Easy ways to support good causes

Supporting Good Causes

A non-food post, but I just wanted to share some easy ways to support good causes financially without costing you a penny!


everyclick

Use everyclick for your ordinary internet searches (it's powered by Yahoo) and each one you make will raise a small amount for your nominated good cause (there are over 200,000 to choose from), whether it is a small local charity to a national organisation. You can track your contribution and it's quite satisfying to see it add up!

(If it's a small organisation, it may be worth checking that they know about everyclick to access the funds raised for them!)

www.everyclick.com


freerice

Freerice supports the United Nations World Food Programme.

Choose your quiz subject (for example vocab, languages, countries, flags, chemistry, famous paintings, landmarks...) and for each question you get right, grains of rice are donated to help end hunger.

You can track your contribution  - you see a bowl fill up for each session, or your all time contribution if you register.

I often play this when half watching tv, and my daughter quite enjoys it too - educational, worthy and a computer game!

www.freerice.com

lendwithcare

Lendwithcare is an initiative from CARE International UK, an aid and development organisation.

You can support an entrepeneur in the developing world with a mico-loan for their business Choose who you support from their profiles from a range of countries and businesses (for example food production, agriculture...)

Although this one isn't quite  no-cost as you need to make a loan of at least £15, I am including it since you can have it repaid if you don't want to keep loaning it back out to others (through recycling I have made loans totalling about six times the value of the amount I have originally contributed)

www.lendwithcare.org

You might also be interested in Something for Nothing

For more ideas, follow me on twitter @Tyne_Teas

Please visit my Intro post for more about my blog and me - I hope you enjoy my recipes : )