Send your tax deductable contributions to ...Give Children Hope
P.O. Box 2244
Orangevale, CA 95662-2244
You can be assured that 100% of your donation will go to help a suffering child.
Your donation of $29/month will sponsor a child and change a life.
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WHY GIVE TO OUR ORGANIZATION?
Give Children Hope has a 30 year track record of helping poor children in the 3rd world. We are an organization of volunteers...no one receives a salary. This way we are able to give 100% of your donation directly to poor, needy children. Many help organizations give less than 50% of donated money to the poor...the rest goes to administrative costs including salaries and advertizing.
When you give to Give Children Hope, your contribution of $29 month will go directly to a poor child to help improve their quality of life. All of our small administrative costs are covered by a few generous donors. You can truly feel as though you are passing your contribution directly to a child in need!
When you give to Give Children Hope, your contribution of $29 month will go directly to a poor child to help improve their quality of life. All of our small administrative costs are covered by a few generous donors. You can truly feel as though you are passing your contribution directly to a child in need!
WHY DONT WE GIVE MORE?
A recent Newsweek article by Peter Singer points out correctly that we are much more likely to help a particular child than starving masses. One group in a study was given general information about "food shortages in Malawi causing the starvation of hundreds of thousands". A second group was shown a photo of a 7 year old Malaian girl named Rokia and told that she is desperately poor and that "her life will be changed for the better by your gift". People in the second group gave far more.
"Futility thinking" plays a role. Giving money to help the poor is, we say, just a drop in the ocean. We focus more on those we cannot save rather than on those few we truly can. Did you know that the more we talk about giving the more we encourage others...this is known as the bystander effect..when they see our action they are more likely to act as well....Tell you friends and family that you give!
"Futility thinking" plays a role. Giving money to help the poor is, we say, just a drop in the ocean. We focus more on those we cannot save rather than on those few we truly can. Did you know that the more we talk about giving the more we encourage others...this is known as the bystander effect..when they see our action they are more likely to act as well....Tell you friends and family that you give!
A REMINDER OF THE NEED
UNICEF tells us that 10 million children under 5 die each year from causes that are easily preventable...starvation, disease. That's 27,000 children who die EVERY DAY.
GiveWell.net suggests that for something like the cost of a pair of shoes, you can save the life of one of these children.
Of course it may seem challenging now to talk about saving the truly destitute in the world in the midst of our economic difficulties in the U.S. but we need to rememeber that even in our most trying times we are vastly better off than the %50 of the world that lives on less than $1 a day.
GiveWell.net suggests that for something like the cost of a pair of shoes, you can save the life of one of these children.
Of course it may seem challenging now to talk about saving the truly destitute in the world in the midst of our economic difficulties in the U.S. but we need to rememeber that even in our most trying times we are vastly better off than the %50 of the world that lives on less than $1 a day.
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