As we’ve officially entered into the holiday season, and for many the time of gift giving is quickly approaching. As you are running a muck in daze of lights and glitter, forget not the need of so many that plagues our own countries, and so many children across the world. While we can not single handily bring peace to the world, end poverty or save all the children from suffering, we can all reach out to at least one.
Here are a few things you may want to add to your List this year:
Free a child from slavery
Give a child an education
Provide water to a village of children
Provide a child with the gift of sight
Give a child a month of nutritious meals
Provide a sick child with a life saving operation
Vaccinate a child against diseases like Polio
Buy a family a goat
Adopt a family in need and see that the kids get gifts this year
Make a child's wish come true this year!
To help you out I have put together a list of a few places that can help you do just that:
Angel Wish
The Dream Factory
The Ronald McDonald House
Save the Children Wish List
Free the Slaves
Save the Children
Children in Need
UNICEF
Sight Savers
Give the Gift of Sight
Heifer International
World Vision
BBC Children in Need
Mercy Corps
Toys for Tots
Red Cross
My Two Font Teeth
Salvation Army International
Water Aid
Big Brothers and Sisters International
Give Kids the World
Make a Child Smile
Samaritans Purse – Operation Christmas Smile
Just Give – 50 Ways to Help Children
This list is only a small list of charities and organizations that will help you to directly help a child in need, but remember the child in need may be closer than you think. You do not have to have money to make a child's wish come true, time is a wonderful gift. Remember the child down the street who lives with only an elderly grandparent, the children in need of foster care, the boy down the street who is desperately trying to learn a sport but his single mother doesn't know how to teach him, the family who this year hasn't enough to buy presents for their children, etc… The list of possibilities goes on and on, and so do the children in need.
