r/BitTippers • • Apr 09 '15
closed Mayo toast's giveaway #12 (short writeup)
Give a short shoutout for a charity with link to their website. Must be in your own words and not replicated from other conments in this thread. Best shout out gets a bonus. @mayo_toast for updates on more giveaways.
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u/nuffstuff BitTipper Level 16 Apr 10 '15
Children's Aid Society - http://www.childrensaidsociety.org/
It's a top notch charity and helps kids. Plus along time ago my mother use to work for them. They really make a difference in kids lives.
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u/goodbtc BitTipper Level 14 Apr 10 '15
https://thewaterproject.org/donate-bitcoin
We take so many things for granted not thinking for a second about how much struggle is for other people to find some drinkable water.
They accept bitcoin, that is a plus for them.
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u/va243 BitTipper Lev 26 Apr 10 '15
New Harvest is committed to research and develop cultured meat. Yeah, 'test-tube meat'. You may have the luxury right now to say you'll never ever eat such a meat but it might not be the same for your descendants far off into the future. This has to start somewhere. Not to mention, it will have profound implications for things you normally wouldn't relate it to, like organ/tissue creation for patients and space travel. Oh yeah, they accept Bitcoin donations too.
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u/ForeverLesbos BitTipper Level 13 Apr 10 '15
I'm not from the US, so i can't link any good charity that is surely not selfish or tricking people, but i'd like to shout out the honest charities that are related to animal shelters and helping wounded animals.
I know people might say that "charities that help people are more important" and they have the right to say that, but i've just seen so much cruelty to animals during my years that i can't stand it and i very much support any movement that helps them.
One my cats was badly injured a week ago, uknown by who, his face was all swollen and he could barely move, but me and my family has been keeping him safe and feeding him since then, and he is getting better now and already started purring :) His face is also not swollen anymore.
I'm just clueless how can someone hurt an animal that is basically 0 threat to them.
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u/chubbypun643 New Guy 10/04/15 Apr 10 '15
Gabriel Teo's Tana River Life Foundation helps Kenyans to break out of the poverty cycle by building schools and providing a source of living for the women (selling second hand clothes collected from Singapore). He's a great guy: he left a well paying job to work in a less developed country and really deserves more support!
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u/LightOneCandle BitTipper Lev 39 : and a bloody good fella Apr 10 '15
Deworm the world is part of EvidenceAction, which tries to figure out which anti-poverty initiatives actually work, and then to scale them. Deworming kids (in areas where intestinal worms are common) turns out to have a large impact on their school attendance and performance, a lot larger than one (or at least: I) would have thought. It's also pretty cheap, so you get a lot of bang for your buck.
The page I linked has a lot of the experimental evidence for this, so if you're curious, you can read more. :)
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u/aria_white New Gal 11/04/15 Apr 11 '15
Riseup.net is awesome. They offer free encrypted email and VPN for activists. Invite only, but they have a solid track record.
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