THE FIVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS… CHARITY NAME DROPPING CONTINUED
In the spirit of the Mother Letter Project, I encouraged you to pick a charity and donate a little “difference” this Christmas season. To that end, I promoted 5 charities over 5 days. Read here for the charities I recommended, including Living Water, Compassion, The Luke Sponberg Foundation, Heifer International, and the entire continent of Africa.
At the end of the post for day 5, I left an auto-link segment so that you could recommend charities for Mother Letter readers to support and many of you participated. In fact, I even discovered a cause or two I would like to support, for instance this particular cause (I understand that religious affiliations differ on this site, and I welcome charitable causes with any or no religious affiliation). Although I would love for you to save a bit of Christmas “change” for my friends in that small African village, I understand if you want to give your Christmas “difference” to another cause. With that in mind, tell us who you would like to see supported this Christmas? Use the box below to tell us. Give us a list. After all, it is Christmas.
Let’s do some work.
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This IS fun! I’ve added Royal Family Kids’ Camps to the gift list - a place where children with a history of abuse and neglect receive love, hope, and all the joys of summer camp!
Brothers Together Iraq is an organization that is helping Iraqi children who are in dire need of treatment for heart disease or birth defects affecting their heart the treatment they need.
More info can be found at:
http://www.brotherstogetheriraq.blogspot.com/
or
http://www.shevet.org/
I-TEC (Indigenous People’s Technology and Education Center) is the ministry of Steve Saint for the indigenous people that his father, Nate Saint, and 4 other missionaries originally purposed to help. If you’ve seen the movie or read the book, “The End of the Spear”, then you know the powerful story of forgiveness behind this man and his ministry. One of the things we love about his work is that he doesn’t try to ‘westernize’ these people, but rather he purposes to serve them within their own customs. Check out the awesome things they are doing at:
http://www.itecusa.org
Okay, I’m a bit slow. Did I do that linking thing wrong? I didn’t realize it would post my name–I meant the charity. Bum.
Anyway this year, a certain cause has touched our hearts. I gave birth to twins prematurely and they passed within the hour. There is an organization called
Newborns In Need. They take care of sick and needy babies and their families; and in cases of crisis, help where help is needed. The bereavement service they provided for us was invaluable as we prepared to bury our babies.–Giving us booties, hats, hand crocheted blankets and clothing in which to lay them to rest, as well as for us to keep as mementos.
More info can be found at
http://newbornsinneed.org/index.html
Great idea! Wow, your just full of them. I’m going to share this/link it on my blog this weekend!
I love the charities you chose. What a great mix! I’m glad you included “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.” So many have not heard of that one, and they are fabulous!! When we discovered our daughter would not live long, a friend shared that organization with me, and we have beautiful photos of our time with her, which is priceless!
I appreciate you, and all you’ve done to give people an opportunity to be a blessing! Keep it coming, even in the New Year! (You’ve got something going here!)
Amy Lyttle (PA)
We support various health fundraising efforts which affect us - Heart & Lung Association for one. And I also have a heart for the addicted and/or homeless. Hope is what they need. And the people that offer hope need financial assistance. We donated to the Union Gospel Mission in Vancouver this year. Every city has recovery houses that need the love of the city to help these very sick ppl.