Free Clicks to Change the World!

I have previously posted about The Greater Good Network's 'Free Clicks' scheme, but they have recently given their website a facelift and added to their 'Free Clicks'.

On the main website, there are 9 tabs for 9 different causes that you can click on to make a free contribution to the 9 causes! Click on as many of the tabs as you are willing/able to and then click on the 'Free Click' buttons on each page, e.g. the hunger site tab (see below).

Basically, the corporate sponsors match the amounts of 'Free Clicks' made by the public by giving to the following projects:

Currently, this is what your free click will provide:

- GreaterGood tab: providing pets (shelter dogs) for vets (war veterans)

- Hunger tab: funding cups of food and clean water

- Breast Cancer tab: funding mammograms for women in need

- Animals tab: helping rescued animals 

- Veterans tab: supporting hungry and homeless veterans to get back on their feet

- Autism tab: providing therapy for children on the autism spectrum

- Diabetes tab: funding research and development

- Literacy tab: giving books to children

- Rainforest tab: saving habitats

Please help to support this initiative! It literally costs you nothing, but a few minutes of your time to make a huge difference to the world and the lives of others around you. Please take the time to donate your free clicks!

You can also donate directly through the website: http://greatergood.com/?utm_source=CTGtabs&utm_medium=TabLink&utm_campaign=TabBar

Blessings!

Ronell x

Christmas Gifts that Keep Giving: The Literacy Site Store

Today’s post is about The Literacy Site Store, which is owned by the Greater Good Network. The Literacy Site Store supports and promotes literacy for children. Reading is a fundamental part of literacy, whether it is an adult reading a book to a child, or children learning to read by themselves. Reading is the foundation to writing, so without a solid foundation in this area, children’s educational future, and ultimately their employment prospects, are greatly diminished.

A simple way to promote literacy for children is to visit The Literacy Site for ‘free clicks’ to donate free books and by buying Christmas gifts from The Literacy Site Store. Each item you buy will fund at least one new book for a child!

I personally really love the jewellery with inspirational messages on it and have purchased many items for myself, or as gifts. You can go to their Shop Green section for organic and recycled products.

They also have a lovely section for Christmas decorations- have a little look!

Blessings!

Ronell x

P.S. remember The Big Give Christmas Challenge 6^th-8^th December!

“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.” {Ecclesiastes 9:10}

Christmas Gifts that keep giving: The Child Health Site Store

Today’s post is about The Child Health Site Store. It is another of the online stores owned by the Greater Good Network. Each item you buy in this online store funds vital healthcare for more than four children.

I personally really love the jewellery with inspirational messages on it and have purchased many items for myself, or as gifts. You can go to their Shop Green section for organic and recycled products.

They also have a lovely section for Christmas decorations- have a little look!

To do something FREE to support the work of the Child Health Site, go to their page and do a free click to provide free health care for children!

To see how your purchases and free clicks help to provide free health care for children, go to their Projects page.  

Stand up for helpless children who are not able to stand up for themselves!

Blessings!

Ronell x

P.S. remember The Big Give Christmas Challenge 6^th-8^th December!

“Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.” {Muhammad Ali}

Christmas Gifts that keep giving: The Autism Site Store

This year, I have a young boy in my class who has ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorder). He is absolutely gorgeous and has a completely hilarious sense of humour! He has adjusted to school beautifully and is making excellent progress. That is not by my doing- I have a fantastic team of people that I work with! I know I could not do it on my own. And I think that is the point that many people miss about working/living with a child that has some kind of special need: no matter how well they are doing, no matter how incredibly rewarding and successful some days are, and no matter the level of planning and organisation you put in, the fact stands that there will be days or times when things will not go according to plan and you will need a break!

This little boy’s mum is an absolute inspiration! And as wonderful, active and proactive she is, the sleepless nights, his siblings, and the pressures that come with  all of this do wear on her and sometimes she just needs a break. She is extremely fortunate that she has an involved and supportive husband, sister and parents that help out when that time comes. This is not the case for everyone…

On The Autism Site Store (Greater Good Network), every item you buy pays for therapy and research. This helps to fund research, therapy, or give much needed respite to families. You can buy items that particularly raise awareness about autism, or you could perhaps directly sponsor/fund the following things:

·      Help a Family Caring for a Child with Autism

·      Contribute to Autism Research

·      Better Medical Care for Children with Autism

·      Therapeutic Family Play Session For Children With Autism

·      Speech Therapy for Children with Autism

·      Help Find a Lost Child with Autism

All children are hard work at times, but children with autism can be extremely challenging in situations that we consider to be simple, every day situations. So support autistic children and their families who are caring for them buy buying from this site, or donating online!

Blessings!

Ronell x

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” {Matthew 11v28}

Christmas Gifts that keep giving: The Veterans Site Store

So today is 1^st December and the official countdown to Christmas has started!

