Charitable funds, which can be helped in one click
Sasha Savina
Yesterday Elizaveta Glinka died in a plane crash known as Doctor Liza, is one of the most famous Russian philanthropists, a specialist in palliative medicine, who helped homeless people, children in combat zones, and many others. Equitable Aid Foundation, the executive director of which she was, supports homeless, dying patients, people with disabilities and single pensioners. The death of Elizabeth Glinka is a great loss for all Russian charity. But each of us in forces in the new year to help continue her work, and even if you are not ready to become a volunteer, you can always financially support a proven charity organization or foundation.
One of the most effective ways of financial support is to set up an automatic monthly charity payment. Regular donations, even small ones, can be almost more useful for charitable organizations than impressive lump sum payments: they help organizations and foundations to predict the budget that they receive every month and better plan their actions. There are many organizations to support, and among them it is easy to find one whose activity is close and interesting for you - be it the Sisters Center, which helps victims of sexual violence, the Faith Foundation, which works with hospices, the Life Line Foundation, helping seriously ill children, the Downside Up Foundation, working with children with Down syndrome, and many others. We talk about several charitable organizations working in various fields that should be regularly helped in 2017.
Foundation help adults "Live"
The Living Foundation is a specialized organization that helps people of working age who need expensive treatment. Unfortunately, adults often remain outside the purview of philanthropists: neither children's funds nor organizations working with the elderly can help them. “Living” helps to raise funds for expensive medications and surgeries for adults - you can read the stories of those whom the organization helps, on its website. Automatically adjusted monthly payments go, among other things, to the implementation of the program activities of the fund - payment of organizational expenses and improvement of its work.
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
The World Wildlife Fund is one of the most famous conservation organizations in the world: it helps to preserve rare species of animals, forests, seas and fights against poaching. Everyone who helps them financially, WWF called their supporters. The organization offers several forms of support - both one-time and regular - and at the same time it explains what money can go for: for example, you can buy feed for bison for 900 rubles for two weeks, and pay for two days of training for fighting poaching for employees of reserves.
Foundation "Galchonok"
The charity foundation "Galchonok" has existed for only a few years: it helps children with organic lesions of the central nervous system, and also provides social and psychological support to their wards and their families. The Foundation is working on several large projects, including supporting inclusive education and a palliative care center, helping families of their wards to acquire the necessary technical means and organizing psychological counseling for them.
"Night shelter"
Nochlezhka is one of the most famous charity organizations helping homeless people that has existed for more than 25 years. Here they provide a variety of support: homeless people are offered a temporary overnight stay, help restore documents, find relatives, return home, apply for disabilities and benefits, find a job. Regular donations to organizations offer to arrange via SMS (though MegaFon subscribers are temporarily unavailable): the amount you specify will be debited monthly from the account. The amount can be any - 200 rubles, for example, is enough to feed four homeless people.
Fund "Old age in joy"
The Fund "Old Age in Joy" supports older people living in nursing homes. They are helped both financially (they buy the necessary equipment, furniture, put ramps and handrails where it is needed), and morally: the foundation staff organizes activities in nursing homes and hand over cards and letters to the elderly. Regular donations help pay for the work of the fund's staff: at the expense of them, Old Age is a joy to regularly issue wages to employees and hire new assistants.
Center for Equal Opportunities "Up"
Center "Up" works with pupils and graduates of correctional orphanages and psycho-neurological boarding schools. The staff of the center helps children and teenagers prepare for independent living, first of all - to get education and skills, thanks to which they will be able to choose a profession and find an interesting job for them. Classes for students are free of charge, and they need money: for example, 600 rubles will help pay for an hour in the group for 5-7 people. Training is a long process and requires regular donations.
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