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As a class, we talked about donating to a charity. I did some research to find a charity. I came across many charities for poverty but there was 1 that really stuck out to me, Oxfam America. This organization isn't just about trying to feed hungry families but help with poverty and injustice. Helping with injustice helps the people feel safer in their own community. Oxfam America is America based and works all over the world. This link goes right to their homepage. http://www.oxfamamerica.org I recommend everyone looks at this and explores the website. To explain the website, there are 3 tabs, Explore, Take Action and Donate. Explore brings you to all of the stories Oxfam America has been involved in. There are different categories. Take Action gives different options to help out and spread the word. There are options to campaign, host events and more. Donate is pretty self explanatory. Donations can be money right to the organization or if you click Oxfam America Unwrapped that brings you to a store where a water pump, building of a girls' school, school supplies, soap, first aid kit, ducks and goats, planting of a vegetable garden and more can be bought. This works because we pick what we want to buy, whoever helped you would get a free card showing your appreciation and the gift would be sent to a country that needs that help. I think this is a great organization we could look into.

There is also an organization called Comic Relief. Comic Relief is based in the UK and helps children get vaccinated against 5 major diseases, malaria included. Comic Relief is based on 5 themes: better futures, healthier futures, safer lives, stronger communities and fairer society. The goals are women ages 15-49 and children under 5 have improved life, disadvantaged children and adults again access to and attain, a good quality of education, women and girls are equal and respected member of society, slum dwellers have an improved quality of life, children and young people at risk are safer with greater opportunities to increase skill, people affected by HIV have an improved quality of life and poor people can improve their income through trade, enterprises and employment. Comic Relief is very big, they started Red Nose Day. It’s the day, every two years, when people across the land can get together and do something funny at home, work and in school. This is a great organization also.
I read into so many charities and here are some links. The first is an article about weapon distribution throughout the Southern Sudan and its becoming very unsafe. The rest are links to webpages. This is a big issue but we can help end this!

• https://news.vice.com/article/weapons-are-streaming-into-south-sudan
• http://www.oxfamamerica.org
• http://www.comicrelief.com/about-us
• http://ar.care.org
• https://www.sendacow.org/how-we-work