We are headed back to the Greater Good Network’s range of online stores and today, we are looking at The Veterans Site Store. This store supports veterans who may be homeless or struggling to make ends meet. Each purchase on this site pays for at least one meal for a veteran.

I personally really love the jewellery with inspirational messages on it and have purchased many items for myself, or as gifts. You can go to their Shop Green section for organic and recycled products.

They also have a lovely section for Christmas decorations- have a little look!

If you know someone who is/was in the armed forces, and want to show your support and gratitude for what they are doing/have done so that we do not have to take up arms ourselves, support this cause!

Blessings!

Ronell x

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” {John Bunyan}

Gifts that keep giving: The Breast Cancer Site Store

One of the first organisations I blogged about was The Greater Good Network’s The Breast Cancer Site: free clicks for food! Today, I am posting about The Breast Cancer Site Store for gifts that keep giving.

Each of the items that you buy on this site helps give free mammograms administered by clinics and hospitals. So far, 52,859 mammograms have been funded for women in need! They do absolutely gorgeous jewellery and other gifts that I can highly recommend. I own a lot of their jewellery and particularly love the jewellery with inspirational messages on (Christian and otherwise). I have also bought many gifts from this site.

You can even buy Christmas decorations or lovely stocking fillers from this site!

Make a difference this Christmas by buy an ethically sourced gift that keeps giving!

Blessings!

Ronell x

“Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.” {Luke 12:33}

Gifts that keep giving: The Hunger Site Store

One of the first organisations I blogged about was The Greater Good Network’s The Hunger Site: free clicks for food! Today, I am posting about The Hunger Site Store for gifts that keep giving.

Each of the items that you buy on this site funds at least 25 cups of food to feed the hungry. So far, 824,909,397 cups of food have been been given to feed the hungry! They do absolutely gorgeous jewellery and other gifts that I can highly recommend. I own a lot of their jewellery and particularly love the jewellery with inspirational messages on (Christian and otherwise). I have also bought many gifts from this site.

You can even buy Christmas decorations or lovely stocking fillers from this site!

Also check out their Daily Deal for great offers!

Make a difference this Christmas by buying ethically sourced gifts that keep giving!

Blessings!

Ronell x

“What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” {James 2:14-18 }

The Child Health Site: Free Clicks to Provide Medical Care for Children in Need!

Tying into my post from yesterday about supporting underprivileged girls’ futures (http://365days2changetheworld.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/plan-ukorg-international-day-of-girl.html),  today’s post is about helping to provide free medical care for children in need by visiting The Child Health Site, which is another site run by The GreaterGood Network. It is pretty much the same principle as The Hunger Site, The Breast Cancer Site and The Animal Rescue Site free clicks, except that it supports charities that provide free medical care for children in need.

The Child Health Site is a charitable site that sells a whole host of items that donate to supporting these charities. It also has a lot of excellent information on different causes that need supporting and how we can help.

Over 200,000 children die every week from preventable causes! Many millions suffer from preventable, curable diseases such as blindness and malnutrition. Since its launch in 2002, The Child Health Site has supported and helped hundreds of thousands of children directly through the ‘free clicks’ initiative. You can help with this for free too! This has got to be one of my favourite features of the site (which I use every day that I log onto the internet using my laptop): using the ‘daily free clicks’ to donate. Basically, you visit http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=5&link=ctg_chs_home_from_aut_home_sitenav and click on the ‘Click Here to Give - it's FREE’ button, which generates money for charity, paid for by site sponsors. When you click, these companies and groups actually pay for your click! That's 365 free chances each year to help! The Child Health site gives 100% of sponsor advertising fees to their charitable partners- so all of the money generated by your daily clicks will actually go to helping to provide medical care for children in need!

The Child Health Site are particularly focusing on two areas of medical care: (1) Distributing Vitamin A, which strengthens young immune systems, improving resistance to disease. Vitamin A supplementation also prevents as many as 400,000 cases of childhood blindness each year! (2) Administering oral re-hydration therapy to children with severe dehydration, often due to diarrhea, which is a serious killer of children under the age of five worldwide (it causes roughly 1 in 5 child deaths and can kill a newborn within hours).

I have added a bookmark called ‘click’ to my bookmark bar at the top of my web browser to help me remember. Other suggestions would be to set The Child Health Site (http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=5&link=ctg_chs_home_from_aut_home_sitenav) as your home page, or to sign up for a free click reminder email (under the big ‘Click Here to Give - it's FREE’ button). You control how often you get a reminder! Bonus: if you are a new registrant to the GreaterGood Network (owners and operators of The Child Health Site), they will make an extra donation to the cause when you sign up. Funding from this site helps an average of over a 1,000 children every day!

Thank you click sponsors!

Blessings!

Ronell x

“It is not my Father’s will that one of these little ones should perish” {Matthew 18v14}