I chose Casa de la Mujer. It's a charity I already donate to, and it's a house for battered women and their children. The thing that stuck with me the most was that when I was choosing which charity to donate to (from an organization that runs several different projects), I asked for the one that received the least money, and the answer was this. I found it alarming, because this country has a very high rate of women murdered by their partners, yet very few people felt the need to fund a place for them to go and find refuge.
Nano--I'm not so much undecided as I'm doing it partially. I'm doing a word count for every day I'm not working...
As for charities, after a cancer charity, I would choose Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic. It's under-known and something that does great works. My brother gets all his text books on audio from them.
The charity one is hard! I'm torn, my dream is to go do some sort of relief work in Africa so I'd love to be able to give money to the Red Cross or a smaller organisation that provides some sort of aid/education/medicine for developing countries.
Then theres charities for Autism, that comes from my own experience of working with the most amazing kids with autism.
I went with The Chernobyl Children's Project ('Project', not 'Charity' like I wrote in the poll...ignore me, I'm having a slow day! lol) who work with children from areas of Belarus that are still affected by the Chernobyl disaster. Some of the best summers I've ever had have been spent with the children who come to the UK for the summer for the fresh air and fun. Then this summer, I travelled to Belarus myself to hang out with the children from the orphanages who can't travel 'cause of their disabilities. It was unforgettable and I fell in love with every child there. I never wanted to leave.
So that's probably where my money would go 'cause I know exactly who it would benefit.
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Date: 2009-10-15 11:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-16 01:09 am (UTC)As for charities, after a cancer charity, I would choose Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic. It's under-known and something that does great works. My brother gets all his text books on audio from them.
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Date: 2009-10-16 03:03 pm (UTC)The charity one is hard! I'm torn, my dream is to go do some sort of relief work in Africa so I'd love to be able to give money to the Red Cross or a smaller organisation that provides some sort of aid/education/medicine for developing countries.
Then theres charities for Autism, that comes from my own experience of working with the most amazing kids with autism.
I went with The Chernobyl Children's Project ('Project', not 'Charity' like I wrote in the poll...ignore me, I'm having a slow day! lol) who work with children from areas of Belarus that are still affected by the Chernobyl disaster. Some of the best summers I've ever had have been spent with the children who come to the UK for the summer for the fresh air and fun. Then this summer, I travelled to Belarus myself to hang out with the children from the orphanages who can't travel 'cause of their disabilities. It was unforgettable and I fell in love with every child there. I never wanted to leave.
So that's probably where my money would go 'cause I know exactly who it would benefit.
http://www.chernobyl-children.org.uk/