Money needs to go a long way this Christmas and if you choose to give a charity gift you want to be sure that your donation will make a significant impact. This is where GlobalGiving.co.uk comes in. A website that connects donors to high impact projects all over the world, so giving through GlobalGiving ensures that even £5 can make a difference to someone’s life.
There are two ways to make your donations festive.
1) A donation to a Global Giving project can be given in honor of someone. This makes the Christmas Charity gift donation extra-special. You can choose a project that your friend or relative will love. Perhaps they are a teacher or doctor or have a passion for music. Whatever the interest, GlobalGiving.co.uk offers many different projects to support. The recipient will receive a personalised card from you, or you can print it out and post it!
Start searching for projects and add a project in honour of someone at the checkout.
2) Alternatively, you can give the gift of giving. Give your friend a gift certificate, complete with personalised e-card, and allow them to search GlobalGiving.co.uk projects themselves, choose a project and direct the gift to a project of their interest.
Why GlobalGiving.co.uk?
GlobalGiving.co.uk strives to give a transparent giving experience where both the donor and recipient feel a real impact from the giving process. Charities have long grappled with the issue of giving supporters a sense of the impact of their donations and donors are often left with not truly knowing where their money is going. Meanwhile, outstanding grassroots projects struggle to obtain financing throughout the developing world and are desperate for donors to fund help fund their initiatives.
Globalgiving.co.uk is the perfect opportunity to make even small amounts of money go a long, long way and for a donor to know exactly how that money will help someone.
As little as £5 could buy enough milk and formula to feed 8 babies for a day in a South African home for people with HIV/AIDS. £6 could vaccinate 10 children from diseases in Haiti. £24 could be used to plant trees for five re-housed families in post-Tsunami Sri Lanka.
Projects that are featured on GlobalGiving.co.uk have been well-vetted and project leaders have to commit to spending all funds on the project as well as keeping the project regularly updated. Updates describe what progress has been made and the future plans for the project. Each project gives the donor a sense of exactly what their money will go towards.
