Giving 2 Orphans
What do orphans need?Orphans often need basic survival provisions, medication, food, clothing, blankets, housing and protection from dangers and abuse. Many children are orphaned often due to extreme poverty, political strife, abuse and regional disasters. The fortunate ones may live in care centers or orphanages; many others try to survive by begging or prostituting themselves in the streets. In cases of disaster, orphans may live in tents or temporary shelters with minimal subsistence. You can give money, materials from your business or collections, or items that you purchase. Below the list of Needed Gifts, the Giving Resources will help you distribute your gifts to the intended recipients. Your local phone book lists many charities and you can also use the new Google "Local" search tool for charities in a particular city or ZIP code. Check with the Giving Resource or charity to make sure that they can accept and distribute material or in-kind gifts. Even if the item is listed on a wish list, it's best to communicate with the organization in advance of shipping any donated materials. Needed Gifts: |
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| Medication | Many orphans need medication to help them survive day by day. Some have serious illnesses and are in critical need of medical care, medication and treatment for illnesses often caused by years of neglect or abuse. If you or your business can contribute medication, this will be much appreciated. | |
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In various parts of the world, many orphans survive by begging for food or live in care centers with minimal subsistence. Unfortunately, they often live in places where opportunities for earning living wages are hard to find. This problem occurs in the United States and many parts of the world, especially in the developing nations. |
| Clothing | Good clothing is important to orphaned children to protect them from the elements and to help them feel socially acceptable. People who are too poor to afford housing need clothing for themselves and their children. Your local charity specializing in helping orphans and homeless people will advise you on specific items in need. |
| Basic Necessities | Orphaned children are unable to work or earn a decent living. They need your help. In addition to medication, food and clothing, as mentioned above, they need personal care, volunteer services, housing, items for personal comfort such as blankets, pillows, beds, radios, televisions, books, and other items. Toiletries, toothpaste, soap, underwear and clean socks are items needed in temporary shelters, orphanages and in the street. |
| Electronics | Some orphans are in need of electronic devices, such as mobile phones and laptop computers to help them with their education. In addition, many of the helping organizations list office supplies, such as computers, printers and other electronic devices, on their donation wish lists. Several wish lists are provided in the Giving Resources websites listed below. |
| Toys | For children living in orphanages or temporary shelters, a few toys may help to brighten the day. Children need toys to help them get through the day, to exercise and to learn. Whether they play with balls or electronic gadgets, children are less likely to get in trouble or pick on their siblings when they're having fun. The need to play and keep busy is important for children, not just during the holiday season, but every week of the year. For practical considerations, toys should be low maintenance, safe and small. Educational toys are a plus, especially if they're low-maintenance and selected for the right age group, language and cultural context. Children's books in appropriate languages may also be welcomed in temporary shelters and orphanages. |
Giving Resources:
| Bethel Orphanage | Material charitable donations or gifts in kind include food, clothing, books, pencils, chalk, multimedia materials (e.g. TV, computer related resources, stereo, video player, etc.), car, bus and all other tangible, non-financial donations. These can be mailed to Bethel Orphanage’s address, or if possible, can be brought in person when visiting Bethel. Bethel Orphanage, a home to orphan children in Kafue, Zambia, is a charitable organization among Christian charities caring for orphans. AIDS in Africa has increased the burdens of child charity organizations like Bethel Orphanage that help children orphaned from poor families. Orphanages have a challenge of keeping up with the growing numbers of orphans. |
| Coptic Orphans | Coptic Orphans exists to improve the lives of orphans and other vulnerable children in Egypt by providing basic needs, education, and mentoring so that they may realize their potential to become productive members of society. Coptic Orphans programs include both development programs (Valuable Girl Project) and direct-service programs. (Child Assistance, Emergency Housing, 1001 Tales). Our direct-service programs allow us to enter people’s homes, see patterns, and be in touch with the challenges of poverty at the very grassroots. |
| Feed The Children | Feed The Children accepts donations for a variety of products. However, to assist the needs of those we help, we are currently in particular need of truckloads of specific products. Feed The Children is a Christian, international, nonprofit relief organization with headquarters in Oklahoma City, Okla., that delivers food, medicine, clothing and other necessities to individuals, children and families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty or natural disaster. During our 25-year history, Feed The Children has created and developed one of the world's largest private organizations dedicated to feeding hungry people. Last year, Feed The Children shipped 146 million pounds of food and other essentials to children and families in all 50 states and in 57 foreign countries. Feed The Children supplemented 1,040,710 meals a day, worldwide. |
