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Just things I wonder about ... and some people are nice enough to answer. You are welcome to answer, too ... just click on "Comments" and off you go! IF you don't want to be Anonymous, use the Name/URL option and just put in your name ... no URL required .... Starting Jan 28th, 2009, I am using questions from "Table Topics: Right or Wrong?"
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I would buy gifts for unfortunate kids - by getting names from the local "Angel Tree", which lists needy kids with their Christmas wishes.
This helps specific kids and the money does not go into some charity's pocket.
Cin - you must have watched Oprah yesterday....... great episode.
I would buy lots of stuffed bears and take them to Toys for Tots and Ronald McDonald house.
I got a "christmas catalog" from a charity we participate in called World Vision a few weeks ago. One of the things you can donate to instead of buying someone a gift is to pay $35 to help get a teenage girl out of prostitution in a place such as Cambodia, where 1/3 of the prostitutes are under 18. Mothers are forced to sell their daugters to brothels some places for food money. The girls have to service 8-12 clients per day. This is the most heartbreaking thing I have ever heard. I would send the whole $1000 to those girls.
ps. the website is www.worldvisiongifts.org
there are 75 ways to donate for specific different problems and some are really inexpensive
CIN, NEED MORE $1000 BILLS. THERE
ARE A JILLION PLACES TO PUT THAT PITTANCE. JUST THIS MORNING A YOUNG
LADY AT THE OKIE DOKIE WAS WORRYING
ABOUT TUITION FOR HER COLLEGE NEXT
SEMESTER.
What a question. This is really hard to answer. I guess I would have to donate 1/2 to alzheimer's research and 1/2 to meals on wheels. Either that, or I would have to get more money to dontate to training and entrepenureship programs for women. There are just so many worthy causes.
I'd donate it to my friend Rich. He's an opthamologist who journeys to Ghana twice a year and conducts a free eye clinic where he performs operations restoring site. His selflessness is amazing and I'm hoping to go with him one day.
I've always wanted to do something for abused women. I really don't think there are many programs around here to help them. $1000 wouldn't do much to start one, but I'd use it to somehow help with that somehow.
Gumdrop - The Okie Dokie isn't a local "Dance" establishment is it?
I would do the same thing that I do with my annual United Way contributions, donate them to an organization that preserves railroad history to assist there efforts, because after all of the kids that receive your tidings are healthy, they will need some trains to go see.
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