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Nicole Richie Holds Children’s Charity

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The best way to understand parenthood is perhaps to contribute towards helping others. This is the belief that Nicole Richie instilled upon herself, choosing to assist struggling mothers rather than give gifts to her baby daughter. Giving to people who are not as fortunate as her in terms of income and stature is something commendable and for her efforts, she has joined the ranks of elite celebrities giving to the needy alongside with her boyfriend, Joel Madden.

A source tells the New York Daily News, “She’s hired some pretty high-powered consultants to advise her and put it all together. The website will be a registry, like for a bridal or shower registry, where low-income women list things they need for their babies. More well-off people will then go on and buy stuff for the children.”

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Let us face it. In this world today, there are people who can afford to give their siblings everything that they want. But listening to the struggling community on what they need and apparently wanting to get some form of help close to a miracle for some is something you don’t see everyday.

Through this website that Richie is launching, it is an innovative way of furrhter identifying just what unfortunate mothers and children need to live close to normal these days. Surely this will go a long way and if all goes well, many other people can look forward to doing the same in the near future.

Saveachildsheart.org

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savechildheart.jpgIn true fashion of giving, an Israeli Charity has been working for 10 years to save children from various heart diseases that afflict many in the war-torn region. The Hospital, Wolfson in Israel has been operating on Iraqi children who have managed to get there with their parents to seek help for their child’s defective hearts. Children from all over the world have benefited from the work they do there, from Palestinian, Iraqi and all other nationalities, they open their doors to children who would otherwise have died due to heart problems their parents could not afford to pay for treatment. The hospital claims to save a child’s life every 29 hours and that means a lot for the war torn region. This is the true spirit of giving; even long time enemies turn back on their differences for a child whose life is in jeopardy. Pediatric heart surgery is one of the most specialized and expensive types of surgery a child can ever have, many children die from heart problems such as defects and injuries received during conflicts in the region. The hospital works with some of the most sophisticated equipment and some of the best pediatric heart surgeons in Israel and the world over who donate their time and skills to help these children allowing them to live normal adult lives.
The hospital and the Organization also aims to educate doctors in their respective regions and award facilities to develop and cater to their local needs. The full-outreach program does not look at color, race, ethnicity or any other distinguishing factor other than the fact they all share a common goal, to give a child the life they deserve with the best possible treatment the developed world has to offer. Their doctors also conduct outreach programs, going to the far corners of the world to do heart surgery on children who would otherwise have no futures if it were not for their pioneering work. Visit them and get to know the pioneering work and lives they have saved. Be inspired by the stories of survival and hope that have resulted from their actions as they close their eyes to discrimination focusing on the task at hand, saving lives!

Charity All Over the World

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We all want to do our own simple part in contributing towards the needy organizations. A lot of them have sites over the web which can be easily located through proper input of keywords as optimized using affordable search engine optimization techniques which is highly practiced today. Hence, without these aids, chances are people would not be able to connect with the actual organizations that are sincerely doing their part in contributing towards the charity works we hear of today.

Surely, a lot of countries all over the world have a bunch of charitable institutions all aiming to contribute whatever they can. Finding them is like looking for a needle in a haystack. However, with proper categories, people can surely find out what organization they can surely lend a helping hand. Whatever form of support and assistance will surely be appreciated since most charities welcome everything and anything coming from people for a cause.

Looking Through the Eyes of Despair

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Eyes of Despair

A lot can be said about a person by one glance of their eyes. Expressions can be extracted from a person�s eyes and this is something that can be obviously connoted up close. Especially for children who are certainly innocent and are no experts in hiding inner emotions and feelings, it is but normal to get a prelude to what they are experiencing at the moment. It is simply something that is hard to find.

While the whole story of such plights of lesser fortunate siblings cannot be entirely assessed, it does not take a person to understand why such people would be found in that predicament. But people do not really need to hear their story as most would come from typical mishaps such as financial and lesser responsible people who start to become selfish at certain points of their lives.

Siblings are the victims of such selfish acts and bearing the brunt for them is totally unacceptable.

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How to Start a Good Charity Drive

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There are people who really want to devote some time they have in helping out other people. But the purpose for putting up charity drives would have to define what they are designed for and what they intend to accomplish. People would resort to medical missions, conducting community service in helping out shorthanded foundations to take care of the people under their wing.

