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If the idea of giving someone a toilet for the holidays doesn’t make you giddy, in the same way that holding a carton on eggs on Halloween does for teenagers, then I don’t know where you’ve hidden your sense of fun, but you need to go look for it! Toilet Twinning lets you buy a toilet to provide clean, safe sanitation for an area of Burundi that would otherwise go without. You get a framed certificate of your donation and the exact location on Google Earth of your donated toilet so you can point out to friends, family and passersby where people are doing clean safe #2 because of you.
visit www.toilettwinning.org |
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Holidays can be a difficult time for men and women deployed overseas. Anysoldier.com was set up to make sending packages to American military personnel as easy as possible. Plus, the site enables anyone without a direct connection to our soldiers abroad to be linked up with one and become a source of joy for soldiers. The site explains the ins and outs of what to send, what not to send, how to package it, and how to get it sent. In addition, the US postal service offers a discount to anyone sending a package to our troops if they use a certain type of box.
visit www.anysoldier.com |
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Looking for the one-stop shop for charitable giving ideas? Global Giving has tons of ways to donate to whatever it is you are passionate about. Donations made through the site are matched based on the amount of donors that a specific project generates: the more people give, the more a project gets in matching funds. With donation ideas such as scholarships for impoverished communities, computer education for Afghans, homes for orphans and widows, sports programs for children around the world, and much more, a donor can see positive change wherever they desire to in the world.
visit www.globalgiving.com |
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Giving a gift that provides peace of mind, security of health, and restful sleep would be a tall order for any of us to fill, but donating a Bite Back insecticide-treated mosquito net does just that. Malaria kills an estimated 3,000 children a day. By donating a mosquito net, you are giving at least one child a safe place to sleep and greatly reducing the chance that a child in Sub-Saharan Africa will contract the disease.
visit www.biteback.net |
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Don’t feel like you’ve found the perfect personalized way to donate to a charitable cause yet? Universal Giving has so many different ways to give that you couldn’t possibly leave without finding something that bull’s-eyes your passion. If you want to make a difference this holiday season for orphan babies, girls in India, Burmese homeless, malnourished mothers, Chinese artists or American schoolchildren, you can find out how to do it at Universal Giving.
visit www.universalgiving.org |
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Many of us cannot imagine living without the convenience of being connected to computers and the internet. Nearly two billion children in the developing world have no access to education or such technology. OLPC is striving to remedy this with the One Laptop per Child solution. For $199 you can give a laptop to a child in a developing country. They will be provided with a low-cost, low-power laptop equipped with software designed for self-empowered learning.
visit www.laptop.org |
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To live and make ends meet on less than $1 a day requires ingenuity, creativity and hard work. It’s something that poor women around the world do every day. Just $100 is often enough for a poor woman to start or expand a very small business and begin her family’s journey from devastating poverty. By donating to Grameen Foundation’s Ingenuity Fund in honor of a friend or loved one, you can give the gift of hope and opportunity.
visit Grameen Foundation’s Ingenuity Fund |
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