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The URL ("address") of this gift page is www.dailyvisits.com/gift.html Greetings ! This gift is for you. Whether you use this gift or not is up to you. Whether you share this gift or not is up to you. Using it means reading this page, then going to the free donations page. Sharing it means sending somebody the link to this gift page. There's a link near the bottom of this page to email this page's URL (address) to a friend. The Gift: On your behalf I've made a series of daily donations to each of the causes on the following numbered list. (I've been doing it myself anyway, so I did it even more, with you in mind.) They're charitable and humanitarian causes, administered by a number of very reputable, trustworthy, registered non-profit agencies. Below this summary, you can find out how you can check this out, find out more, and continue doing this on your own throughout the year if you consider it to be worthwhile. Also how you can send this gift to a friend -- free to the sender and to the recipient. This is a summary of what I've contributed to, on your behalf: 1) Staple foods distributed through Mercy Corps and America's Second Harvest to hungry people in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North America. 2) Food and other necessities to orphanages, aids care facilities, and centres that care for the aged and disabled, in South Africa, through the non-profit organization Feedsa. 3) Food, medication and vital necessities for needy children in developing countries, through Hungry Children International. 4) Emergency aid to the most needy in countries currently suffering severe drought or war, through DorcusHulp Nederland. 5) Rations of food to hungry, needy children in Argentina, through the non-profit PLC. 6) One hot meal a day to children from the poorest families in the poorest regions of Poland, at the schools they attend, through the Polish Humanitarian Organization's Pajacyk Program. 7) Basic needs and education for the poor in Africa, Asia and Central America, through the Dutch organization WoordEnDaad. 8) Health care for children through Mercy Corps, the Prosthetics Outreach Foundation, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and Helen Keller International. 9) Food, medical attention and education for children, through Children International. 10) Medical care for the Tarahumara Indians, through the Tarahumara Children's Hospital. 11) Support to Amnesty International's Stop Violence Against Women programs focusing on domestic violence as a human rights issue and on violence against women in armed conflict and post-conflict situations. 12) Fund cancer research through Craig Research Labs and the Sloan-Kettering Institute. 13) Support the Breast Cancer Fund's outreach work and environmental health legislative efforts to help eliminate environmental causes of breast cancer. 14) Fund free mammograms for women in need, through the efforts of the National Breast Cancer Foundation. 15) Funding for surgery-related expenses at the Birth Trauma Centre in Ghana, to repair women's obstetric fistulas, through MaterCare International. 16) Provide water supplies and water storage systems for communities and families in the dry regions of Brazil, through the Campaign in Support of Living in Semi-Arid Regions. 17) Free books to children in need, through First Books and Room to Read. 18) Save some of the South American rain forest and the many exotic species of animals that live there. Most "saved" acreage will be included in national, local, or tribal parks and reserves, where it will have the best chance of being preserved in its wild and natural state. 19) Preserve rainforest land through the Rainforest Conservation Fund, the World Parks Endowment, and Rainforest2Reef. These organizations work to preserve rainforest land in Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay and other locations worldwide. 20) Save rain forest land, through The Nature Conservancy. 21) Reforestation in the Brazilian rainforest, through the Guaraquecaba Climate Action Project. 22) Add surrounding rainforest land to the 1.7 million acre Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in Mexico. Adding the land protects it from logging and illegal hunting. 23) Save endangered species of wildlife in Mexico, Canada and Scotland, by helping conservation groups buy and protect the lands where they live. 24) Save various American wilderness areas in their natural state, along with the wildlife that lives there, through the Wilderness Land Trust. 25) Preserve Patagonian coastal reserve land and the wildlife that lives there, through the World Land Trust. 26) Permanently protect old-growth forests from logging, preserving them in their natural state to become a Natural Reserve, in cooperation with the Swedish Government. 27) Reforestation to restore Niagara's fragmented forest ecosystem as part of the Niagara Natural Heritage Corridor program, in cooperation with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. 28) Provide solar energy supplies to selected non-profit organizations in under-developed countries to produce solar energy, through the Solar Electric Light Fund and Energies Renouvelables Org. 29) Remove carbon dioxide (which causes global warming) from the atmosphere, by helping to plant trees in the monarch butterfly forest of Michoacan, Mexico, through the Michoacan Reforestation Fund. 30) The remaining 7 daily donations were made individually, but are described here as a group, since they all have to do with protecting animals. A couple of the programs help abandoned, abused, starving, sick, or injured pets and other domestic animals. One program is to fund media campaigns against the brutal killing and skinning of about 300,000 baby seals annually in Canada. The rest of the programs in this group protect and benefit animals endangered, threatened, or in danger of extinction. They include gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, other primates, tigers, snow leopards, jaguars, other big cats, dolphins, whales, sea turtles, sea otters, and others. The donations in this group are made through reputable agencies such as the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Jane Goodall Institute, the Humane Society, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and others. You can check out these programs and find out more about any or all of them at: www.dailyvisits.com/daily.html Please read that page carefully. That's the page where you can actually continue to use the gift yourself. I like the "Robin Hood" style of these programs. Those of us without an excess of money can get the corporate sponsors to pay money towards the good causes of our choice, like feeding the hungry, curing the sick, improving the environment, protecting endangered animals, and other positive and worthwhile endeavors. Indirect results of using these programs include making corporations pay to help correct past and present negative influences (by greedy people, corporations and governments) on people, the environment, the planet's ecosystems (including animals and plants; terrestrial, aquatic and oceanic), help offset the effects of warfare and the over-use of fossil fuels, develop alternate clean sources of energy, and so on. It's also a tiny step towards helping to promote a more equitable distribution of global wealth. Obviously, you don't have to go through the whole list every day. But there must be something of interest on that page. Something that you'd like to improve. Something that's worth spending a few minutes of your time on, when you think of the beneficial results that you can make happen. You can use this gift yourself, if you think it's worthwhile, at www.dailyvisits.com/daily.html You can also consider passing along this gift page to others who may care. This page is a gift to share with those who care. This page will remain here indefinitely, in case you want to share this gift with others by sending them the URL. The URL of this page is: http://www.dailyvisits.com/gift.html ( www.dailyvisits.com/gift.html )  Click to email this gift's link to a friend or to someone else who may care. Fill in their email address yourself. Feel free to change the default text message of the email to suit the occasion, but leave the link to this page as it is.
You can send this gift for any any occasion of any kind. This gift signifies a willingness to make a small but positive change to benefit the earth and all of its inhabitants -- and to let others know that they can too. We keep no record of any email addresses or messages sent from here. Please share this gift with anyone who you think may be interested in helping out with any of these worthwhile projects at no cost to them or to you. More people participating means more positive improvements on this planet that we all share. Thanks for participating, for caring, and for sharing. |