Why would help people how to distinguish honest funds against fraud and why small regular payments to one-time best, but larger. We investigated with aggregator taxi "Sitimobil"And the project"good kilometers».
Why is it important to do charity?
Short: each of us may need help in a difficult moment.
In Russia, a lot of people who need support: orphans, the homeless, people with severe and incurable diseases, single pensioners. Each of them need help, but receive it, not all - of the state of resources is not always enough.
Philanthropic foundations take on part of the job: looking for money for expensive treatment, the clinic needed to buy equipment, interact with officials and try to make the system of mandatory health care more effective. Such funds live by donations. If money is not, they can not work, and thousands of people will be left without help.
How to choose who to help?
Short: find the profile fund, to explore the site and find the latest reports on the funds spent.
Requests for help are heard everywhere: emotional posts on social networks, donation boxes in supermarkets, volunteers on the streets. In order not to give their money to fraudsters, to help better through large charities. They are professionals in the field of charity, who know who needs help, and know how to provide it systematically, not targeted. Think about who you would like to help - seriously ill children, elderly people living alone or orphans, and find a suitable organization.
Funds are regularly accountable for the money spent, and publish the results of their activities, so they are easier to check for fraud than a random person on the Internet. To do this, go to the official website of the organization, and see information about money spent. Alert, if no reviews available, or they have not been published.
If you have never engaged in charity work, start with small regular translations. For example, recently "Sitimobil" and "Welcome of Mail.ru," launched the project "good kilometers"To give people the opportunity to make donations when paying for taxi rides. It's easy and does not take much time and money is definitely going to charity.
To participate in the "good kilometers"Book a taxi through the app" Sitimobil ". You choose how much money to give to charity: 3, 5, 7, 10, or 25% of the cost of the trip.
On the project website you can see how many "good kilometers," customers "Sitimobil" has already presented the funds. The more routes and donations, the more streets painted on interactive map Moscow.
At the end of the project "Sitimobil" will choose the good district of the capital. Anyone who has made at least one donation, get a discount on a trip out of the area during the month.
To start it was easier for the first five visits "Sitimobil" gives a 10% discount on the promotional code SITIHAKER*.
Price: Free
Price: Free
But it is only a few rubles. Is will benefit from such small payments?
Short: charity - this is not about large payments and about a lot of small but regular. If 20 million people are likely to translate ruble a month, the fund will collect 20 million per month and 240 million rubles a year.
Do not wait for the perfect moment to start helping - it does not require a lot of free money or huge profits. Connect the small but regular avtoplatezhi. For example, translate to 10 rubles in two-three funds whose activities are close to you.
Regular transfers to help charities better calculate the budget and allocate resources efficiently. For example, if you know that 1 million donors lists of 10 rubles each month, the fund counts on 120 million rubles at the end of the year, and may advance to make an order for the supply of equipment from abroad.
And there are those who do not need help?
Short: Yes. It is not always sincere desire to help is a boon for those who need help.
- Do not give money to the homeless and beggars in the street. Sometimes it's just crooks, sometimes - the people who really need it. If so, it is better to ask than to help: buy food and hot tea to warm clothes or to find accommodation.
- Do not transfer money to strangers in social networks. Most of the posts for help - it hands of swindlers. They can distribute someone's appeal on his own behalf, adding their own details to transfer funds. In addition, people often collect money for treatment without consulting doctors. It may be ineffective and do not give results.
- Do not repost if you do not believe in the honesty of the author. Even if the post is written, "Help! Urgent! "Check the facts and do not let emotions take precedence over reason. If you want to help with the dissemination of information, do repost records of charitable funds, which are not in doubt.
I can help businesses and personal participation, not money?
Short: Yes. If you have the desire and free time, offer to help charities and do good deeds themselves.
Such actions are appreciated not less than donations, - funds are always short of workers. There are many options: drop off a patient to the hospital to deliver the goods, to help with the development of the site, take photos of children from the orphanage, organize an event, provide legal assistance. People in hospices, orphanages and nursing homes do not have enough of a living human communication, so that they will be happy, if you will just come to visit or write them letters.
In addition, it is possible to do good deeds yourself: give blood to help a lonely grandmother, who lives next door, or give unwanted clothes to a charity shop.
How to become a volunteer?
Short: Decide who you want to help, find the fund and find out what help is needed.
It is not possible to help everyone at once. You want to communicate with the children at the hospice, walking their dogs from a shelter to help medical personnel in the care of seriously ill patients, to extinguish fires or to become a mentor of a child from the orphanage? You should be nice to do good deeds. If you choose not to exercise the soul, there is a chance it will soon abandon.
When to determine the direction, get a profile fund or organization. Find out which tasks need volunteers and at what time. If the schedule of events does not coincide with your work schedule, help will not work.
Be prepared to travel to the other end of the city and spend a few hours on weekends. Volunteering although voluntary activity, but requires responsibility. You can not just come and do what he had promised - you hover others. If you're not sure you can handle, start small - small good deeds or the same regular donations.
* The promotion is valid in Moscow, Moscow Region, Yaroslavl, Samara, Tolyatti and Kazan only when ordering through the mobile application. Organizer: "City-Mobil". Location: 117997, Ul. Architect Vlasov. 55. BIN: 1097746203785. The duration of the action - from 03.07.2019 on 31.12.2019. Details of the organizers of the action, on the rules of its conduct can be found on the website of the organizer at www.city-mobil.ru.