“I already have way too much”

Told frou_frou I’d send her links for birth­day present buying that involved dona­tions not gifts and then figured I may as well post them here instead.

TEAR is the one demiurgically_m used for my end-of-year gift this year. They’re Chris­tian, but still pretty inter­est­ing. You can buy a family some­thing as small as an organic kit­chen garden or as big as a goat, a cow or sup­plies to help an orphaned family for a year.

Plan’s Trib­ute Gifts let you make dona­tions on behalf of someone else. Plan is all about kids and is non-reli­gious and non-polit­ical. You can make a gen­eral dona­tion or donate to a pro­ject such as san­it­a­tion and water work in Viet­nam or Migrant Women Work­ers in Indonesia.

The Inter­na­tional Women’s Devel­op­ment Agency isn’t set up to take gift dona­tions in quite the same way, but there’s a spot on the one-off online dona­tion page to put someone’s e‑mail address to let them know you made a dona­tion on their behalf. IWDA’s appeal this year is build­ing safe space for women escap­ing across the Thai/Burma border from rape and sex slavery. In addi­tion to shel­ters and care, IWDA is paying to train local women in sur­vivor care so the com­munity can become self-supporting.

By the way: Happy birth­day, Mum. I’m buying some kids in India help with early child­hood edu­ca­tion on your behalf.