DEFINITIONS 

sponsor (verb) [T]
to support a person, organization or activity by giving money, encouragement or other help.

donation
noun [C or U]
when money or goods are given to help a person or organization.

Definitions from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

The following charities I would like to inform you about to instill your desire to support their worthy cause.  If you find within your heart, the ability to support and give to them, it can help serve to lighten the burdens of their recipients and our entire world. This is not a mere attempt to raise funds, but to raise awareness and consciousness, an attempt to inform, to open hearts toward the specific need of others, as well to extend help literally by volunteering support, be it through prayers, a helping hand or help financially. 

*Upon deciding to donate: please make your donations direct to these organizations.

Agni Yoga (Sacred Heart Fire) believes in the power of community and support. 

Join a trusted community and connect with like-minded individuals who share 

your passion for giving and wellness.

A Special Thanks To You For Giving  

***FOR MOST RECENT DISASTERS AND NEED FOR RELIEF (see below  and videos)

MAKE WAR NO MORE!!!

UKRAINE'S STOLEN CHILDREN - full documentary

By Carlotta Gall, Oleksandr Chubko and Cora Engelbrecht
Photographs by Daniel Berehulak Dec. 27, 2023

Thousands of Ukrainian children, some of them orphans, were taken to Russia after the war started. Many were sent to recreational camps in Russia by their parents to escape the shelling; they were then stuck there, sometimes for months, waiting for their mothers to bring them back. Others were fostered into Russian families, led to believe that Russia had saved them after their parents had abandoned them. This remarkable doc explores the journey of these children, and the parents trying to bring them home.   Comments by Journeyman Pictures trailer.

CHILDREN OF SUDAN

Sudan is now the largest child displacement crisis in the world, with a recorded 3.5 million children fleeing widespread violence in search of safety, food, shelter and health care—most within Sudan—while hundreds of thousands are sheltering in sprawling make-shift camps in neighboring countries.

'WE HAVE NOTHING': Children face starvation in Gaza as supplies run out

CNN.com

Famine in northern Gaza is imminent as more than 1 million people face ‘catastrophic’ levels of hunger, new report warns

'Oh my God': Women shield children's eyes from horrific scene in Haiti

Lahainie, Maui Hawaii Wildfires

Direct Relief Efforts

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Hurricane Idalia

Climate Change and Disaster Relief

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1) NAACP

As the world faces unprecedented times and new realities during this global pandemic, and incidents of hate and domestic terrorism are perpetuated leading to routine brutalization of African-Americans, the health and safety of our people are at an unparalleled risk. Senseless hate crimes and incidence of COVID-19 cases and deaths spreading throughout the Black community display the continuance of systematic racism and privilege granted to white people in America. Our communities are experiencing the worst outcomes on all fronts. From every location reporting data in the nation, African Americans are being harmed—both in infections and fatalities—in higher percentages.

We must fight for equality during this uncertain time. We are done dying.

A NATION IN PERIL

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GIVING THANKS, GIVING BACK!

On June 17, 2015, a disaster occurred in the United States of America. It wasn't a disaster like others our country had experienced, but when a gunman walked into Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, SC, and claimed nine lives simply because of their race, it was a disaster. Your donations to the Fund will provide much needed relief for this crisis by helping to build a memorial for the Emanuel 9 and providing grants to those who are doing great work to raise awareness about the causes and effects of racial divisiveness, promote social and criminal justice reform, and help eliminate racial bias and discrimination.

*Learn more about the fund

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2) REFUGEE CRISIS

                          REFUGEE CRISIS

  Photograph: Herbert P. Oczeret/EPA, Bicske Hungrey 

Messages to the world from the hundreds of displaced people waiting to get to Austria and Germany, and now reflected in the United States immigration 'zero-tolerance' policy.

