Ways to help
Where do I start?
So much need in the World, so many ways to help. You must always follow your heart... dig deep within yourself and discover what is your passion. What need most burdens your soul? We have provided a variety of charity links to assist in providing giving opportunities*. This will expand as visitors like you share about organizations they are passionate about. If you are aware of a specific charity you recommend, but not listed, please share with us HERE.
I care, but love my fancy stuff more
Yep, we say it how we see it at ge.life. If you own a luxury car worth more than a regular one just as reliable, but less luxury, you are not equalizing World pain. If you have been blessed, don't flaunt it, stop bragging, nobody of depth cares. Make a real difference, and be a true hero. Invest the extra you've been blessed with, to save a child from sex traffickers, provide food to thousands of starving with less money than the difference in price between luxury and normal.
I care deeply, but unable to help
Nothing worse than seeing needs, but unable to help. It's easy to empathize with those on a tight budget. It's been a particularly tough few years due to World inflation and other unusual events. Thank you for caring, and please don't feel guilty... giving to the people around you with kindness and love through gentle, caring interactions, is worth more than money. Good character is eternal. We do have a volunteer section if that's your thing., but no pressure... just follow your heart.
“I’m Gonna Make It.” – Stories from Survivors of Child Trafficking.
Video by LOVE146 charity organization.
Ukraine
Ukraine
As we are all aware, Ukraine is a country under extreme humanitarian
and rebuilding challenges. Due to the wide scope of assistance needed,
we've created a page entirely devoted to their needs. Please click below.
Refugee & Humanitarian support
UN Refugee Agency
From their site:
More than 110 million people globally have fled war, violence and persecution — many with just the clothes on their backs and what little they could carry in their arms. Now, as temperatures plunge, many are unprepared to face a bitter cold and dangerous winter. After bravely enduring unimaginable circumstances with strength and resilience, they need your help.
USA for UN Refugee Agency
From their site:
Emergency Relief Efforts: When violence erupts or war breaks out, life can change in a matter of minutes—shattering families and communities and driving millions to flee. During refugee crises, UNHCR rushes in humanitarian aid and its expert staff, leading efforts to save lives and relieve suffering.
International Rescue Committee
From their site:
The mission of the IRC is to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster, including the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control over their future.
Care
Doctors Without Borders
From their site:
For more than 75 years, CARE has led the way to a better life for millions of vulnerable people around the world.
We save lives, defeat poverty, achieve social justice, and fight for women and girls.
Mercy Corps
Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders
From their site:
At Mercy Corps, we seek solutions to the world’s toughest challenges. To take on the consequences of conflict and climate change, we bring together bold ideas and the lived experience of people who know their communities best—scaling what works to achieve lasting, transformational change.
We connect people across the glo
From their site:
At Mercy Corps, we seek solutions to the world’s toughest challenges. To take on the consequences of conflict and climate change, we bring together bold ideas and the lived experience of people who know their communities best—scaling what works to achieve lasting, transformational change.
We connect people across the globe to clean water, nutritious food, better economic opportunities, and more peaceful tomorrows—all critical to unlocking the power of human potential and strengthening communities to better cope during crises, adapt to evolving challenges, and thrive into the future.
Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders
From their site:
We provide independent, impartial medical humanitarian assistance to the people who need it most. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) cares for people affected by conflict, disease outbreaks, natural and human-made disasters, and exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries.
The children
Would you help? (3min)
— UNICEF Canada
The hungry...
Give life... they're so young and dependent on our mercy to survive.
Children help
unicef
From their site:
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children's lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. And we never give up.
Discover UNICEF's work for every child, everywhere.
Action Against Hunger
From their site:
Two million children die every year from malnutrition.
We save the lives of children and their families. We are there for them before and after disaster strikes. We enable people to provide for themselves, see their children grow up strong, and for whole communities to prosper. We constantly search for more effective solu
From their site:
Two million children die every year from malnutrition.
We save the lives of children and their families. We are there for them before and after disaster strikes. We enable people to provide for themselves, see their children grow up strong, and for whole communities to prosper. We constantly search for more effective solutions, while sharing our knowledge and expertise with the world. We push for long-term change.
