How to Help the People in Need

Donating money

Collect money. Not 20 dollars a day, just the change you find around your house. When you find money on the street and you don't know who it belongs to, collect and help save someone's life. Put it in a piggy bank or a jar and put it someplace safe. Donate that money to a local food pantry or a charity. Get your parent's permission to raise and donate money, if you're a child.

Donate some of your income or savings. Make a regular donation to a charity of your choice from your own money. You can choose from people in need in your own area, through to people in need overseas.

Donate food. Food banks and other welfare sources often need food to feed people in need. Check the website for a list of needed items, to ensure that what you give is what is needed. Fresh food is often missing from such places, so check whether this is something that you can provide.

Giving your time

Be someone's hero for the day. Go to a nursing home, talk to the elderly, and put a smile on their faces. Or visit people in hospital or a hospice. Sharing time to interact with people will give you a feeling you will never forget.

Donate your time to help make or supply meals. Work at a soup kitchen or welfare kitchen for the needy. Try to allocate a regular time when you can turn up and help out.

Make things. If you're good at making things, give your time to create useful items. This might be clothing, blankets, hats, food, etc. Do whatever it is is that you're good at and help out.

Helping Online for Free

Play FreeRice. This is a simple website where you answer questions to donate rice to people in need. They work through the UN World Food Programme. Every time you answer a question, ten grains of rice are donated. There are a variety of categories, including vocabulary and geography.

Use click-to-give websites such as GreaterGood. When doing this, you want to be sure they are giving to good charities.

Download the Tab for a Cause extension. This is an extension where every time you open a new blank tab, a customizable dashboard with a small ad comes up as your default new tab page. The advertisement money is then apportioned to charities based on percentages of user votes (one new tab is one vote.)