| Global Connections | Thank you for your interest in donating items to our church partners in Latin America and Africa! Your Gifts in Kind contributions help extend the impact of our church partners in the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, South Africa and Zambia. At Willow Creek, our Global Connections ministry is helping to make a difference by partnering with local churches and Christian organizations located in some of the most under-resourced communities of the world. |
| Hopegivers International | Each year Hopegivers makes tremendous progress in reaching our goals. Our key goals for 2006 include the rescue of one million abandoned children from the streets of India and Africa. In 2005, we rescued 8,700 and expect the number to reach 12,000 or more in 2006 as new Hopegivers join us. While Hopegivers is a faith-based non-profit organization, it does not discriminate in anyway - either in program services or staff-hiring. All in need are welcome. Aid is provided regardless of whether the needy share a common faith with us. Hopegivers was founded in an area of India marked by centuries of caste segregation and ongoing communal violence. Much of this is based on caste taboos, idolatry, religious prejudice and superstition. Most of the new countries where Hopegivers is being invited have similar histories of communal hatred and violence. Hopegivers is an international group of believers who have bonded together in a non-profit organization that is both non-governmental (NGO) and a 501(c) 3 tax-exempt Non-profit Organization (NPO). Our president is Dr. Samuel Thomas, the son of our founder, Bishop M.A. Thomas of Kota, Rajasthan, India. |
| Hope's Heart Orphan Foundation | In order to help you maximize your giving, Hope's Heart, through our partnership with Servant Christian Community Foundation (SCCF), has the capacity to receive gifts of the specified non-cash nature. Hope's Heart Orphan Foundation was founded in December 2004 out of the directors' desire to make a lasting impact on the lives of children growing up in Chinese orphanages. After becoming aware of the plight of orphans in China and throughout the world, Heather decided to pursue a degree in Social Work. Her desire is to assist in the facilitation of international adoptions, while making a difference in the lives of orphans waiting for their forever families and those who may never be adopted. After returning from China, Heather Williams and her parents established Hope's Heart Orphan Foundation to assist in funding projects that enhance the lives of orphans in China. They look forward to the day when the foundation will be able to assist in projects in other countries as well. |
| International Guardian Angels Outreach | We appreciate any donation that helps us with our mission. Many donations don't have to be monetary. If you have a service or business that can donate services, materials, airline miles, etc., we would be very excited and appreciative. Please let us know what you have in mind. International Guardian Angels Outreach (IGAO) is a not-for-profit child-placing agency chartered and licensed by the state of Texas. Its benevolent mission is to see the body of Christ reach out and be a voice for orphans around the world by ministering, supporting, encouraging, loving and finding homes for children who need a loving Christian home environment. There are many ways that you can help at IGAO. Become personally involved with our Russian Orphan Exchange and the Project Hope programs, invite us to speak at your church or organization, make a donation of money or in-kind gifts of products and services, volunteer your time as a project or fundraiser helper/coordinator, or become a prayer partner. |
| Lifeline of Hope | Lifeline of Hope invites businesses, individuals and organizations to consider investing in the lives of the orphan children of the world by donating Gifts in Kind to Lifeline of Hope. We gladly accept any new product in good condition that could be used to better the lives of the children, such as: Personal Hygiene products, children's clothing, (including gloves, hats, boots, dresses, pants, shirts, underclothing, tights, socks, etc.), vegetable seeds, gardening tools, hand tools for woodworking, sewing supplies, tractors, tillers, vitamins, diapers, non prescription / non-narcotic medications such as (aspirin, cold medicines, antibiotic creams and topical ointments) Medical supplies such as band-aids, gauze, tape, scissors, etc., quilts, sheets, pillows, etc. Lifeline of Hope operates from Headquarters in Kalispell, Montana as well as our Russian Headquarters in Khabarovsk with facilitators in Uganda, India, Pakistan, and Kyrgyzstan. |
| Love's Bridge | You can mail new or used children's clothing to the following postal address: Post box 5886 Perm 614077, Russia. Shoes, jeans, shirts, socks, hats, gloves and scarves are always especially appreciated. Medical supplies like band aids, vitamins, disinfectants, anti-lice shampoo, cough syrup and fever relief are also needed. However, please avoid sending medicines which might cause customs problems. Thank you! Love's Bridge is a US public charity based in Beaverton, Oregon. Love's Bridge non-profit activities are focused on improving life for street children and orphans in Russia. Love's Bridge works in cooperation with the charitable fund "Zashita". Projects "Children Without a Home", "A Step Towards Home" and "ACT" are run jointly by these organizations. |
| Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, Inc. | “Linking Resources with Needs” Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, Inc. (NCM, Inc.) was created so people can respond to the immediate physical needs of economically disadvantaged individuals and communities around the world. NCM, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization founded in 1990 in the State of Missouri, and encompasses the activities of Nazarene Disaster Response (NDR) and Nazarene Health Care Ministries (NHCM). One child dies every 7 seconds from hunger-related causes. One child loses a parent to AIDS every 14 seconds. 1.1 billion people live without safe water. Yet, there is hope. Your gifts to NCM can extend the transforming love of Jesus to men, women, and children all around the world. |
