I donate monthly to the distress centre. I got an email recently and apparently I've been doing it for a decade?
Dang, time flies. All I did was divert my money from Red Cross to them.
I put some money up for Brown bagging for kids last month. Man... I'm considering putting up a monthly donation for them too. I forget what the stats were about the bags they do per month in Calgary, but honestly, too damn high! As much as sometimes I wish finances weren't as tight, at least I just have tight finances and I don't have to choose basic necessities and go without food.
It literally reminds me of some cartoon I watched as a kid and pulls at my heart strings as a result. It was some PSA about poverty being around us in the developed world or something (some VHS we borrowed from the library with half a dozen PSAs on it). I wish I could find this video on Youtube. I wanted to show it to my kids. At one point in the cartoon, a sad kid with no lunch reaches into the garbage can for a slice of orange that another had thrown out as a "joke" to the shock of his classmates. Ugh... I've been there. No kid deserves to go hungry. I've asked my son to try and identify kids like this. He says he is not aware of any in his class for kids with no food, but the moment he does, we won't hesitate to pack double lunches for him to share.
I've donated to education matters before, but I wasn't as huge of a fan in being unable to know what the funds were being diverted to. Instead I occasionally buy things that I hear are needed and I tell my kids to share it in their classes.
EDIT: I seem to recall the music that was in the video. I should hum it to an online tool and see if it can give me a lead on what the videos were.