Holiday Giving-5 Great Last Minute Online Gifts To Help Charities

by Sudha Krishna | December 21, 2009 at 11:16 am
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Giving to non-profit and charities during the holiday season is on the list for many of us but now that we are approaching last minute gift territory, taking the time to research which charities to donate to can be challenging
So, non-profit organizations are making it easier and in some cases fun to give online. Donors now have alternative ways to give online.  You can donate a "gift" to  someone on behalf of a non-profit. It is called alternative giving and it is a great way to give some truly special to the people in your life, especially if it is at the last minute, all you have to do is go online and with a few mouse clicks you are giving a gift that matters.
Here now is a small list of 5 Non-profit organizations with cool alternative giving programs.
1. What I Did Not Buy | BRAC
What I Did Not Buy is a great way of showing the impact of choosing not buy something. Skip those $150 dollar pair of shoes well that let's you provide HIV/AIDS supplies for those who desperately need it. BRAC is one of the largest NGO's  (non-governmental organization) in the world. It is non-profit that started in Bangladesh and it specializes in small loans to the poor. It treats the poor as customers who need access to credit to make their lives better. BRAC has delivered over 5 billion dollars in loans and operates in everything from agriculture, to education, to health care, helping some of the worlds poorest in some of the world's hardest hit areas. 
2. Gifts of Water | WaterCan
WaterCan is a Canadian charity that helps some of the poorest people in the world get access to clean drinking water and hygiene. It costs $25 to give a person access to clean drinking water for LIFE. WaterCan works in Ehtiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
3. Oxfam Unwrapped | Oxfam
For $50 you can give the gift of a goat -that is right a goat. In poor villages around the world a goat is a an invaluable resource. Oxfam is large international development agency.
4. Humane Gifts | Humane Society International
The ideal gift for the animal lover in your life. A $25 dollar gift pays for the care of puppy that has been rescued from a puppy mill.
5. Gifts of Light | CAMH
Thirty-five dollars buys a blanket some one suffering from bi-polar disorder or other related mental health diseases. The Canadian Association of Mental Health Gifts of Light catalogue is a thoughtful way of helping those who suffer from mental health disorders.

Those are just five non-profits organizations who have alternative gift catalogues. So in your holiday giving budget make one of your gifts to your friends or family, a gift that matters, a gift that makes a difference.

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Apostle Shada Mishe

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The LORD GOD has given me seven steps to isolate the active ingredient, which is soft and metallic in nature and has a carbon- uranium-sulfur-(classified)-phentolamine configuration or structure. This is similar to Federick Kekule and the discovery of the benzene ring where he dreamt the structure. As an antiviral and 'natural radioactivity' producing agent, AMBUSH is also effective against leukemia, lupus and HPV. Here I am saying that I have 'GIVEN' AMBUSH in the same 'strength' and dosage to patients with leukemia, lupus and HPV. A 35 year old male with HIV found it difficult to impossible to urinate was put on 'green tea' and water while the doctors contemplated prostrate surgery. One of the doctors gave him my number , I sent him a supply of AMBUSH an d he has not been given any more ARV's, since taking AMBUSH 18 months ago, is in 'good' health and has expressed a willingness to be examined by HIV investigators like many others who have taken AMBUSH. I have sent this 'IDEA' to most HIV research agencies, scientist of the field, universities, hospitals, clinics, politicians and news agencies to which it is REJECTED because the name of THE LORD GOD is mentioned. He has steered me scientifically through the processes such as which plant and how to produce the active ingredient. What are the odds of a Florida Pharmacist picking a plant would contain the CURE for HIV/AIDS ? I have never charged any of the people for their supply of AMBUSH but a life saving has been spent on the project with NO renumeration from any sources because AMBUSH falls outside the walls of modern medicine and research. PROPOSAL: My proposal is that I PROVE that AMBUSH CURES HIV/AIDS by giving it to a number of END-STAGE or DRUG-RESISTANT people and the scientific community watches their recovery. This proposal addresses the problem in that I have already outlaid the results to be obtained. This IDEA is unconventional in that the scientific community has rejected AMBUSH because I say it is GOD given. Secondly if I wrote it according to certain standards, then it might be peer reviewed. However, THE LORD GOD has also shown me that there are five enzyme systems associated with the virus, reverse transcriptase, protease, fusion and two more of which causes the virus to be AIRBOURNE. This means that without DIVINE intervention mankind and ALL warm- blooded mammals will be extinct in a number of years. The PROOF of what I am saying is found in scientific papers wherein it is found that when the protease cuts the viral strands, it cuts it at DIFFERENT lengths EVERY time, to which it should always be a valine at the end but is a different amino acid every time. This is why it is IMPOSSIBLE to produce a VACCINE. Since this is NOT a hypothesis but there are about 400 individuals who have taken AMBUSH, here lies a vast area in which to check, recheck and confirm that AMBUSH CURES AIDS. Let it be mentioned that during the HIV reproductive cycle, reverse transcriptase converts viral RNA into DNA compatible to human genetic materials. Thus the human DNA has been 'hijacked' and since each person has a DIFFERENT DNA, then the new viral copy is unique to that person which shows that each individual has a DIFFERENT STRAIN of the virus. Consider two HIV positive people swapping viral strains and increasing its complexity with multiple partners. It can also be proposed that they be revisited as proof that the strain or strains that they had were 'killed' at the time of taking AMBUSH considering that a person can catch as many different strains as there are people who are infected by HIV. 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