| Operation Help The Children - OHTC | When donating toys, stuffed animals etc. for the Romanian orphans please consider sending $30 (tax deductible) in an envelope with your gift to help pay for shipping to Romania. Thank you, for your donation. Operation Help the Children (OHTC) was established and incorporated on July 1st, 1999 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization located in West Grove, PA U.S.A.. Our focus is on Romanian children and we are committed to support the needs of orphanages, children's hospitals and homeless and abandoned street children in Romania. |
| Orphan Foundation of America | On October 19, 2005 volunteers, US Senators and Congressmen and their staffers prepared 2,500 Care Packages going out to America 's college bound foster youth! It was a day long celebration focusing on education and career opportunity for these wonderful young people. In 1981, the late Joseph Rivers, a former foster youth from the Syracuse area, started the Orphan Foundation of America (OFA). His goal was simple--help orphans and foster youth as they transition from foster care to young adulthood, with particular emphasis on helping these young men and women attend college and vocational school. |
| Orphan's Hope | Orphans in Ukraine greatly needed clothes, shoes, toiletries, toys and more. You can help us by collecting and shipping boxes of supplies. Mobilize your friends to help these needy kids! We currently have ten staff in the Ukraine, and twelve in Myanmar. Steve Cassidy serves full time as the President of Orphan's Hope. We have a network of volunteers to whom we are very grateful, in addition to some great companies who generously assist us with their services and resources. Orphan's Hope is a not-for-profit organization recognized as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. |
| SOS Children World Orphan Week | Could your company support us in the run-up to WOW with practical gifts in kind? SOS Children looks after children who have lost their family through war, disease, famine and poverty. We give them a home and a family. We care for street children, AIDS orphans, child soldiers, child-headed families and vulnerable children through our outreach projects. HIV/AIDS, war, famine and poverty take parents and siblings from children, leaving them with nothing and no-one. This is the UK charity of SOS Children, the world's largest "orphan and abandoned children" charity. Supported by sponsors worldwide, our children's charity provides a home (in amazing Children's Villages) for around 50,000 children in over 125 countries and helps half a million more through projects around the world, including AIDS orphans, street children and tsunami orphans. |
| The Grace Children's Foundation | TGCF welcomes in kind gifts and services in all three programs: Health Care, Education, and Humanitarian Aid. The Grace Children's Foundation concentrates on providing in-kind assistance for China's orphans in three areas of need: education, medical and surgical care and humanitarian aid. To this end the Foundation solicits funding, donated goods and services, both domestically and internationally, from corporations, foundations and individuals. |
| Tikva Children's Home | To benefit orphaned and abandoned Jewish children of Tikva Children's Home in Odessa, Ukraine we are seeking donations of new and unused children's clothing, boots, scarves, hats and gloves, baby care items, toiletries and bath goods, slippers, socks and school supplies. Over 200 children, ages newborn to 18 need your help! Tikva provides vital services to the Jewish children and the entire Jewish community of Odessa, Ukraine. As a gift-supported, not-for-profit 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization, Tikva relies on contributions from generous and caring individuals, corporations, foundations, and government agencies to support it's activities. |
| World Vision | By partnering with World Vision, your company can help bring hope and comfort to underprivileged children and families in U.S. communities and throughout the world, while taking advantage of attractive tax benefits and public relations opportunities. Gifts-In-kind (GIK) are a company's first-quality, excess inventory donated to assist those in need. In 2002, World Vision procured, processed, and shipped more than $173 million worth of products. World Vision helps transform the lives of the world's poorest children and families in nearly 100 countries, including the United States. Our non-profit work extends assistance to all people, regardless of their religious beliefs, gender, race, or ethnic background. |
| Yeladim.org | This site was first inspired by the plight of Jewish children living in the former Soviet Union. Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, and especially since the 1998 economic disasters in the region, conditions for orphaned, abandoned, and neglected Jewish children have become increasingly desperate. While adults are now generally free to leave these countries, children (without relatives to take them or family members abroad) are not. Several organizations run a handful of orphanages and children's homes in the former Soviet Union. The site is entirely run by volunteers, and does not accept donations. If you wish to make a donation, please contact one of the organizations listed on this site. |
See the Gifts Directory for more suggestions.
You can help orphans and street children by sending this link to your friends:
http://www.2givenow.org/giving/2orphans.htm
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