Info video:
Feed the Children
From their site:
Internationally, Feed the Children implements a Child-Focused Community Development (CFCD) approach, which includes program activities in the areas of food & nutrition, health & water, education, and livelihoods. We work with vulnerable and at-risk children, their caregivers, and communities to cultivate the social, econom
From their site:
Internationally, Feed the Children implements a Child-Focused Community Development (CFCD) approach, which includes program activities in the areas of food & nutrition, health & water, education, and livelihoods. We work with vulnerable and at-risk children, their caregivers, and communities to cultivate the social, economic, cultural, and environmental conditions needed for families to thrive.
ChildFund
From their site:
Here for children since 1938. Why? Because we need each other.
Every child needs someone who’s on their side – someone who cares about what happens to them and works to ensure their highest good.
ChildFund is a global community of people who care about children and take action to help them live at their fullest potential a
From their site:
Here for children since 1938. Why? Because we need each other.
Every child needs someone who’s on their side – someone who cares about what happens to them and works to ensure their highest good.
ChildFund is a global community of people who care about children and take action to help them live at their fullest potential at every stage of their lives.
We are people who believe that we all have a lot more in common than we think. That every child – like every person – is of equal worth and value, indispensable. And that each of us has a part to do.
We are people who know that we can’t afford to lose a single child to hunger, violence, disease or neglect. And that when children grow up healthy, educated and safe, everyone wins.
We are parents, teachers, entrepreneurs, doctors, artists, social workers, advocates and grown-up kids of all ages and life paths, all around the world, who believe every child should be free to do what they do best: play, learn, grow, explore and experience the wonder of life.
Info video:
LOVE146
From their site:
For over 20 years, Love146 has been a credible force preventing child trafficking and providing holistic support to survivors.
The phrase “human trafficking” was introduced decades ago with relatively few people tracking the issue. But today, many of us know about this horrific crime. The number of reports about children be
From their site:
For over 20 years, Love146 has been a credible force preventing child trafficking and providing holistic support to survivors.
The phrase “human trafficking” was introduced decades ago with relatively few people tracking the issue. But today, many of us know about this horrific crime. The number of reports about children being trafficked is skyrocketing. It can seem like the issue is getting worse as new stories are unearthed. But the more deeply we understand the issue of child trafficking, the closer we are to ending it.
ECPAT
From their site:
Violence against children, including sexual exploitation and abuse, affects an estimated one billion children worldwide and ECPAT’s research has concluded that no country or region is ‘immune’.
We are an international organization with 124 partner members in over 100 countries collectively working to end the prostitution
From their site:
Violence against children, including sexual exploitation and abuse, affects an estimated one billion children worldwide and ECPAT’s research has concluded that no country or region is ‘immune’.
We are an international organization with 124 partner members in over 100 countries collectively working to end the prostitution and trafficking of children.
Please visit the ecpat link below, for more information and ways to help.
Even small contributions make a big difference.
A little goes a long way.
General humanitarian needs
Seva (eye care for all ages)
From their site:
Seva is a global nonprofit eye care organization that works with impoverished communities around the World, to develop self-sustaining programs that preserve and restore eye sight.
Breakthrough RISING AGAINST GENDER BASED VIOLENCE
From their site:
Violence against women and girls can end with YOU.
YOU can make it possible for a generation of young women to lead lives of choice not fear.
VIsion: To create a World where discrimination and violence against women and girls is unacceptable.
GiveDirectly
From their site:
We give cash directly to people living in poverty. GiveDirectly is a nonprofit that lets donors like you send money directly to the World’s poorest households. In doing so, we aim to accelerate the end of extreme poverty globally.
We believe people living in poverty deserve the dignity to choose for themselves how best to improve their lives — cash enables that choice.
World Central Kitchen
From their site:
350 million meals.
Immediately serving chef-prepared meals to communities impacted by natural disasters and during humanitarian crises.
"When you talk about food and water, people don't want a solution one week from now, one month from now. The solution has to be now."
Info video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUOotFAdA2k
Heart to Heart
From their site:
Heart to Heart International seeks to improve healthcare access in the U.S. and around the world by ensuring quality care is provided equitably in medically under-resourced communities and in disaster situations.
