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At Sight Savers, we work in the world's poorest countries, restoring sight and giving hope to many adults and children who are needlessly blind.
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Bad housing wrecks lives and robs children of their security, health, and a fair chance in life. Shelter helps 100,000 people a year fight for their rights, get back on their feet, and find and keep a home. For £2 a month you can help us help children like Joshua. Please set up a regular gift now. Thank you
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Oxfam is a development, relief and campaigning organisation, founded over sixty years ago to help overcome poverty and suffering. Today, there are millions of people living in poverty across the world. Each and every day is a struggle for survival.
Oxfam works with others to overcome poverty and suffering. Everyday poverty kills 30,000 children and it does not have to this way. Oxfam believes poverty is an injustice that must and can be overcome. We work in 70 countries worldwide, providing relief in emergencies, developing programmes that enable people to work their own way out of poverty and campaigning to achieve lasting change. We believe that everyone is entitled to a life of dignity and opportunity and we work with poor communities, local partner organisations, volunteers and supporters to make this a reality. Together we can make poverty history.
"We rely upon public donations and your support will help us continue our vital work with the world’s poorest people. Just £5 a month can really make the difference between life and death."
World Land TrustThe World Land Trust is a conservation charity that has helped purchase and protect over 300,000 acres of rainforest and other threatened wildlife habitats worldwide. You can help us save even more. £25 saves an acre of rainforest.
The path out of poverty begins with clean water and sanitation. WaterAid is an international non governmental organisation dedicated exclusively to the provision of safe domestic water, sanitation and hygiene education to the world's poorest people. We work in 17 countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific region. To date we have helped over 9.5 million people gain access to clean, safe water.
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What can you buy for 16p a day?
You might think “not much these days” but a gift of 16p a day (that’s £5 per month), can provide basic essentials like clean water and healthcare and life-changing opportunities like education and small-business training to the people who need them most. For just a small donation each month, look at how you can transform the lives of those living in poverty:
£8 each month - can buy a mosquito net. Helping to save lives by preventing the spread of diseases like malaria and yellow fever.
£10 each month - can pay for three textbooks for school children in Zambia. Over a year, £10 a month can buy 36 textbooks, educating children to give them a brighter future
£20 each month - can feed a child orphaned by AIDS in Malawi for three and a half months.
£50 each month - can pay a trainee teacher's salary in Kenya for five weeks. Education gives people the skills they need to work their own way out of poverty.
£100 each month - could pay for seven water pipes. Give Oxfam £100 a month and in a year we could bring clean, safe water to people in 84 villages.
£250 each month - can pay for a cow for a dairy farmer in Malawi . Over a year £250 a month can provide 12 families with a cow, that can produce milk to sell and generate an income which could be used to fund their children’s education.
Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.
We are an independent non-profit global campaigning organisation that uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems and their causes. We research solutions and alternatives to help provide a path for a green and peaceful future.
We are campaigning to:
- Protect the worlds ancient forests from destructive industrial logging.
- To protect the worlds oceans from wasteful and destructive fishing practices.
- Phase out fosil fuels and promote the renewable energy alternatives like wind power.
Climate change Already 150,000 people a year die as a result of climate change and the problem is getting worse. The solution to climate change exists today. By reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and adopting renewable energy alternatives like wind power, we can reverse the worst effects of climate change. Greenpeace is working against some of the most powerful governments and companies who are blocking action to ensure they take the necessary steps to protect our climate.
Preserving ancient forests
Throughout the world ancient forests are in crisis. 80% of the worlds ancient forests have already been destroyed or degraded. Industrial and often illegal logging is still destroying an area of ancient forest the size of a football pitch every two seconds. Many of the plants and animals that live in these forests face extinction. And many of the peoples and cultures who depend on these forests for their way of life are also under threat.
Protecting the worlds oceans
Our oceans and the life they sustain are under threat from industrial fishing practices. Almost a quarter of all creatures caught in fisheries worldwide are thrown back either dead or dying, bottom trawling is destroying ocean seabeds and wiping out entire ecosystems, pair trawling is killing dolphins in their thousands and up to 78% of the worlds fisheries are either fully exploited, over exploited or significantly depleted.
Our independence is crucial to our work so we will never accept money from companies or political organisations. That’s why we need the support of individuals to continue our work protecting and preserving the worlds environment.
Giving4Charity.co.uk is a website set up to offer a charitable alternative to the gift buying problem
Too often it is the case that £100s are spent on gifts for people that they either will never use or just do not want.
The idea behind Giving4Charity.co.uk is that you can make a donation to a charity, sponsor a child in a developing or war torn country or adopt an endangered animal.