Separation of children from their parents is unacceptable.  The current Trump administrations's 'zero-tolerence' immigration policy, must correct this abhorrent sanctioned ICE procedure at the border and immediately re-unite these families and accept their request for shelter and asylum from the ravages of violence and threats of imminent harm and probable death at the hands of the ruthless (domestic violence, gang and drug cartels, mobsters & terrorist) within their country.
Protesters have rallied across the U.S., demanding that the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agency be abolished. 

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American Red Cross

American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)

Americares

Direct Relief

Habitat for Humanity

The Humane Society

Unicef

United Way

World Central Kitchen

3) NEPAL'S BASIC FOOD, SHELTER, MEDICAL AND STREET CHILDREN SUPPORT.  

GAYATRI FUND FOR NEPAL'S HOPE

After the earthquake in Nepal, hundreds of thousands of people are homeless..  Villages are completely destroyed in some areas.  The need for clean drinking water, food, shelter and medical care is urgent.

Can you help?  This campaign has been created by Deva Premal, Miten, with Manose, who was born and raised in Nepal; along with Eva Holmberg (founder of Society for Street Children in Nepal--

www.gatubarnnepal.net

www.facebook.com/gatubarnnepal

We already have the network to bring your help to where it is most needed without middlemen, fees. or operation costs.  We will personally ensure that any funds tax you 

donate will be put to maximum constructive use.

Thanks and Blessings

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AMERICARES

AMERICARES is meeting the health needs of children and adults affected by the war through its support of health centers and organizations in Ukraine, as well as Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Over the past year, Americares has provided aid valued at more than $70 million to 74 partner organizations assisting those caught in the humanitarian crisis.

Highlights of the response to date include:  

• Shipping more than 300 tons of medicine and relief supplies valued at more than $63 million to 32 partner organizations and first responders in Ukraine;  
• Supporting more than 17,000 individual crisis intervention sessions for internally displaced people, military personnel, veterans, and refugees with mental health issues;  
• Awarding more than $1 million in funding to provide heat and power to health facilities in Ukraine, including more than 50 generators; 
• And donating medicine and supplies valued at $3.3 million to 20 U.S-based volunteer medical teams traveling to Poland, Romania and Ukraine. 

AmeriCares Mobilizing Response to Deadly Nepal Earthquake

Program Expenses
Highly reliable charity: Americares Percent of the charity’s total expenses spent on the programs and services it delivers) 98.2%

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How will this project solve this problem?

All donations to this fund will support earthquake recovery and relief efforts in Nepal. Initially, the fund will help first responders meet survivors' immediate needs for food, fuel, clean water, hygiene products, and shelter. Once initial relief work is complete, this fund will transition to support longer-term recovery efforts run by local, vetted local organizations.

Potential Long Term Impact

We believe that organizations that are deeply-rooted in local communities are often in the best position to provide long-term support for disaster victims. By funding the relief efforts of local organizations, donations to this fund have the potential to build stronger disaster-response capacity so that these organizations are better equipped to face future disasters. GlobalGiving will post reports about how funds have been used and will email these reports to donors and subscribers.

Program Expenses
(Percent of the charity’s total expenses spent on the programs 
and services it delivers) 97.2%

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4) FEMA

FEMA's mission remains: to lead America to prepare for, prevent, respond to and recover from disasters with a vision of "A Nation Prepared." 

SUPPORT FEMA'S  MISSION BY CALLING YOUR REPRESENTATIVE!

OUR MISSION

FEMA’s mission is helping people before, during and after disasters, and our core values and goals help us achieve it.

Strategic Plan

The goals and objectives laid out in the 2022-2026 Strategic Plan will help ensure success for our agency, the emergency management community, and those we serve. The Plan outlines three bold, ambitious goals to meet this challenge:

1. Instill equity as a foundation of emergency management
2. Lead whole of community in climate resilience
3. Promote and sustain a ready FEMA and prepared nation

Core Values

The core values that guide our agency can be found in our capstone doctrine, “We Are FEMA” or Publication One (Pub 1).

Pub 1 helps us understand our role in the emergency management community and gives our agency direction in how we conduct ourselves each day.

