Charities and Donating

Okay.
I'm off work today so I'm doing random things all day. I'm washing clothes and getting ready the work week.
While checking my email, I got a request to sign a petition to help stop sex trafficking of children and young people from the body shop.
This is already a cause I am involved in and it is really horrible so I of course signed the petition.
Please visit and sign the petition and take other steps to help this cause. I also placed this on my facebook. If you can, do that as well. It is a very good cause.
I put a link in the word petition so you can just click that. If that doesn't work here is the site. http://petition.thebodyshop-usa.com/what-can.php
While on this topic I'll note the charity I donate to and support. It also involves human trafficking. Please visit shared hope International's website (www.sharedhope.org).
This cause is very important to me and not discussed enough so I thought I would mention them this morning.

In regards to charities, I think it is important to give back and donate time or money to a cause or many if you are able. It is important to take time and reflect on what we have and what others may go through in the world. I complain when I can't get the latest gadget or can't eat out as much as I want, but then I think of others suffering in the world and I then feel extremely grateful for what I have. I may talk about this topic later in a project I want to start.

Everybody is so busy with keeping up with the newest, biggest, and best things and living their lives that I think they forget sometimes about all the people around the world and that we should help in any way we can.

This very helpful site called Charity Navigator is a great site to help you find and evaluate charities. This is how I found out which charity I wanted to donate to. For now I'm on limited funds and can only donate to one charity, but I plan to add one in the near future.

I have already chosen the charity. Care. Please visit their site and help if you can. Click on Care or visit www.care.org. It is a good humanitarian organization.

Charity Navigator rates charities and tells you where their funds are going. This will help you make the best decision on where to donate.

If you can't donate money, why not your time to a cause?

Or you an donate your gently used clothes and items to your local salvation army or good will.

Do what you can. One small action at a time.