How far does your dollar go?!

How far does your dollar go?

1. How much do you spend on gifts (birthdays, christmas, father's / mother's day) every year?

2. Did you know?
- For 19c you can feed a hungry child in school for a day. Over 17000 children die every day because she or he is hungry.
- For $1 you can buy a measles vaccine. Over 1100 people die of measles every day.
- For $2 you can buy the most effective malaria treatments for one person. About 3000 peope die of malaria - a mosquito bite - every day.
- For 20c you can buy a full course of deworming drugs. 300mln people suffer severe health problems and often die because of worms.
- For $15 you can put a child through school for a year (including 1 meal / day). 77 mln people have no access to secondary education until 4th grade.

3. Do you donate? At a price of a movie ticket, a haircut, a cheeseburger, a candy bar, you can save and transform lives.

It's a bargain of a lifetime. What are you waiting for?

For more info see:
www.wfp.org/
www.measlesinitiative.org
malaria.who.int/

1 month ago
For the record: I am not working for any of the above or other charitable organizations, companies or funds.

Let's make this world a better place.

1 month ago
To hop0409 and others:

The American Red Cross: 91.5% on program expenses, 5% administrative, 3.5% fundraising

Doctors without borders: 85.7% on program expenses, 1.4% administrative, 12.9% fundraising

UN World Food Programme: 97.3% on program expenses.

Source: http://www.charitynavigator.org...

I could go on and on. Lots of charities are highly efficient at spending money on their causes and not bureaucracy. The ones I mentioned are 4/4 star charities and I believe make the cut.

i will start off by saying that i agree...i am part of a family of five that has a gross monthly income of 1400 dollars a month...my husband is a cook and i am currently a stay at home mom with our baby and toddler while the oldest is at school...we pay for rent, food, electric, phone/internet, and household neccessities and i will say that we have enough left over to donate a few dollars a month to the less fortunate...because we are not caught up in the consumer race...all that we own is from dupstering and trade or hand me downs...life is much simpler...i see alot of responces on here that sadden me because i do not see how people are soo blind that they do not see how easy it is to give up a few things that they may concider vital (and are not) to help others in this thing called life....we are all rich and are all living pay check to pay check, but it is not hard to give up on buying new and beautiful shiney objects of crap to help others...i always give what i can and it seems like you have posted some very worthy causes that i have not concidered until now .....americans are wierd how they view things....my son and his friend asked me if they could do work around the neighborhood to make money and give it to the poor...i gave them four houses to go to of people that i new and they made eleven dollars and sixty cents....but, one of the people they went to (i know all four) later, came down on me and said that i should not have let them do that....i think that is odd...he assumed that my child was trying to con for bubble gum money....sooo, i asked mt son and his friend if we could go down and buy just one pack of gum for themselves for their hard work, and they responded, "no, what is twelve pieces of gum, while some have nothing to eat." i was pleased with this responce...we have been researching where they would like their money to go, and i will pick one of the organizations that you have listed, and explain to them what having nothing really is...thank you for your time, info, and letting me vent