History of FEMA

FEMA was officially created in 1979 through an executive order by President Jimmy Carter. Our history can be traced as far back as 1803.

On March 1, 2003, FEMA became part of the Department of Homeland Security. Learn more about our history.

5)  HAITI

  YOU CAN STILL HELP IN HAITI

CNN's David Culver reports on community-led vigilante killings in Haiti's capital city Port-au-Prince amid rising gang violence.

04:27 - Source: CNN

You can also text donations for Haiti relief from your cell phone. 

In addition to your donation, standard text messaging fees will apply.

Red Cross: Text HAITI to 90999 ($10 donation)
UNICEF: Text UNICEF to 20222 ($10 donation)
Clinton Foundation: Text HAITI to 20222 ($10 donation)
Yéle Haiti: Text YELE to 501501 ($5 donation)
United Way: Text HAITI to 864833 ($5 donation)
Intl Medical Corps: Text HAITI to 85944 ($10 donation)
World Food Program: Text: FRIENDS to 90999 ($5 donation)
UN Foundation: Text CERF to 90999 ($5 donation)
Compassion Intl: Text DISASTER to 85944 ($10 donation)
Intl Rescue Committee Text HAITI to 25383 ($5 donation)
The Salvation Army: Text HAITI to 52000 ($10 donation) 

From Canada:
Salvation Army in Canada: Text HAITI to 45678 ($5 donation)
Plan Canada: Text HAITI to 30333 ($5 donation) 

From the United Kingdom:
Disasters Emergency Committee: Text GIVE to 70077 (£5 Pounds) 

From France:
French Red Cross: Text HAITI to 80222 (1 Euro) 

6) CLINTON FOUNDATION-WAYS TO GIVE

When we're responding  to a natural disaster to help people at home or abroad, leading doctors and nurses into the remote mountains of Haiti, developing lab services in safety-net clinics or shipping hundreds of  tons of aid and supplies around the world-we are improving global health & expanding access to  healthcare for those in need.

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7) HURRICANE RECOVERY PROGRAM

American Red Cross Relief Fund:  News or Donate Now!

• Call the American Redcross 1-800 Help Now
• Resources for schools, staff and kids

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8) SHELTER BOX

A non-profit relief program administered by  the Rotary Clubs of Helston-Lizard, Crornwall, It is supported by the concern and grassroots generosity of individual US citizens and organizations; service & community groups, schools, corporate and private foundations.  

Find and link to our Worldwide Affiliates

Make a secure online donation to deliver shelter, warmth and dignity to families.  

See where we are working to select your area for care. 

• More informaton: http://www.shelterboxusa.org

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A BRIEF REFLECTION ON THE TSUNAMI DISASTER

Buddhism teaches us to accept what happens without resentment or blame; instead, think of what we can do. Grand Master Wei CHueh has directed Chung Tai Chan Monastery and our 80-plus Zen centers in Asia and the U.S. to raise money for the tsunami disaster. To this date, we have donated nearly US$100,000 to Thailand, Sri Lanka, and other areas. But, besides working to alleviate the immediate suffering, let us also work from the cause to prevent future suffering.
 

First, by education: teach our youth the interdependence of all life and even as children, they can care and contribute. For example, they can save up their allowance and snack money for a month and make a donation. What they learn through this effort will be of much greater value than the money itself. 

Second, Buddha teaches that greed, anger, and ignorance, which we all possess, are the ultimate causes of bad karma and human suffering. So we should, and will, continue to teach through Buddhist principles and meditation how to be calm, content, tolerant, and understanding. This is the ultimate relief effort--to prevent disasters. Let us focus on the outpouring of kindness that has occurred and keep up our hope for humanity!

If you have questions or like further information regarding the forementioned, A Brief Reflection On The Tsunami Disaster, please contact Chung Tai Zen Center of Sunnyvale. 

Enso, by Kazuaki Tanahashi

9) HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL

• Considered one of the top 100 non-profits whose dollars make the greatest impact and of the top five in donor approval for the best job accomplishing their mission.  

