OregonLuvr wrote:Another neat charity is Heifer International.....they help poor countries by giving a pair of animals and having them share the donation in so many ways.
Karen, I agree! Heifer is a wonderful organization and it helps WOMEN (because if you give men $$, they go get drunk and chase women) support their families. What especially touches me is that after a family receives animals, they give offspring to other families, in a ceremony called "
Passing on the Gift." It gives people -- too poor to ever have enough to share -- the dignity to share their wealth within the community.
I decided this Christmas to donate $100 -- and I gave a catalog to my three grandsons, and they will decide how to spend the money. They can buy some chicks and rabbits, plus a share of a heifer, or oxen, or honeybees. It'll require them to do math, but more importantly, they will think about how life is so different among people who live with far less than they do.