of money commited to that).
There's a new way of helping poverty in poor countries called
"microcredits".
They loan mostly women money to start a business and are supervised, must
repay the loan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2017335.stm
http://www.africanow.org/sitefiles/appl/appl.htm
http://www.microcreditsummit.org/press/SEF.htm
http://www.microcreditsummit.org/involve/page1.htm
So much need everywhere, lots of choices.....
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