Volunteering for Charity

It should however be noted that all this work is purely for volunteering and not strictly required. It is done out of entirely an open heart with no expectations of anything in return. This is the charity way of living, sharing and spreading the love that other people look for to which they have stumbled and almost fallen.

Such a task has been left under the wing of people who stand and believe in something that should be done for the oppressed. All it takes is identifying and matching the people to do the said work at the proper time.

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Donation To Catholic Charities

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The most notable donations given to charities would usually be in the form of cash or clothes. While there are many other things that catholic charitable institution would indeed need, they will in no way dictate what these needs are. Catholic charities such as that of the Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County, are numerous, most of them placed on their website but do not obligate people to actually prioritize them.

Catholic Charities

Donations are done through own free will. They will normally come unsolicited and it would depend on the people who put premium on them if they would be able to adhere towards these requests. Gifts in the form of cash gifts, legacy gifts, memorial and honorary gifts are some of the many types of donations that they would need and it would be up to the donors to choose on which among them would be ideal and affordable on their end.

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Charity Foundations are Non-Profit Organizations

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Practically anyone must be wondering, do all donations given to the known charitable institutions in their region actually reach their intended purpose of helping the actual people in need? Technically, the common man would care less but each penny or in kind donations are totally for the account of the people housed and targeted for such aids and donations.

Non Profit Charity Organizations

These charity organizations are non-profit organizations. They are purely for voluntary aid and work to serve people and endeavors in need. While the immediate understanding that people in need would be the main beneficiaries, there are other causes such as disaster victims, and other individuals who would find themselves on the losing end.

But just the same, the aim of such foundations and organizations is to purely offer help and support in any form possible. It is not about how much or what to give. It is about the use and extending that helping hand to help them in their unfortunate predicaments caused by varying events that have come into their lives.

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Community Service in Educational Curriculums

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In most educational institutions, community service is placed alongside the entire curriculum so that up and coming yuppies can get a glimpse of other things they can do outside that of contributing their expertise and working for a living. Exposing them to the people who have not the same luck that they have, like obtaining degrees and becoming bums is a good way of showing them that life is too precious to take for granted.

Community Service Philippines

Also, taking on community service work where they can do their share in helping various foundations and organizations that aim to answer the call of the needs of various groups is something that people may want to devote a part of their lives. It does not cost much for people to do so. A portion of their time and what they can offer is all that is needed. Everything is purely voluntary but the best way to see where they can help out once they are set out in the world and venture on things that they can contribute for a better society and world to live in.

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Why People Devote Time to Charity Work

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There are people who would prefer to devote some part of their time doing good deeds in the form of service assistance for charitable institutions. Unlike organizations which offer good compensation and monetary packages for services rendered, charity organizations do not have that much to offer and are more of voluntary services coming from people who want to share a part of their time for worthy causes.

Children In Need of Charity

While not all people would perform such time and duties, such commitments are not imposed nor required for anyone. It is simply a matter of wanting to do a good deed or service. Practically all countries have their own charitable institutions that are open for charity work.

Such charity organizations include that of the “Save the Children” in the United Kingdom. Devoting much of their time to fighting for children that are victims of poverty and violence is something that can pay-off in terms of internal feelings rather than color of money for most people. Not all services rendered need to be financially rewarded. Sometimes the feeling of sharing offers something more that money can buy.

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The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research

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The best way to fight disease and illnesses is to be actually experiencing them and trying to find ways to combat them. Such was the motivation that popular celebrity actor Michael J. Fox that brought him to put up this foundation in May, 2000. Fox was diagnosed in 1998 as having a young-onset Parkinson’s disease. Instead of looking for a cure on his own, he turned to making it a foundation to be able to help and make research on how to cure or fight the dreaded disease that has accumulated over $90,000.00 to date.

michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

While there has still been no clear cure for Parkinson’s, Fox still believes that there is hope and that people suffering from it will eventually triumph against it. Donations are continuously racking in and such funds are the basis for making the aggressive research of the foundation advanced and possible to finally discover proper therapies and cures for Parkinson’s disease.

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