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Kate61487

I swear I only hit the button once; I even opened a new page of the E board to see that it posted :-(  Thanks for the response though!

krizzo17

heifer international.

You donate a sum of money that buys, say, a flock of chicks, a cow, or 3 rabbits.

Animals are delivered to a 3rd world country - along with training (usually to women or other at-risk groups) on how to make these animals profitable. You learn to breed the animals, decide which should be slaughtered for food for your family, what you can sell (meat, eggs, milk, wool, etc). And then - you teach others in your village.

Also, I've recently come across a Canadian charity called "Because I'm a Girl". You can buy things like a months supply of tampons so a menstruating girl doesn't have to stay home from school when she has her period, or literacy training for young mothers, etc. I don't really know a whole lot about this one, though.

mica178

From my pre-marriage days, I gave to Save the Children.  It's your basic program that helps support poor kids in poor countries, and the good thing is that >95% of collections go directly to the kids rather than to maintaining the charity.

Now that I'm married, my husband is the head of the board of Refuge of Hope in Peru, so that's where our efforts go.  http://therefugeofhope.org/ Basically, the organization provides schooling and training for Peruvian kids with disabilities (ranging from blindness and Polio to schizophrenia) who'd otherwise be left illiterate and with no job prospects.  The organization is also involved in reforestation in this area in Peru that has been decimated by nearby over-industrialization.