I know its a little early for Christmas stuff, but the new December Glamour issue came yesterday and it totally put me in the Christmas mood. This is a page from Glamour I really want to share with you guys, all content credit goes to Glamour December Issue 2012.
Please don't sue me.
1:Train a service pet. A 5$ gift to canineassistants.org covers a week of food for a puppy learning to aid people with disabilities.
http://www.canineassistants.org
2: Buy groceries for a needy family. Nearly 50 million Americans are facing hunger; 21$ to feedingamerica.org feeds a family for two weeks.
http://feedingamerica.org
3:Donate your old phone to cellphonesforsoldiers.com, which recycles them and uses proceeds to buy calling cards for our troops abroad.
http://www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com/index.php
4:Restore vision. 50$ to uniteforsight.org gives surgery to one of 94 million people who are blinded or visually impaired by cataracts.
http://www.uniteforsight.org
5:Rehabilitate women who've been trafficked. Senhoa.org hires survivors to make jewelry, like this bracelet, and helps them safely transition back into society.
http://senhoa.org
6:Provide a kid with peace of mind. Holiday bulbs designed by celebs like Brooklyn Decker support the Child Mind Institute, which researches mental illnesses in kids (40$, available at bloomingdales.com).
http://www.bloomingdales.com
7:Help more teens in the U.S graduate. A million drop out a year. Tutor and assist in an at-risk classroom for 10 months with city year.org.
ityyear.org/CityYear/Home_New_2011/Home_A_2011.aspx
8:Keep an infant HIV-free. In Africa, more than 800 babies are born with it daily; 50$ to m2m.org teaches an expectant mom to avoid transmission.
(Safari wouldn't load a link to this, just type in m2m.org and see if it works)
9:Donate your old wedding gown or veil to bridesagainstbreastcancer.org. They'll sell it at a bridal show and help pay for support groups for patients.
http://bridesagainstbreastcancer.org
10:Comfort the homeless. At projectnightnight.org, 20$ provides a blanket,book, and a stuffed toy to one of 334,819 kids in shelters nationwide.
http://projectnightnight.org
11:Beautify a city park.$15 to tpl.org goes toward playground equipment in a new or renovated green space for boys and girls across the U.S.
http://www.tpl.org
12:Ready young mothers. $50 to nursefamilypartnership.org coaches five first time moms about healthy pregnancies and smart parenting.
http://www.nursefamilypartnership.org
13:Save a life in South Sudan. $5 to dock2dock.org ships unused supplies from U.S hospitals to remote clinics where shortages threaten lives.
http://doc2doc.org
14:Give internet access to Afghan women. $25 to youngwomenforchange.org donates a desk to the first ever female-only Web cafe in Kabul.
http://www.youngwomenforchange.org
15:Prep an animal for its new home. Just $10 to petfinderfoundation.com vaccinates four shelter dogs or five cats, keeping them ready for adoption.
http://petfinderfoundation.com
16: Invest in health. 17% of American young people are obese; $50 to actionforhealthykids.org buys PE tools for a class in a struggling district.
http://actionforhealthykids.org
17:Inspire a new author. M.Ward and Zooey Deschanel's holiday album ($11, amazon.com)benefits 826 National, which helps disadvantaged students build writing skills.
18:Stop partner violence. In honor of Yeardley Love, who was killed by an ex-boyfriend, joinonelove.org educates us all to prevent abuse.
http://www.joinonelove.org
19:Pay for a terminally ill child's getaway. $25 to givekidstheworld.org helps affected families take a vacation to its Florida resort.
http://givekidstheworld.org
20:Volunteer from your desk. Sparked.com asks about your skills and passions, then gives ideas for using your talents to better the world.
http://www.sparked.com
21:Fighting lung cancer. A donation to lcfamerica.org funds research to predict, detect, and treat the top cancer killer among Americans.
http://www.lcfamerica.org/welcome.html
22:Take care of amputees. $300 to brac.net provides a prosthetic arm or leg to a Haitian who lost a limb to the 2010 earthquake.
http://brac.net
23:Prevent illiteracy. Order yourself a new book at betterworldbooks.com, and they'll send one to a needy child in the U.S or abroad.
http://www.betterworldbooks.com
24:Raise a roof for a struggling family. Spend a day at one of womebuild.org's 27 sites and help put a low-income family into a home.
25:Groom women for government with a gift to the non-partisan wufpac.org, conservative shepac.com, or liberal emilyslist.org.
26:Keep at risk youth drug-free. For $25 to deaeducationalfoundation.org one girl can attend after school dance classes for 10 weeks.
http://www.deaeducationalfoundation.org
27:End hunger. Spend $120 on a Feed tote full of gourmet snacks (deandeluca.com) and 15 meals go to kids in Africa, Asia, or the Middle East.
http://www.deandeluca.com
28:Soothe a scared kid. Send a stuffed animal to projectsmile.org; police officers and paramedics will hand them out to trauma victims.
http://www.projectsmile.org
29:Give land to a poverty-stricken woman. For $150, landesa.org secures a plot for a woman in India to live and grow food with her family.
http://www.landesa.org
30:Rush in relief when disasters like Hurricane Isaac strike. Teemrubiconusa.org uses your $11 to keep a veteran ready to deploy to crisis areas.
http://teamrubiconusa.org
31:Rebuild schools after devastation. Every dollar to happyheartsfund.org, created by former Glamour Woman of the Year Petra Nemcova (right) does just that around the globe.
http://happyheartsfund.org
I just want you guys to consider this, maybe copy a few links, donate some money, like I will probably be doing soon. I really want to give back more this Christmas, and I hope this will help and encourage you to as well. I am going to upload another blog about my feelings and thoughts on Christmas, but for now, please join me in helping the world and giving to others.
And if you can't, please just pray for these people, or if you're an atheist, send some positive thoughts out, kay?
Thanks so much, live long and find slash,
-Raroman
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