Do you ever donate money to charities that deal with starving children, or any other charity that supports children?

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I support charities like Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital, Shreiner's Hospital, Smile Train, and Mercy Ships that do not charge children's families for their treatment. There are some children who are dying of starvation. How would you feel if a child you knew was dying of starvation while Vultures are waiting for them to take their last breath? Or children who are so hungry they literally suck the dung out of an animal's rectum? We donate $ Billions for war, but not much for life.

Massageman · Accepted Answer

Until the Wuhan Virus hit, about 3-4 times a year we would work at Feed My Starving Children packing food for be shipped to the ministry connections the organization has. By going through verifiable, existing missions, the successful delivery rate is 99+% (which means the FatCat political "vultures" are NOT getting their hands on it- the people who need it ARE.)

A meal-packing team from Bank of America packing up meals for FMSC.

I've gone on a short term mission trip to Haiti after the earthquakes there: a cement block house with a couple of curtains for walls, and a privy (outhouse) cut into one of the corners is stylish living for most of the citizens. We saw three missions: one that was was just starting up where we sewed and brought toiletry bags, and school "pencil bags" (same design, just different sizes. I sewed about 200+ bags.) A second was an established mission that needed their school and their "multi-purpose" shelter (basically a roof on some columns, and a backwall ) painted. (Paint in Haiti is what we in the US would consider as "white wash" except in 4 different colors- white, light green, light yellow, light blue or tan.). The third was a well-established mission that was expanding. There we got off easy and just had to hand out clothing, shoes (most walk barefoot), socks, blankets, etc that we had brought with us for distribution.

I've gone on a short term mission trip to Athens, Greece, to work at a "Tea House". It's basically a day shelter for homeless/semi-homeless, and a way-station for people escaping religious persecution in the Middle East. [ Geographically, Athens is really more in the middle east than continental Europe, and is a very busy "dropping off point" for legal refugees and immigrants to move to countries with more personal freedom. ]

We covered some of the "day-to-day" tasks so the leaders could be freed up to process the paperwork, etc to help get the refugees legally situated in new- mostly European- countries.

Distributing donated clothing was one of the tasks. There were women- maybe 5 feet tall- taking armloads of men's XXL and XXXLT high-end label shirts. I asked a leader why they allowed them to take what they obviously wouldn't personally use. She said that she KNEW that the ladies would sell the shirts to get money for food and toiletries, and that was fine with the mission: someone would use the clothes and someone else would get some food, so this was really a win-win. ( had never thought about it that way).

And of course we donate to the usual charities such as you do, the hospital charities, etc. Our church supports several missionaries so they get helped, and we'll give some special donations to places such as Samaritan's Purse, etc that are usually first on the scene when there are large-scale casualties somewhere. Alas, we have had to steer away from some long-time, venerable non-profits because of various stands they have taken on certain issues.

NamerOfStars · Accepted Answer

I do. In fact, I spent the summer after high school volunteering with one- Heifer Inturnational, which works to sustainably improve the lives and fortunes of its recipients all over the world.

The founder, Dan West, was a relief worker during the Spanish civil war, and handed out milk to the war orphans- but there was only so much milk to go around, and the workers were told to only give it to the kids who looked strong enough to survive anyway. And Mr West said, in effect, fuck that, I'm going to save them all. If we can't do it now, I'll set up a program to do it myself. And he did- the basic idea is that you send field agents to a chosen family and teach them how to care for a cow, and when their training is complete, you send a heifer, a female cow that hasn't given birth. That matters bucause you send ene that's pregnant, and after her calf is born, once it's streng enough, you pass it on to another family, and the pattern continues. A gow isn't just a summer's summh of barbecues; you get meat, yes, but also milk, and muscle (cattle are GREAT for plowing). and manure to help fertilize your crops, and... well, there mure sever M's, bet I can only remember those four off the top of my head. Not only do you help people vastly improve their lives, but the "passing on the gift" part means that they're not just passive recipients; they're part of the chain of compassion and caring for their fellow men. It's a great organization and I support it wholeheartedly.

But... there hasn't been a famine due to crop failure for almost eighty years. Modern famines- modern hunger, really- is entirely political. Long-term problems call for long-term solutions

Puppystarfish23 · Accepted Answer

As sad it sounds no I don't, there's been a lot of scandals in recent times especially in the UK as to were the money is actually going.

I have friends from India and they tell me they would rather go to India and feed the children themselves which a lot of them actually do now then give money to someone who's claiming to be feeding these children.

Lucy68 · Accepted Answer

Shreiner's
St. Jude
Life beads (there's a Christian boutique in the mall that sells Life Beads which are bracelets made in parts of Africa. With a purchase of a Life Beads or any other jewelry you're helping women in Africa be able to feed, send their children off to school, and take care of them. They also sell other types of jewelry as well)

exitseven · Answer

I think most charities are scams. The administrators draw big salaries and drive around in luxury cars the charity paid for. To be on the safe side I do not give to any of them. The last charity I gave to was to support the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. Then I read that the administrator was a political insider from the mayor's office and was making 6 figures and then I found out that lots of people that applied and received benefits were just faking it.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Sort of. I go to the food bank once a month and they tend to give me a few bags of food that I won't eat so, I put it into a box and give it to my neighbor who takes it to some woman he knows who gives it to homeless people.

DonkeyDan · Answer

I support a couple of local charities, that work with underprivileged children, but not global charities. I refuse to support global charities.

vald9inches · Answer

Yup the world is full of hypocrites and even those charities are corrupt and take 95% of all donations and give it to their ceos and shareholders and whatever else those vultures and leeches can get

Likes2drive · Answer

In the past yeah and every time I round up at the super market it asks to donate

SeekingVirginWife · Answer

No, all the charities/organizations are controlled by the Synagogue of Satan.

CalvinCali199 · Answer

Everything I pay taxes

Anonymous · Answer

Pffft haha 😂

Waldoe · Answer

Yes, monthly

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