One Acre Fund
From their site:
Helping improve the lives and profits of almost 5 million African farmers each year.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, most people living on $1 a day are farmers. One Acre Fund supplies farmers with the farm supplies and training they need to grow more food and earn more money. 94% of our staff live in the rural communities we serve.
From their site:
Helping improve the lives and profits of almost 5 million African farmers each year.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, most people living on $1 a day are farmers. One Acre Fund supplies farmers with the farm supplies and training they need to grow more food and earn more money. 94% of our staff live in the rural communities we serve.
Note from ge.life: lots of One Acre Fund videos can be found online, but one in particular was super sweet. Its link is HERE.
ECPAT charity working to stop trafficking (7min)
ECPAT charity working to stop trafficking (7min)
ECPAT charity working to stop trafficking (7min)
Don't Look Away: Human Trafficking Awareness (ECPAT)
19min TED Talk on fundraising
ECPAT charity working to stop trafficking (7min)
ECPAT charity working to stop trafficking (7min)
A thought-provoking TED talk from Dan Pallotta. Creates many questions about what is right and wrong, both financially and ethically on how best to fundraise. Follow your heart in how you decide what is best.
Dream Bikes Help Children Learn (1min)
ECPAT charity working to stop trafficking (7min)
ChildFund International
Nutritious foods for 100 million...
Nutritious foods for 100 million...
SANKU (ProtectHealthyChildren.org)
This 2 min video clearly explains how their charity helps improve the health of millions.
20 Days In Mariupol — trailer
Nutritious foods for 100 million...
Frontline PBS has provided the full documentary for free viewing. We've provided the movie on our Ukraine page.
Special needs support
Embrace Kulture
From their site:
Around the world, children with special needs and their families struggle for equality but in Uganda they struggle to survive. Today nearly one million children remain hidden, locked in homes, victims to inhumane healing practices, institutionalized, abused, and excluded.
WE CAN CHANGE THIS
Embrace Kulture is working to dev
From their site:
Around the world, children with special needs and their families struggle for equality but in Uganda they struggle to survive. Today nearly one million children remain hidden, locked in homes, victims to inhumane healing practices, institutionalized, abused, and excluded.
WE CAN CHANGE THIS
Embrace Kulture is working to develop a culture of acceptance in East Africa, where children with special needs are embraced for what makes them unique. Help us create a world with no more hidden children.
Aljazeera story on challenges faced with special needs / Embrace Kulture's involvement.
From their site:
‘I don’t want him to die this way’: Uganda’s hidden children.
Tethered to beds or even trees, Uganda’s intellectually disabled children struggle under stigma and a lack of state care.
Best Buddies
From their site:
Best Buddies International is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development, and inclusive living for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Special needs support
New charity link coming soon :-)
Chance for Childhood
From their site:
We believe that no child should have to fight for a safe, happy childhood. We exist to ensure that every child in Africa can thrive from their early years through to adulthood.
We don’t work alone. Together with partners, supporters, children and their communities, we protect, educate and create lasting change for every
From their site:
We believe that no child should have to fight for a safe, happy childhood. We exist to ensure that every child in Africa can thrive from their early years through to adulthood.
We don’t work alone. Together with partners, supporters, children and their communities, we protect, educate and create lasting change for every child threatened by violence, neglect and conflict. We specialise in ensuring access to inclusive education and safe spaces so that children in Africa can play, grow, learn and thrive.
Special needs support
New charity link coming soon :-)
Mental Wellness help
Supporting the desire to live
Our Mental wellness page provides a little hope, and a few links to organizations which provide crisis care. If you'd like to support these wonderful charities whom help people desire to live, please contact them directly. Thank you.
What do goats have to do with education — Save the Children
By Save The Children fund. Please visit below for ways to help.
World Central Kitchen
350 million meals and counting...
ge.life did some further research on World Central Kitchen via CHARITY WATCH. Impressive statistics and ratings were found. 100% financial / organization rating (A+). 98% of all donations go directly to supplying food, with only 2% being for fundraising and overhead. Not bad!
Character — Inspire children to be superheroes of character, so their values change the World.
If you teach humility and gentleness...
and kindness, compassion and empathy
a new superhero will be born!
ge.life
...they will blossom
To all the people whom choose to be kind and have empathy for those in need; your love does have a major effect and makes life better for all. When the suffering are shown mercy, they shine under the light and emanate new life.