Lonavata, India                                  Jimmy Carter Work Project (JCWP) 

Faith Works: A Partnership                               Africa: 25 Years  
                                                   

 Mexico                                                                Hurricane Katrina
                                                      

  
Tsunami                                                     China: Rebuilding After the Quake  
                                    

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10) WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME

• The World Food Programme is part of the United Nations system and is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.

Hunger Map 2021 | World Food Programme.

Hunger can be eliminated in our lifetimes.  See what is being done.

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11) TIBET HOUSE TRUST 

• The official Tibetan Charity inaugurated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in September, 2009.  Its purpose is to preserve the Tibetan culture, identity and rehabilitate refugees.

Patron and Founder: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Registered Charity in State of New York, Governed by the Board of Trustees

  TIBET HOUSE TRUST:   Dalai Lama    

“Like physical education, learning emotional hygiene is in great need today.”

         ~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

World Peace and Non-Violence:: Never Give Up

Educating The Heart

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12) AGNI YOGA SOCIETY

• The Agni Yoga Society was founded in 1920 by Nicholas Roerich and his wife Helena.  It is a non-profit educational institution incorporated in 1946 under the laws of the State of New York, and is supported entirely by voluntary contributions and membership dues.

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13) NICHOLAS ROERICH MUSEUM

• Nicholas Roerich Museum is a major center for the exhibition of paintings by Nicholas Roerich, making available many reproductions of his art and numerous books about his life and work. The Museum is also a cultural center, presenting a broad program of concerts and poetry readings. A major aim of the Museum's activities is to promote awareness of Roerich's ideas about art and culture, as embodied in the Museum's symbol and its motto, Pax Cultura, Peace Through Culture. 

Enjoy cultural events, featuring free concerts, poetry readings, 

tour the museum of arts displaying paintings of selected works!

Admission to the cultural events is free, though donations are welcome.
  

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Exceptional Notation:

********Special Recognition and Profound Appreciation is given to the  Agni Yoga Society and The Nicholas Roerich Museum for their continual access to the interested public, masterful inspired literature and cultural works of art which attest to the "Highest" reaches attainable to all Our striving ones.  ...Hierarchy

*Agni Yoga Society

**Roerich Pact

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  Making a Difference Starts Here: Charity Navigator 

Providing Basic Needs:
• Clinton Foundation
• American Red Cross
• Unicef Usa
• Care
• United Nations Foundation/CERF
• World Vision
• International Relief Teams
• Save the Children
• Catholic Relief Services
• Samaritan's Purse
• American Jewish World Services  
• World Concern
• Mercy Corps
• Operation Blessing International
• Haiti Children
• Oxfam America
• United Way Worldwide
• Episcopal Relief & Development
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
• Love a Child
• Project Hope
• Concern Worldwide
• Adventist Development and Relief Agency  
• World Relief
• Kids Alive International
• ADRA International
• World Relief

Saving the Children:

• War Kids Relief  
• Aschiana Foundation

Source: Impact Your World, CNN.com

Providing Shelter:
• Shelterbox
• Habitat for Humanity International
• International Organization for Migration
• Pan American Relief

Providing Medical Aid:
• Direct Relief International  
• Medical Teams International
• Doctors Without Borders
• Operation USA
• MAP International
• World Health Organization
• Americares
• Project Medishare
• Partners in Health
• Healing Hands for Haiti
• Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Haiti
• International Child Care
• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
• Heart to Heart International
• Operation Smile  
• MedShare International

Providing Food:
• World Food Programme
• The Salvation Army
• Compassion International
• Food for the Poor
• World Water Relief
• Action Against Hunger
• Food For the Hungry

Ending Modern-Day Slavery:

• Free the Slaves
• Anti-Slavery International

American Red Cross
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
Americares
Direct Relief
Habitat for Humanity
The Humane Society

Unicef

United Way
World Central Kitchen

I will be waiting here 

For your silence to break 

For your soul to shake 

For your love to wake.

-- Rumi

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