Anna Lech Choose Your Charity

Do you have a lot of energy? Are you good at organising school eventsevents [event]events for your classmates? Do you enjoy helping others? If the answer is yes, you should get involvedget involvedget involved in charitycharitycharity and work for a good causegood causegood cause. Charities are organisations which help people in needin needin need.

Some people donatedonatedonate money, food, clothes or books. Others decide to give their time to those who need help. There are different ways of helping but the idea of charity always stays the same – you help and don't expect anything in returnin returnin return. A volunteervolunteervolunteer is a person who works for a charity. Volunteers don’t get any money for things they do. They work because they want to help.

There are many charity organisations, for example Doctors Without Bordersborders [border]Borders or the (UNICEF) United Nations Children’s Fund. In the first one doctors give free medical help to poor people. The second one helps children all over the world in different ways - with food, medicines or eduction.

You don’t have to join the big charities, you can also help doing small but important things. When you decide what to do, the sky’s the limitthe sky’s the limitthe sky’s the limit! Let us have a look at smaller, less popular organisations. Helping them may make a big differencemake a big differencemake a big difference.

Binky Patrol gives beautiful handmade blanketsblankets [blanket]blankets to children who suffered fromsuffered from [suffer from]suffered from natural disastersnatural disasters [natural disaster]natural disasters such as tornadoestornadoes [tornado]tornadoes or earthquakesearthquakes [earthquake]earthquakes. These children very often have no family or no place to stay. If you can make a blanket yourself, donate it to Binky Patrol and a child in need will be warm and happy.

KaBOOM! builds fun and safe playgrounds for children who live in poor areas of the world. Your playground can be just a short walk away, but there are places in the world where children never go to a real park. If the kids have a safe place to play in, they can stay away from the dangerous streets.

Stuffed Animals for Emergencies (or SAFE for short) donates lovely plush animals to children who suffer from wars or natural disasters. A toy is a simple but important gift. It means a lot to a child who has nothing. A plush friend helps to forget about problems and doesn’t let you feel sad or lonely.

Reach Out and Read donates children’s books to waiting roomswaiting rooms [waiting room]waiting rooms in hospitals. Young patients are often stressed or worried before seeing their doctor. Books with nice illustrations help ill children forget about stress while waiting for the doctor. Each hospital should have a kids’ library and you can help to collect money or books for them.

There are many charities and it’s up to you how you are going to help. There’s always a lot of work for volunteers. You can help, too, so all hands on deckall hands on deckall hands on deck!

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