Stimulation Saturday-Ways to give during the holiday season

If your anything like me, you pretty much buy what you want during the year and by the time the holidays roll around, you really don’t need anything. Or, you have friends and relatives who are the same way; there is really nothing they need or want.

I decided this year that I would be giving donations as gifts and asking people in my family to do the same. Except for T. T don’t get off that easy. LOL

I did some research and found some non for profit organizations that really use what they are given to help the world one person at a time.

 

Kiva

Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world. As the money is paid back, you are able to keep loaning the money.

 

Operation Smile

Since 1982, Operation Smile — through the help of dedicated medical volunteers — has provided more than 2 million patient evaluations and over 200,000 free surgeries for children and young adults born with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities.

 

Locks Of Love

Locks of Love is a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 21 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis. Most of the children helped by Locks of Love have lost their hair due to a medical condition called alopecia areata, which has no known cause or cure. The prostheses help to restore their self-esteem and their confidence, enabling them to face the world and their peers.

 

Housing Works

Housing Works is a healing community of people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Their mission is to end the dual crises of homelessness and AIDS through relentless advocacy, the provision of lifesaving services, and entrepreneurial businesses that sustain their efforts.

 

Toys For Tots

The mission of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program is to collect new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year, and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community in which the campaign is conducted.

 

RIF (Reading Is Fundamental)

Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) is the largest children’s literacy nonprofit in the United States. They deliver free books and literacy resources to those children and families who need them most.

 

Note please. I have no affiliation with these organizations. Though I do donate to some of them, I recommend you investigate each site and make your own determination before donating to any organization or cause.

WTH Wednesday

After heading into the city yesterday, on the first day of Spring Break, I realized that there are some things your child REALLY needs to learn before you let them out on their own. - Teach your child how to pump gas. So I don't have to watch them staring at the gas pump, looking lost and wailing,"Insert what... where?" - Teach your child how to drive a stick. Seriously. Better they learn from you then me. Because I'm only going to teach them after they have stalled 5o times on a hill that I can't pass on and already late for a hair appt that I sold my kid to get. And I won't be nice like you - Teach your child some fashion sense. So they aren't running around FL in a non fitting bathing suit with arse and boobs hanging out barely covered by see thru mesh. I don't want to see it. My kids don't want to see it. Some guys may want to see it but only for about 5 minutes and preferably wrapped around a pole dancing to Madonna's-Like A Virgin. - Teach your child some patience. Yes, I know it's all you can bong for $1 at the Oceandeck but sighing, sucking your teeth, & bumping against me isn't going to make the line go faster. But it will ignite my inner ugliness and trust me...you DON'T want that. - Teach your child a proper greeting. "YO BITCH-OVER HERE" at the top of their lungs 2 inches from my ear in Applebee's doesn't quite cut it. -Teach your child that cleanliness is next to godliness. So that I am not standing there gagging because of the overwhelming stench of old beer, sweat, throw up, and polo cologne wafting over me from your kid. -Teach your child to perform bodily functions in private. I know it's shocking...but I really don't want to watch your kid pee belch,throw up, pick their noses, scratch their privates, or adjust anything. -Teach your child not to settle. Because nothing says, "YUCK "more then a young woman hanging on the arm of a leather looking toupee wearing speedo bottom hanging out 60 plus yr old man who keeps patting her arse as she calls him, "Daddy." -Teach your child about music. That loud bass pounding window rattling music may sound good to you but the rest of the world doesn't want to hear how all woman are "biotches to be slapped" at 50,0000 decibels. -Teach your child they can always go home. Because it's time they left here and went home.